The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-18
Farm Buildings.

It is a question which is the most rig.
orou5 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 the
most unusual cold of winter in prefer
ence to the heat of q July sun in the
open field, the kitchen, the stable, the
yard and the uasheltered pasture, when
the thermometer stands Gin the nine
ties" in the night as 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
summer aspect in which these may be
viewed which is by no means unworthy
Of consideration. The cold of winter
sharpens and invigorates healthy per-
son and q robust animal, stimulating
the appetite and causing healthful
activity of the circulation. So long as!
sufficient protection is afforded to the
body to prevent undue draft upon the;
vitality the vital functions 60 on with
out difficulty in even the low tempera-
lures of the polar regions, where the:
cold is so great that no known instru-.
ment is able to measure it. But the
exhaQsting effects of great heat are we'll
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 tho great
est interest. .-
First let us call attention to the farE>.
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
tensiied 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 a 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 ventilat0r and will
furnish an escape for the heated air and
the odors from the cooking store or
range, while the narrow window admits
Sufficient light without letting in the
glazing sunshine too plentifully. 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 a room SO exposed in
the winter, while it is impossible to
make room cool in suR,mer that is ex-
posed to the MONDAY sun and has fire
in it. The kitchen, too. should be pro-
tccted by q 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 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 50 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
win be further protection against the
sun up to noon, and if the Kitchen is
recessed or thrown back a few feet from
the rest of the house the main entrance
may be placed here. leaving small
vestibule in which the front kitchen
doorway opens. Or this might be made
the rear door of broad hail or passage
through the house. But at this time it
it not our object to DISCUSS the farm
house ut further length than in refer
ence to the kitchen, which at this sea-
son is of more than ordinary interest to
the farm housewife. Henry Stewart, in
~ y Times.