342 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



enongli in which to do the work of the place but not large 

 enongh for a dining table, and furnished with an abundance 

 of good water. Adjoining the kitchen should be a roomy 

 dining room, and opening into this should be a sitting (or 

 living) room, furnished with a good library, and as many 

 papers as the family can read and not neglect the books, 

 with a well winnowed selection of the literature of the day. 

 Do you say this is too much ? Only think of the rainy days 

 and the lone; winter evening-s. 



If a dairy is to be the leading interest, a milk house, sep- 

 arate from every room of the house (except the ice house), 

 should be attached on the shady side ; and if for butter, the 

 large pans are indispensable, if for no more than eight cows, 

 such is the economy of labor. In a paper of this kind, every 

 convenience and appendage of a farm house cannot be 

 enumerated, but the deep gravelled or brick walk, the pro- 

 jecting veranda, and the portico should not be forgotten, 

 nor the spacious yard, giving room for the flowers and 

 shrubbery. 



Connected with the house should be the most perfect 

 drainage. It is a reproach to the country and a burning 

 shame that typhoid fevers (more to be feared tlian the yel- 

 low fever of the South because more fatal,) are so frequent, 

 and it is a recognized fact that the more perfect drainage of 

 our cities throws the percentage of fevers against the coun- 

 try ; and when our dear ones are stricken down from this 

 cause, how impious to charge it to a mysterious Providence 

 who gives us all the broad heaven witli its free air ! 



Pages could be written upon this subject, but I must turn 

 to the other adjunct of the farm, — the barn, and I will say 



