The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-05-03

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horse, it ID. all the same to me, only
ask that the eternal fitness of things be
observed and that you get the right
horse in the right place, and have that
regard for him that you can say "My
kingdom for horse" On that farm
OF mine, of course cattle and COWS will
form the principal stock. Whyi Be
cause, unless you make the raising of
horses a speciality, they are the essen
tial thing upon the farm by way of
health, wealth and comfort, and gener-
al utility.
Milk, butter, beef and leather nave
been, and now and ever will be in de-
maud in civilized society. More and
more az the population becomes dense
DO we find the demand increasing for
milk, aud you will observe that in the
large cities, next TO the demand for
water comes the call for milk. You
will some of you remember that last
winter during the two days blizzard
that shut off the milk supply of New
York city that twenty. FIVE cents per
quart was offered for milk in the mar
ket. The time was when the doctors
bled, blistered, gave calomel and iron
in some form to cure or kill or give
strength to their patients. Now they
order milk even in cases of fever
am told that the i'sebriate asylanas,
instead of giving them milk punch and
other stimulants to wean their patients
from the intoxicating cup they give
them pure hot milk. Of course there
is none of us here that need hot neilk
and perhaps | should not have spoken
of it. Butter, pure butter, that OBJ
tanned from the churning of cream, will
always more and more be an article of
demand among our population. Beef
will ever be a prime necessity of the
people of all lands and clmes. For
another reason, "That Farm of Nine
must keep the line of stock indicated
is, that the general fertility of the soil
must be kept up and enhanced from its
own resources. Barnyard manure is
the great fertilizer needed by the
American farmer, with plenty of that
he needs nothing else to enrich his
wasting soil. That farm of mine must
have an abundant supply of fruit both
of the smaller and larger varieties.
Not simply a plant here, a briar. vine
and tree there, in a haphazard way,
but there must be system, and variety
not only for profit, but for beauty and
utility. Flora may bring her garland
of flowers, rich in perfume of the field
and bowers, Ceres may come burdened
by her load of graiu, the rich harvest
of field and plain; but, unless Pomona
comes, the goddess of fruits, with
her offerings from plant, vine and
tree, the feast to me is incomplete.
As the subject of fruits has been or
will be specially discussed by others l
pass from this branch of my subject to
the buildings upon that farm of mine.
The house should be sufficiently large
for comfort, convenience and home
purposes; and, 30 arranged internally
that the greatest amount of heat can
be diffused with the least amount of
fuel burned. 1t has been ascertaiued
by some one who has investigated the
case that .foIr;tfths of the fuel burn
ed goes up the stove pipe; therefore, it
| seems to me very necessary to SO ar
range the house that all this heat may
be utilized. Some people are very
fond of cold sleeping rooms, but for
my part, am partial to warm quart
ers-a warm house. While the farm
house should be large and roomy, or
rather fuU of rooms, it should not be
so large as to make siaves of its occu-
pants. The kitchen should be the
room of the house Around it let
| every other room revolve--let that be
the centre. Every farm house should
| be built so that in it there may be a
hospital room or two, connected, yet
separate from the living part of the
house. To that end every room should
be connected by doors for the conve-
nience of the occupants and the gene
r.l diffusion of heat. The outbulld-
ings, such as summer cookhouse, coal,
wood, and other necessary outbuild.-
ings should be all connected and under
roof, so that the aged, infirm, and all
may enjoy the greatest amount of pos
sibe convenience. The cellar should
be the largest and best room in the
house, aud in it should start all the
hues or chimneys of the honse.
The barn should be a bank barn,
large and roomy, thirty-six feet wide,
and after You get it forty feet long,
then add one foot for every acre of
cultivated land, and you have about
the right proportion for the average
farm. There must be sufficient shed
room for straw and corn-fodder. On a
farm where one hundred acres are cul-
tlvated should require storage capa-
city of one hundred tons. A barn
thirty. six feet wide and one hundred
feet long will give that, besides the
bank for sLabling, aud there must be
enough of that to perfectly shelter
every hoof kept on "That Farm OF
Nine sheep included. None of the
stock must be allowed to seek shelter
on the south side of a barbed wire
fence, with a straw stack in the dis
tauce. That's cruelty to animals, and
shame TO civilization, to say the least
of it. The yard connected with the
barn must also be large and conven
lent. Connected with it must be thu
hcg pens, and other necessary barn
outbuildings. The implements of tn,
farm when not in use must be as per
fectly housed as is the stock These
outbuildings and barn must be suffi
ciently far from the house buiidins
that in no event will they be subiec
to one fire, and all insured in som
good farm insurance company. Th
barn buildings should have a hospita
room or two, as well as the house. On
!, dinarily, box stalls in the bank barn
, properly arranged sic sufficiently war;
!, for general hospital use. What farm
, er has no, felt the necessity of war;
room Tor some sick anima,? | repea
! let there be good barn hospita
where you can put stove, and kee
yonr animal al blood heat if need b,
! Hundreds of dollars may thereby
I | saved 10 the farm Last hnt nf