Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-11-17

| stool, by just two-thirds. The table for a
! new iarm, would suggest. should be a
| barrel tor severals reasons, a salt barrel
| open end up, with a board across the ton !:
this is what we term frontier extension table
the longer the board, the more extended
The inner recess of the table can be used as
wardrobe, cupboard, etc wherein NAV
De Kept extra clothing, and surplus COM
mlssary stores, away from the MICE and by
hugglng your knees around the barrel.
when eating. you will be enabled to
manage the stool with greater facility.
| TN plate and cup, with horn-handlei
knife and fork, tin dish and spoon with
which to handle the pork and gravy, should
ordinarily, complete the table ware for g
new farm, unless, as before remarked, the
! proprietor happens TO be somewhat fore
handed, IN which case a tin sugar bowl
might consistently be added, and possibly
paper box-a chip, followed out. Will an
swer Tor salt cellar All the supplies
necessary to fair start. is a hundred
weight OF pork a barrel of flour, barrel of
salt.the same Of vinegar-to eat with
greens and peck of beans in case
the proprietor Is foIehanded, however, he
misht increase the quantity of salt and
vinegar, and add half pound of pepher and
nutmeg or two-the two latter W ith a CUP
oil Drown sugar, to be served up only in
case OF company.
Ihe next duty Of the proprietor of a new
larm on the frontier is to kill a coon
this Will wake him up to a sense of offensive
and defensive operations, and prepare him,
mentally and physically. Tor any emergency
mat may arse, and make him available in
case he should need himself sometime on a
short call but the main object to be attained
IN klIling q coon ls,tO get the skin Of the ami
nal T. nail on the door; there Is nothlur
that seems so meet and proper, III this sin
idl world, and nothing that so ornaments
the door Ot house on a new farm. as a
cO0n-skIn artissically stretched and nailed on
the door, hesh-slde out but, best of all.
II Is lucky 1t brings equal prosperity
10 the beginner on a new farm, that a ven
cradle horseshoe, when nailed at the nose
OF steamboat, brings the boat; no
steambOatman. unless he be "a madman or an
educated fool, would start a boat out
without this precaution-no boat which
carried horseshoe has ever vet been sunk,
unless she happened TO strike snag or a
rock and had hole knocked into her, or
met with some other accident.
The proprietor should next proceed 10
tear asuLder the bosom of the virgin soil.
with twenty-five inch plow, hitched to
yoke OF at least moderately stout oxen;
at hrst he may grow impatient to DO too
much ploWlng IN too short time but /
warn him that unless patience Is cultlva-
ted on a new farm there will tie no crop 10
cultivate. If be breakes up fifteen OF six
teen acres day, at hrst-With one yoke of
oxen and twenty-five inch plow-he i
doing iaIr amount Of breaking, consider
ing the motive power employed. He should
'ploW deep while sluggarus sleep''-say
about foot deep. After he has his land
broken up, let him be particular as 10 the
quality and varieties of his seed -"old
seeds are not any more available on a new
farm than they are elsewhere. The variety
OF corn known a. sod corn is best for the
first year : planting. II great variety Of
crops l. desired on a limited area Of ground,
II would be best to mix the seed before SOW
lDg-wheat, rye, barley, buckwheat, fax.
turnlp seed and oats, in equal parts. and
put on about nine bushels Of this mixed
seed TO the acre. The winters being some
what long in this country, the young far
mer can employ himself during the snowy
months in separating his crops and getting
them ready tor the spring market. | would
advise the production Of poultry and pigs
and the propagation OF hickory scrub
booms and beeswax-tO keep up the grocery
and pin money. They are always saleable
wares, and besides the turkeys and chickens
are great on gras-hOppeIs ard bugs a
hundred turkeys will alone sweep dozens
and dozens OF grasshoppers out Of existence
IN a single summer, while chickens are
tangible terror to streaked bugs that infest
cucumber Ylnes-theY should be educated
to discern the 1ererce between the bugs
and the vines, however.