Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

uncomfortable and inconvenient part Of it,
would in few years pay the extra expense
that thorough built house would cost, while
the latter during all these years would be
far more enjoyable by all concerned. Too
much like manufacturing garments from poor
and cheap material costing just as much for
thread, buttons and labor as for the more
substantial and higher priced goods, and in
which there is no economy to rich or poor.
like the plan of building house that is
proof against vermin, which is easily done
without much extra expense. Instead of
frame as is the common custom, have your
lumber sawed into stats l-2 by or inch
es, which may be of cheap material, answer
ing every purpose in this case. After placing
sills on foundation, begin to lay on stats SIS
above mentioned, breaking joints each time
and the same with the partitions to all the
rooms, mailing them sufficiently strong until
high enough for your overlays. After they
are all laid in their proper place continue to
slat between them and SO on above until COM
pleted, making one Of the most substantial
and comfortable houses that our farmers can
have, and always free from those pests that
annoy so many dwellings among the farming
community generally One of the houses on
my own farm is built after the above plan,
and has ever been free from rats and mice
until this day, while in the other house we
have suffered great annoyance aud damage.
In connection With the house, the ice-house,
though thought by some to be Of minor inn
portance, is In many instances OF valuable
consequence, and may be safely reckoned
among the necessities of the dairy product.
No family should be without it that has a
dairy, unless they have very cold spring Of
water handy to the milk-room and even
then Ice may be used to advantage, especial
ly with those using the Jewett pan land by
the way would highly recommend those
pans to all our farmers, believing them to be
a success, both in labor-saving and in guam
tity and quality of butter) l think one
great fault with our milk-rooms is in the
temperature not being even and sufficiently
cool. With little care and by using ice il
may be remedied to some extent and with SO
trifing expense that it need hardly be reck-
oned.
In speaking of other farm buildings you
will please allow me to speak only from my
own experience, which is said to be our best
teacher, and rely not merely upon observa
tion, and then as before l leave you to dis
play your own taste aud fancy, regardless o
what l may say upon the subject. In 1861
built me horse barn 2S 40, at cos
of 1926. 1t would cost to-day nearly dOubl
that amount, as all kinds of material ther
were very low, nails being less than $500 pc
cwt. and other things in proportion. NJ
plan was to double board and cleat the mai
body of the barn, having basement or eel
lar under the whole barn. This basemen
was double boarded on the front side an
south end, the opposite side aud north en-
being walled with embankment of earth u
nearly to level with the sill. In said base
E mcut have my hog.pen with several apart
monts, with conveniences for changing tn
, swine from one to the other at my leisure
also swill-room with large farmers boile
set for the convenience of the hog family
with potato cellar in rear corner where
can drop my potatoes down from the uppe
room with little trouble. In the hog apart
ment laid plank floor over the whole spac
that was to be occupied by the manure, lay
ing it fiat upon the ground after scraping tn
earth to perfect level That floor to-day
after having been laid eleven and one-hal
: years, is to all appearance as sound as tn
day it was laid, being exposed but very littl
A.. of the time to the air. The manure from tn
stable drops directly through the floor int
the manure pit below, and muck as often q
needed is drawn into the upper room an
dropped through the same scuttle into tn
, manure pit where the swine, as their wonte
! custom is, spend much of their leisure tim
in roofing and overturning the entire mas
!, searching for pearls, or for what is to thel
Of equal value and that they search not i
:. vain, handful of corn thrown into the mi
nuro new and then may not be amiss.
The great advantage Of this barn is tn
comfort Of my horses, which | never have
blanket at all, aud the benefit of the manur
i. from horses. hogs, and muck being all tho
4 oughly worked together. This is of the fir
quality, and its increased value over that
the old barn where manure was all throw
!. out of doors to be drenched in the storm,
:. heat and mould and burn until it becan
nearly worthless, pays me more than II p'
i. cent on the money the barn cost, and l Nigh
add per cent. more and be safe. So | 50
/, that instead Of being extravagant in THROWN
aside the old barn and building new, it wa
grand economy, besides the comfort and col
4. venience of a warm barn for my horses al
. an everyday satisfaction to myself.
d In 1865 built me corn barn at an e,
pense of $3.50, l6 %, with posts runniT
d three feet below the sill, encirced with 1
70 just below the sill for protection against mic
# l boarded and cleated the north side and bot
AZ ends of the barn, and on the south side Fl
!; cribs, l used q inch Stats with an open spa'
4. Of I inch. My grain bins l planed al
.e matched, and in each apartment are opening
I. of y or 3 feet space with boards 6tte
d marked and numbered, to be inserted at Il
a. top and slide downward as they are needle
Is Thus it wo please we may enclose each apar