The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-30
IFrom the Evening Post.l
The Farmer at Home.

The farmer who has place for
everything, and keeps it snugly,
neatly there, must be happy far
mcr. When he wants a thing,
whether the paint thrush or the saw,
he know where to find it, he gets it
without loss of time, without aggra-
vation, and without light at night
he knows just where it is, sort of
a pocket where he needs but his
hands to get it. Thus he has many
pockets about him. His tools are all
in one, each in its place, and each
place the handiest fif possible for
the tools to be used, or better, in
the place were used. So is the eel
lar arranged-different compart-1
ments and different things in the
same compartments. He knows,
and not only he, but the housewife
and the children where to get what
is, wanted and that without. light
ing a candle. And this cellar is fre-
quently visited. 1t is place that it
is desired to be in, clean and fresh
with good smells-smells that you
know are clean, and everything
looking clean. Here is the larder,
plenty and of everything, and not
to much; canned fruits of various
kinds; you look at it every time
you pass it with recognition of its
quality, and thought of summer.
Apples, if you have no fruit room,
are good in the cellar. We love to
see them there. They give there
fragrance to the place. They make
you provide the proper air-neither
too damp or to dry neither to warm
nor too cold; but colder in some
departments (where the fruit is
wanted for spring, the room above
unwarrned) and warmer where you
want fruit for immediate use. The
butter is also in the cold depart
ment SO are the cream and milk,
and the sauces, and many things
which no one knows better where
they ought to be than the house
wife, who will be found singing
through the range of the cellar, and
her daughter initiating her in this
respect, and in many respects. Is
it not healthy just what you don't
find in cellars generally, which the
sooner you get out of the better,
and you never stand on the hint.
But do not make. parlor of your
cellar jet it. still be a cellar. And
let the chamber be chamber-if
there is chamber, and not all cut
up into rooms. Itshould be place
where one desires to be for an hour
or two with his work, especially in
summer, when upper rooms are
pleasantest. But the garret, t,-that
is sacred we will leave that to the
children and the grandame. The
kitchen, what shall we say of this
why only that it is of a piece with
the rest-a place that one delights
to dwell in-so that the whole house
is such a place with it's various com
partments-the barn the same, the
stables-aye, the stables, and the
| wood house, wagon house, vel
house (if out-doors). We have
mentioned all except the unmention
able, the pig-pen. But go there
A. kid-glove writer (Shelton) comes
down, and owns that "there is az
indescribable pleasure in looking
into pig pens" A neat pig penis
that possible !? Has the reader new
er seen one? He has seen somt
pleasant pens, he must own, for /:
pig, give it a chance, will show
neatness. The rest then falls upol
you. We have known some pig
pens to be positively inviting, no
only for the sleek porlzers in them
but the sickness otherwise as wei
l-roominess, airiness, cleanliness
There is no necessity for having
your pen swill- -bedaubed, odorou
with rank smells. There is yet suf
ficient earth to use to absorb til,
gases and to benefit you. There il
no need in havinga bad pig-pen, NJ
more than to have bad horse
stable. Last, a dry, clean site 70
the premises This will make i
healthy as well as pleasant. 1t i
the only thing that will make a hom
for rational man. Dogs and ir
rational men have kennels and dirt
premises; that is their home