The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-03-01
Plans Laid in Winter.

There are many of the smaller, but
almost indispensable conveniences of
farm, that are scarcely ever all present in
one establishment; many, indeed, being
destitute Of them, and the best farms be-
ing perhaps deficient in few. The farmer
has leisure in winter to look over these
deficiencies, and may often either supply
them at this season, or make partial pro-
vision for them, or lay his plans for secur-
ing them in summer.
For ExAMPLE.-Every farmer should
have gates for entering the fields instead
OF bars. Some farmers are sufficiently
ingenious to make these with their own
hands, in winter.
Every farm should have good road
or lane from the barn-yard to every field,
so that loads of manure or grain may not
be drawn across meadow or corn.
field, nor cattle need driving to pasture
through q wheat-feld.
The fences should be so good that cat
tie may never be tempted nor learned to
jump, that crops may not be trodden
down by intruders, nor valuable animals
foundered; and that the urgent time Of
the farmer in harvest may not be consumed
in driving out depredators and in patch.
ing up the imperfect boundary. Difficult
ties between neighbors from instructive
animals will perhaps be recollected by
some,-where a good fence has proved a
de fence-a bad one an ofense.
A capacious wood-house, for the thor.
ough seasoning Of at least one years
fuel is Indispensable. Two. for one year
each are better, one to be filing while the
other is emptying. Orif only one is built,
door should be placed at each end, so
that the dry may be taken out at one door,
while the green is carried in at the other
Capacious rain-water cisterns should
be provided for all the principal buildings,
so that there may be room for at least
five hogsheads Of water for every ten feel
square 100 So. h.) in order that no
rain water may be lost, and which is al
least five times as capacious as cisterns
are commonly made. Such would save
Every farm, besides barn and dwell.
| ling, should be furnished with tool ol-house
wagon-house, workshop, courthouse, gra
nary, smoke house, manure-shed. cattle.
sheds, poultry. house, good, neatly made
and neatly kept piggery, neat vegetable
cellar, fruit cellar, straw-barn, busi.
ness office. clo,hes-drying alley, a large
root cellar. and lastly, but by no means
the least in Importance, neat, well-painted
(bo,h internally and externally and nice.
| ly kept privies, so arranged as to be KEEP
inodorous by frequent applications Of ash
es, lime dust, dried peat, saw-dust or char
coal. kept in fiat. wafer tight. gas-tsrred
box. placed on runners, so as to be drawn
off frequently by horse, and empiied.
Besides the foregoing. the good kitchen
garden must not be forgotten, te be wei
supplied with the smaller fruits, currants
strawberries, raspberries, gooseberres and
dwarf pears. as well as with the fines
early, medium, late and winter vegetables
nor the neat door.yard lawn, judiciously
and tastefully planted with ornamental
trees and shrubs; and occupying not mere
ly the front of the dwelling, but extend
ing OF each side, SO that the occupan
may not be frightened if the casual visito
chances TO cast glance on any othe
side of the house than the front. The
well planted and we'll cultivated orchard
for supplying fresh fruit the year rount
to the table and kitchen, as we'll as 70
1 market, will suggest itself to every in
telligent farmer at the present remarkable
fruit-planting and fruit.eating era Coun
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