The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-02-09
THE PIONEER.
AGRICULTUR RAJ,
Plans Laid i'm Winter.

PIanS LaIO III WIuteEs
There are many of the smaller, but al
most Indispensable conveniences of g
farm, that are scarcely ever all present
in one establishment; many, indeed, be.
ing destitute of them, and the best farms
being perhaps deficient in few. The
farmer has leisure in winter to look oyer
these deficiencies, and may often either
supply them at this season, or make par,
tial provision for them, or lay his plans fol
securing 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 OWL
hands, in winter.
Every farm should have good road OF
lane from the barn-yard to every field, SC
that loads Of manure or grain may not be
redrawing across meadow or corn-feld
nor cattle need driving, to pasture through
a wheat-feld
The fences should be so good that cat
tie may never de 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 con-
sumed in driving out depredators and in
patching up the imperfect boundary
Difficulties between neighbors from intru-
sive animals will perhaps be recollected
by somewhere good fence has proved
defence--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. Or if only one is built, a
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 feet
square (1O0 So. ft.) of in order that no
rain-water may be lost, and which is at
least five times as capacious as cisterns
are commonly made. Such would save
much trouble in times of severe drouth.
Every farm, besides barn and dwell
ling, should be furnished with tool
house, agon-house, workshop, corn
house, granary, smoke house, manure
shed, cattle sheds, poultry house, a good,
neatly made and neatly kept piggery, a
neat vegetable cellar, fruit cellar, a
straw-barn, a business office, clothes
drying alley, large root cellar, and lastly,
bat by no means the least in Importance,
neat, will-paiuted, (both internally and
externally, } and nicely kept orivies, so ar
ranged as to be kept inodorous by frequent
applications of ashes, lime-dust, dried
peat, saw-dust or charcoal, kept in a flat,
water tight, gas-tarred box, placed on
runners, SO as to be drawn off FREQUENT
ly by horse, and empied.
Besides the foregoing, the good kitchen
garden must not be forgotten, to be we'll
supplied with the smaller fruits, currants,
strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries,
and dwarf pears, as well as with the
finest early, medium, late and winter veg
etables; nor the neat door-yard lawn, iu- |
dlclously and tastefully planted with or
namental trees and shrubs; and occupy
ing not merely the front of the dwelling,
but extending ON each side, SO that the
occupant may not be frightened if the
casual visitor chances to cast glance on
any other side of the house than the efront
The well planted and we'll cultivated Or
chard, for supplying fresh fruit the year
round to the table and kitchen, as well as
for market, viii suggest itself to every in
1eiligent farmer at the present remarkable
'ruit planting and fruit eatingera.-Co Coun-
'ry Gent.