Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-05-02
FARMERS PREMISES-4A CON.
TRAST.


4, contrasts in farm management which
cannot fail to arrest attention. At
one point will be encountered a
'' farm dwelling and it's Surroundings
SO admirable in all their arrange
ments as to inspire a wish to make
the acquaintance of the owner
The site Of such a home was not
/, chosen in low, marshy or depress-
ed place, because a spring chanced
to bubble up there, but reference
was had to aridity of soil and airi
ness Of position, afrordng ample
opportunity for cellar and other
drainage. The dwelling, tasteful,
commodious, butnot ornate, is not
crowded upon the highway, but is
sufficiently removed from it to afford
space for a neat front yard, enliven-
ed and rendered cheerful by judi
cious intermingling of shrubbery
and fruit-bearing trees. The grounds
are properly graded, and the way
or avenue leading to tie dwelling
so formed as to allow ready access
to it at all times without wading in
mud or filth. The domicil is always
kept in order and never allowed to
grow dingy for want of paint, or
dilapidated for the lack of repairs.
Internally its arrangements and as
poets generally eyince equal judg-
ment, taste and care, for it almost
invariably proves true that, what
the man is to the farm and its sur
roundings, the wife is in Ter pecu-
liar domain, the house.
But a home, however tasteful as
TO mouse and lawn, is incomplete
without a liberal allotment Of ground
for gardening purposes, Much Of !
the domestic comfort of a family is L
derived from the products Of the
garden, hence the importance Of
rendering it capable of producing y
the greatest variety Of fruits and +
vegetables. These provided for, a )
taste for the merely ornamental and
the beautiful may well be induleed :
as conducive alike to health and in 5
tellectual development Il
The other farm buildings should Il
be suitably placed and so arranged r
as to be easily accessible and suited "
to the uses for which they are i'll u u
tended. There is room here as in ~
the case Of the dwelling, for the ex- - -
ercise Of good taste in the matter ~
of form and convenience of inter ~ -,
nal arrangement. There should be y
no dilapidation about them. The "
should always be in or "
der, so that animals confded to ~
their custody, may be forthcoming ~
when wanted. Everything should j,
oetoken order There should be .''
olace for all kinds Of farm nipple III
nents secure from the weather, and wv
eady at all times for use. III
Fences should" be seasonably re- le
,aired and kept in order till all y
nance Of damage to crops from {"
Gaming stock is cut off by the adj "o a..
'ent Of winter These are a few of 'i'
he features pertaining to good
and which cannot be lost lli'
light Of without disorder and loss. lll'
Not remote from this place of or Az "
Ter and thrift-possibly adjoining A9
t-may be seen d farm Of another III
description. The dwelling is loca- my
ed amid filth and the debris of de- III
aging matter No airy yard and 'l'"
INVITING avenue leads to its portals
There are no vestiges Of shrubbely
II fruit bearing trees near it. If ~
'aint was ever applied TO it, all ira -
es of it have disappeared, leaving
Drowned by age and the pelting Fri
# storms. Boards and shingles ,Jul
re detaching themselves here and day
here; window lights, long since be
roken are replaced by old hats and ton
ilapidated wearing apparel; doors Co,
re shaking and swaying about on pre
single hinge, or lying upon the tb;
round The out buildings are in U,ii
eeping with the house-all are out I1a
repair and falling to ruin. A biti
agon with broken wheel, repos- tiol
) in one place; plow eaten with If q
1st, with the woodwork broken, y.
another; a hoe here and shov- cues
therein fact, nothing is as it MN
lould be-nothing where it ought
be. Going into the dwelling, .
G find, ninety-nine times in the >
lndred, like filth and disorder prev Of s
ent there. Receding from the is Il
,use to the fields, we find the lat SAN,
r without fences, drains choked '''-
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