Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-01-13

BAnN-noLD EcoNomY. Don't be fright
ered, ladies'. The barn is an important
appeudage to the farm and It's neat and tidy
arrangement essential to the comfort of the
cows and other cattle, and to those who
make the butter and cheese. II the thrifty
farmer keeps his barn in as ample order as
The tidy housewife does her kitchen. nobody
need TURN up his nose at the odor from the
barn. Every thing about both should SAVIOR
OF tnrIlt and neatness. The location and
construction of the barn is of no irining I'M
pouance. An eye should be had to con-
yenience as well as prolific the comfort
Of the cattle, sheep and horses, and to the
industry Of the pigs,--to the saving Of ma
nure, and the bones aud sinews of the hired
man and boys. Look al them, if YOU please
II Is hayiug time, or harvesting, may hap
the heat up to ninety degrees above zero
ten tons Of hay IN the wiurow, aud an i'm
mediate prospect Of thunder shower
Mercy on us See the cattle the on tongue
How they jump Aud how the fork aud
rake fly, as ifthey had wings 10 goes the
FIRST load with all hands Juggling with
might and main for you see it is going to
rain, and the hay is rather green. If
pitched into the NOW ii viii spoil. It must
60 to the scalold and as near the ridge
pole as possible But it is all up bill work
"a bone-acheing, s.new-streichng bust
ness. The hay must be pitched, lorkiul
after forklu, up as near the third heavens
as an RECONSTRUCTED ihree-story barn will
permit. Tom, Dick, Harry aud the hired
man, are stationed, one above another, like
men in a well, raising the burden from scat
fold to scaGold. How preposlerous Per
NIT US to say, brother iarmers-for we farm
il on a six-by-eighi or scyen-by-nine scale
this is not as II should be. Instead Of COM
peling the hired man and boys, exhausted
with fatigue, to pitch the hay from cellar
to garnet, let Buck aud Briudle and the old
mare draw it there II can be done But
how "Of courlhe," as old Col. Jacob
Davis, the pioneer OF Montpelier, used to
say, "make your kalkiuIaIhun." Be sys-
.ematic, and have an eye to saving in every
thing--be labor-saying in the construction
of your barn, as saving in every thing else
gather up the fragments, that nothing be
lost" Time, and money, and hay, arc often
lost for the want o: ltle care in planning
aud finishing the barn, and IN the location
and construction Of sheds and yards. We
have recently seen what we consider
model barn, It's ia Walden, ia Caledonia
County, where farmers are pretty well post
ed upon barn-hoid economy. The barn is
built on ground gently descending from the
east to the west, and from the public road.
The harvest goes in at the gable end, upon
gently ascending plank road, and from
the cart or wagon the load goes, by the
force Of It's own weight, dorm TO the place
of deposit, for barns, like banks, should
have safe places for discount aud Deposit
from thence the hay or the fodder goes, by
the same force, TO the cribs of the wei-led
and hungry, yet fat, sleek and well-cared for
cattle, in their clean aud comfortable stalls.
From the stalls, dozen goes the ofal 10 the
cellar aud piggery below, where some dozen
or more OF well-eondiuoned members of
the "grunting gentry" are industrously em-
ployed in the capacity of enlerprisng MAN
urAcTURERs, making compost from muck,
straw, aud the droppings and drippiugs of
the cattle He that hath no such barn, let
him raise more potatoes aud hay, and build