No. 7. > DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 18X 



should be of the most substantial and comfortable kind, with nothing 

 too good for use, and nothing that will be harmed by exposure to 

 sun and light. In this room there should be a large table, a couch, 

 a book case, good lights and comfortable, easy chairs. 



In the parlor, especially, one might be tempted to be extravagant, 

 although a nice, neat parlor can be furnished without containing 

 upholstered furniture. Here could be found comfortable chairs, a 

 sofa well supplied with pillows, a stand or table on which is a lamp, 

 a brussels carpet and some rugs on the floor, and an organ in one cor- 

 ner, or, if the purse will permit, a piano instead. 



The bedrooms should be well lighted and well ventilated. Each 

 one should be furnished with a comfortable bed, a dressing case 

 which should be as generous as possible in drawers and mirror, a 

 washstand, a towel rack, a toilet set, one easy chair and one plain 

 one, a small table, and a rug. If means would permit, a couch, a 

 writing desk and book shelves could be added. Matting makes the 

 most desirable covering for the floor, as it is much healthier than 

 woolen carpet. 



In these, as well as in the other rooms in the house, the furnish- 

 ings should be simple or ela'borate as the taste would suggest or 

 the purse permit. 



Now, as to decorations. It has been remarked that the best dec- 

 oration for the kitchen is a good looking woman who is a good cook. 



In the other rooms, as with the furnishings, so with the decora- 

 tions. They may be either simple or elaborate. 



Pictures may adorn the walls, bric-a-brac the mantle-pieces, and 

 curtains the windows, while house plants may be placed in the win- 

 dows of any or all of the rooms, but everything should be artistic. 



CURING CLOVER. 



By T. N. KALSTON, Elderton. Pa. 



'In presenting to you a way of curing clover hay that we have 

 adopted and practiced the last three seasons we would not have 

 you understand that we want to spring something new on the public, 

 with no merit in itself, but will endeavor to show vou what we have 

 done and how we have done, and the purpose for doing it in this 

 manner. 



In June of 1897, we were caught with four acres of cloVer which 

 was cut on Friday afternoon and rain fell on it immediately after 

 it was cut. 



