. Rapport . l-ig. loS. L farm Cotswold Fig. 109. J. L. Lemires laiiu.—Buildings. 389 The part situated on the top of the hill is of poor quality and cut upby deep gorges, which are prejudicial to the working of the land ; theremainder is formed of Lake St. Peter alluvium and apart from a lewpeaty pieces sometimes flooded in the spring, gives a soil of greatfertility. Mr. Lemires general system of tillage, which has a fodder basis withdairy cattle, is good, but his rotation did not seem to us to be regularenough. The division, however, is sufficiently good. The farm buildings
. Rapport . l-ig. loS. L farm Cotswold Fig. 109. J. L. Lemires laiiu.—Buildings. 389 The part situated on the top of the hill is of poor quality and cut upby deep gorges, which are prejudicial to the working of the land ; theremainder is formed of Lake St. Peter alluvium and apart from a lewpeaty pieces sometimes flooded in the spring, gives a soil of greatfertility. Mr. Lemires general system of tillage, which has a fodder basis withdairy cattle, is good, but his rotation did not seem to us to be regularenough. The division, however, is sufficiently good. The farm buildings (V. fig. 109, pi. 18) are numerous enough and thebarn-stable especially is built on a modern plan, although there are somedefects in the frame-work. Mr. Lemire owns a silo and practises theensilage of Indian corn. His stock of implements and treatment of hismanures merited the highest points. Mr. Lemire has removed all the stones on the surface of the soil thatTvere in the way ; he has spread the earth thrown out of the ditches,levelled hills and mou
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