American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-20

1t is question which is the most rig
orous season the middle of the sum
mer, with its torrid heats, or the depth
of winter, with its penetrating cold.
| Doubtless the farmer his family, his
hired men and his live stock, if all
could be consulted, would choose tho
most unusual cold of winter in prefer
encc to the heat of II July sun in the
| open field, the kitchen, the stable, the
| yard and the unshcltcrcd pasture, when
the thermometer stands lin the nine
ties" in the night rs well as the day,
and although most persons think only
| of winter and its fierce winds and DRIFT
ing SHOWS when their attention is called
| to the farm buildings, yet there is Il
summer aspect in which these may he
viewed which is by no means unworthy
of consideration. The cold OF winter
sharpens and invigoratcs healthy per-
son and robust animal, stimulating
the appetite and causing Il hcalthful
activity of the circulation. So long rs
sufficient protection is afforded to the
body TO prevent undue draft upon the
vitality the vital functions 90 on with
out difficulty in even the low tempera-
lures of the polar regions, where tho
cold is SO great that no known instru-
ment is able to measure it. But the
cNhausting effects of great heat are well
known, and when to these are added
the plague of flies and the usual impu-
rity, not to say filthiness, of stables and
yards. the tax upon the forbearance of
the farmer and his animals is extreme.
1t is Just now, in fact, that the truly
convenient structure and arrangement
of farm buildings become of the great
est interest.
1t g. a
kitchen, for it is here that the most Sc
rious Inconvenience are suffered when
the arrangements are not as they
should be. The disagreeable and in
furious effects of the weather are in
tensified in the ill arranged hot farm
kitchen, where the most exacting do
nestle labor is performed, and where
the housewife spends the greater part
of her working hours. 1t would be too
long a task to describe what many
farm kitchens are; let us rather suG-
gest what they should be.
The farm kitchen should be the piv-
otal Part of the house. The farmer de-
string convenient dwelling should
first plan out the kitchen and then add
the rest of the house to it. 1t should
be roomy; the ceiling should be high;
the windows long and narrow rather
than short and broad, because the high
window is the best ventlatOr and will
furnish an escape for the heated air and
the odors from the cooking store or
rance, while the narrow window admits
sufficient light without letting in the
glaring sunshine too p!entifully. Out
side, the windows should be shaded
with blinds, and at this season hood
of some kind might be attached to it if
exposed greatly to the sun. But the
kitchen should be on the northeast cor
ner of the house the coolest part
which is convenient in the summer and
unObjectiOnable in the winter, because
it is easy to warm n room SO exposed i'll
the winter, while it is impossible to
make a room cool in summer that is cx-
posed to the MONDAY sun and has fire
in it. The kitchen, too. should be pro-
tected by 4 summer attachment in
which the cooking and washing may be
done. The windows of this place may
be taken out in summer and closed
only by blinds. and in the winter this
room will serve as n storage room for
fuel and for protecting the kitchen from
the storms and blasts and drifting
SHOWS. The pump may also be put in
this outer room; indeed. its purposes
and services will be found {" too numer-
Gus to mention" The kitchen win
dows and doors should be protected by
screens of mosquito netting to keep out
the flies and yet admit the air. a broad
porch over the east side of the kitchen
will be Il further protection against the
sun up TO noon, and if the Kitchen is
recessed or thrown back n few feet from
the rest of the house the main entrance
may be placed here. leaving a small
vestibule in which the front kitchen
doorway opens. Or this might be made
the rear door of n b DAD hail or passage
through the house. But at this time it
il not our object to DISCUSS the farm
house at further length than in refer
cnce to the kitchen, which at this sea-
son is of more than ordinary interest to
the farm housewife. Henry SteOart, in
NJ Y. Times.