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was very early oats or very small wheat. The latter we
were assured was correct. The sheep were next seen, and
though some of them were large and bearing a heavy
fleece of wool, they all looked badly as also did the field
where they were kept, a part of said field was limed
but the grass roots the sheep had left did not enable us
to discover its effects. The cattle in the barn yard
looked well, two of the gates to the yard were of little
more use than if there were none, the inside of the barn
was not visited, whether intentionally omitted by our
foreman I can not say. The corn house had a fair
quantity of corn in it for this time of year. Several
sows and some beautiful pigs were seen in a clean
comfortable pen. a pure-bred Berkshire boar and shoat
were also shown us, and looked well. A large iron
boiler with brick furnace and chimney looked very
complete, intended for boiling beef feet etc for feeding
the hogs and getting the oil. A dumb waiter at the
ice-house, we were told was entirely satisfactory last
Summer. The garden was in good order. two long
rows of raspberries looked very fine, the earth drawn up
around the canes to hold them up, instead of stakes.
What was said about the wheat we first saw should
have been reserved for the field in view from the garden
as I do not feel equal to the task of doing it justice, will
only say if there had been more care in drilling it the late
cold Spring would have been more merciful to its
appearance. On returning to the house the minutes
of last meeting were read and the Committies on hay,
crows and stock called for but having no report to
make were continued. Our host read an article
from the Country Gentleman on the cost of a pound