. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. red with slate, with a boiler for heating hog-food, a cold bath supplied by the mill stream, for giving an oc-casional swill to the young pigs. In this building a number ofhogs are fatted on dairy refuse, boiled roots or vegetables,pulse, ground barley or bran, supplied bv the mill near athand. At some distance above is the stack-vard and bams,whiTe
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. red with slate, with a boiler for heating hog-food, a cold bath supplied by the mill stream, for giving an oc-casional swill to the young pigs. In this building a number ofhogs are fatted on dairy refuse, boiled roots or vegetables,pulse, ground barley or bran, supplied bv the mill near athand. At some distance above is the stack-vard and bams,whiTe a powerful threshing-machine is worked by the samestream that afterwards supplies the garden, and turns the cornmill in the f;urm-vard. 4. Occupation. Farms oral] sizes, fmm twentv-five to .WOacres; 1795. Some very good cottages with gardens,and containing comfortable and commodious accommodationfor agricultural or luring operatives. A specimen of oneis given [Jig. 10O2.),which contains a living-room(.i), workingor lodging room ;/• , pantn, dairy, cellar,&c. (c),cow-house id),with a water closet, and three bedrooms over. I-eases generallygranted for twenty-one years. Little made by farming unless1002. with a combination of all, or most of the following circum-Btani eB— First,an easy rent; second, a pretty good and .farm ; third, economy and industry ; and fourth, length of the present system of finning, at a moderate rent, the writerof this knows from experience, that it requires ! onlj the rnosl diligent industry, but also the most prudential economy , . To which Mai1 41 1 have rat. Is fiuiid a farmer making a fortune by his profes* *ii alone, on fresh land, on virgin marsh, old . grostnd,ancient slwep-walk,or well soiled commen; a fortune, I mean, any way resembling that which, with the same abilityand industry, and with a small share of the outset capita!he would have been making by trade, manu
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