Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-09-28
soAao BULLETIN FOR SEPTEMBER.
THE HOME AND ITS CoSvENIENcEs.

TIE HOME AND ITS CoSvESIENcEs.
AUGUSTA, September IL, 1897.
We have arranged for our readers this
month the views and opinions OF our
correspondents on the matter OF home
conveniences and the general plans for
lessening labor and adding beauty and
comfort TO our farm homes. Our cor
respondents have responded freely, and
we believe that their remarks will be
found interesting and valuable.
We take this opportunity to request
our readers to send 70 the office on a
postal card suggestions as to the subject
matter for the October Bulletin.
The following Is the crop average for
Oxford County:
Amount Of hay crop, l20 per cent.
Condition Of fruit, 20 per cent. Condi-
ton Of potato crop, ~ per cent. Condi-
ton Of corn crop: sweet, 10 per cent,
yellow, 56 per cent. Is per cent OF the
grain will be fed unthreshed. Rust on
potatoes very prevalent, and In many
places they are rotting badly.
GENERAL AVERAGE FOR THE STATE
Amount Of hay crop, 100 per cent.
Condition Of fruit, 81 per cent. Condi-
ton OF potato crop, Is per cent. Condi-
ton OF corn crop: sweet, 81 per cent,
yellow, 60 per cent. Per cent OF grain
70 be fed unthreshed, 35. Potato crop
suffering severely from rust and rot,
throughout the entire state.
ANpRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
AUBuRN--0ue Of the greatest con-
veuieaces and comforts Of home (next
TO good wife Is = good supply OF good
pure water, aud the way 10 get II is to
take Il from some spring away from the
buildings. Water taken from wells near
the buildings IL not only liable, but al
most certain, TO become impure. There
are but few farms so situated but that
pure water can be secured with little ex-
pensc. either by grsvitstiou, ram, or
windmill. 90 course gravitation Is
preferable. One can afford to 60 some
distance to tap a spring higher than his
buildings rather than to force water
from springs or brooks below, as he
gets rid Of the expense OF windmill or
other machinery and the cost OF keeping
same in repair. We have lived on our
farm fifteen years and have taken water
from an squeduct that had been running
much longer than that before we moved
on 10 the farm, and have not been to 4
cents expense for repairs. Ours Is so
arranged that the water comes into a
tank In the kitchen first, from which We
use all We need In the house, the over
flow going TO the barn and supplying
the stock. This saves quite an expense,
which would be necessary were we
obliged 10 pump water for our seventy
i've 10 one hundred head OF stock. The
water, being In motion continually, Is
kept pure. Some Of my neighbors take
water from springs lower than their
buildings with rams, others with wind
mills, aud all are so well pleased that
they wonder they did not provide IL be-
fore. b. +. BRIGGS, Member
EAST LIvERNoRE-I sm not well
enough acquainted with the subjects OF
your ino niries to give much information.
Pure water, sunlight, and well ventilsted
rooms are indispensable TO health as well
as TO happiness. In my sitting-room l
have the sunlight and Franklin stove,
and nv neighbors say that II Is the most
comforts BILE room they know OF for
winter. Nv water comes from pure
springs, while at the barn have well.
Nv sleeping room has an open fireplace,
80 as 10 give free ventilation. Ny kitch-
en- In winter Is kept Of equal temperature
night and day. c. KNAPP.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.
CASTLE HILL.-The subject Of home
and Its eonveniences IL something that
should interest US all, especially the
ladies', ss they are obliged TO occupy
home the most OF the time. Now water
is something that we are obliged TO use
almost constantly, and il should be As
near our stock In the barn and our wives
In the kitchen as possible. Some can
put In pipes and bring II from springs.
Some have cisterns for holding the rain
water caught on the buildings, which IL
fine plan. Amy one can put in wind
mill that will take the water from our
wells and supply our barns and houses
with fine supply Of water at small
cost. The slack plan OF hauling water
and keeping IL In q barrel should be done
away with in these enlightened times, as
a man who would furnish water that way
ought TO be obliged to do his own cook
ing and all the house work besides. As
TO the kitchen and pantry. the most con-
yenieut ene I have ever seen Is kitchen
and pantry all in one, having -four chests
and closed cupboards and shelves around
the room near the stove so as to save as
much travel as possible. The woodbox
Is In the partition between the woodshed
and the cook room, the wood put In on
one side and taken out OF the other, saw
ing lots Of work for the boys and lots oi
cleaning for the women. In so doing we
can have pleasant wives. Convenient
homes with pleasant inmates make lie
worth the living.
j. w. DUDLEY, (Member.)
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
OTIsrIELD-I have found 1t con-
venient to carry milk from the Ice TANK
to one Of my stables under which Is
cellar with hogs. With the aid OF
bench and spout and tunnel inserted in
hole In the floor, the milk Is run into
barrel below. But that swill barrel ID 8
wonderful incubator for flies, unles.
care is taken to keep 1t cOvered-and
such care as has never been discovered
in nv constitution. This summer the
milk for hogs elsewhere on the premises
has been drawn into barrels 10 the oper
air near the tank (kept 10 the Ice house.
from which the milk Is carried to th'
pigs rs needed, and those pigs have rea
son to thank me every day that the swii
barrel is so far away. IL Is surprising
to see how exempt they are from the an
noysnce Of flies compared with those II
the stable cellar; also how little there Il
of that miserable sour smell about I'M
outdoor barrels. Brother farmer, ie
that COW that holds up her milk Cant
you can't see any reason Why be eatin,
little provender while she Is bein'
Pale and Thin