The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-03-31
BY G. w. BROWN & co.

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are young and growing finely, FIVE or 81,
IN hill, looking so fresh and vigorous
it does seem almost wasteful to pull ou
half or more but spare them not, if yor
want good corn, melons, beets, dc.
In going to new country, take no nice
articles of the furniture, crockery, OF
glass kind. Fine clothing, jewelry, mu
sical instruments, and what silver-wart
you can afford, you might as well have
there as elsewhere; if they give you
pleasure here, | am sure they would there
but take nothing that is easily broken, Oh
requires tight dry rooms to preserve it in
for it will cause you more trouble thar
pleasure, as the care of it is SO great.
Take plenty of the common dry goods
blankets, sheetings, shirtings, and
goods for common clothing, and such tools
of good quality as you may have on
hand, or can get very cheap: for you car
get all such things as tools and hardware
stoves and farming implements, as cheap
on the Mississippi river, at and above st
Louis, as this side of the mountains.
A hand-mill, too, would be an excel
lent article to take; for sometimes you
can get corn and wheat when and where
you cannot get flour or meal.
If possible. every adult. person should
also take small canvas house, or tent
say six by twelve feet, so constructed that
it can be easily tied up. 1t should be
good and strong, so that one can sleep
and keep their clothing and other per-
sonal matters in it. Where a company
or large family are together, these little
houses would be very desirable, especi-
ally to those who have been accustomed
to have separate rooms, and it is partic-
ularly desirable where there are both
sexes, which, if possible, should be the
case, as this seems to be the natural
course; and what is natural, l reckon
must be about right / do not approve
of the plan of having men go out and
live in the wilds alone, without females.
| see many reasons against it, and none
in favor of such an unnatural course.
No; let mans help-meet 90 with him and
share in the tolls and pleasures of erect
ing new home, which are neither few
nor need be particularly disagreeable
A large tent, too, think would be an
excellent thing for company or several
families to take, especially should they be
going SO far out that lumber could not be
had conveniently. Tent-cloth would al
ways be useful until fairly worn out,
should it last until you had built good
houses and barns. and even after that, fol
covering threshed grain, and to erect in
harvest-felds for shelter. By the way,
| am surprised that tents are not more
used now for this very purpose in the
settled parts of the West. l do think il
would be matter of health and econo-
my.
A good strong tent or canvas house
would answer some time for a dwelling.
should prefer it in many respects to an
ordinary log house, which, of all human
habitations that have ever seen or had
anything to do with, is the least desira-
bic, and about one of the hardest and
most expensive in constructing, especially
if made neat and comfortable In short,
| would try every conceivable way oi
building before would use logs. The
reasons are unanswerable, and almost in
Vulnerable, why l would do it.
l have had some experience in this
manner of building, and perhaps, after
all that | could say, you would not be
satisfied but by learning the same way.
Ii so, go ahead; you may be satisfied
with the result. There are many, doubt
less, who do like log cabins, but were !
now going West, l would sooner take a
canvas house, or perhaps several small
ones or rooms, that could be securely tied
together to light frame. For large
tent or house, it seems to me that the hex
agon form would be economical and COM
Portable; one of thirtysix feet in dame
ter would contain seven rooms, six around
the seventh central one, and not foot OF
waste canvas or room. | would use no
waterproof or fire-proof preparation on
the canvas, as it causes it to crack, and
makes it much heavier; consequently, it
will not last as long, and adds materially
to the expense. Should your canvas not
be thick enough to keep out wet and cold,
line or double it. By all means take all
kinds of fruit-seeds or stones, especially
should you 60 out to tie border of civil
ization; and whatever else you neglect,
do not neglect them. Put them in the
ground at the proper time, and watch
them with care, as health and wealth will
flow to you from their culture and use.
Just heed what am now saying, and act
up to it: don't say, My neighbor is going
largely into the business, and viii supply
us ALL Don't leave this matter to your
neighbor, any more than you would to
supply your daily wants; for should he
go into the business, there will be room
enough for you and him too.
A few quarts of fruit-seeds, properly
attended to, viii lay the foundation of q
fortune in any new country where fruit
viii grow. Had l followed the advice
which now give you when first went
West, might now have been sitting un-
der my own trees and vines, with an
abundance around me. instead of being
a poor wandering journeyman mechanic,
without home or trees, except hired ones.
After having bought your land, look
around for berry bushes and vines. Set
out all you can of those, and with good
care they viii soon furnish you the most
desirable, healihful. and consequently
important food you and your family can
have, especially if eaten in their natural
state, and fully ripe.
l hardly think one could get sick, il
good ripe strawberries, raspberries, and
bIackberries, with good coarse bread,
were their main articles of food in the
summer months. Especially if they did
not work too hard in the hot sun, and were
correct and regular in all other habits.
Use no milk with fruits, and the least
of il YOU use the better. am confident
that its almost universal use at the West
is one of the main causes of the bilious
diseases which are said to be so preva-
lent there, but which, by the way, are
probably not near so numerous IS eastern
people suppose; but whatever there are