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cumulate a load of clay or filth. This seems like an 

 impossibility to the average home keeper, who is 

 generally short of help. Let your barn floor be 

 made extra tight, and then carry to it the hose from 

 your gasoline engine or water tank, and you may 

 clean it without serious labor on your own part and 

 without much delay. 



A dirty barn is like a dirty house, simply a matter 

 of habit. Keep a good broom at hand, and " brush 

 out " as the housewife brushes the kitchen and porch, 

 as soon as she is abroad in the morning. The barn 

 lawns can be kept just as tidy as those about the house 

 and with very little outlay of time and work. The 

 gain will far outbalance the cost, and especially in the 

 way of creating a tidy and comfortable sentiment 

 about the homestead. I have no fancy notions about 

 this matter, but I am sure that every one will be sur- 

 prised at the great improvement he can make at lit- 

 tle cost. 



I have before spoken of the enormous crops one 

 can gather from the walls of house, barns, and other 

 outbuildings. You can never get too many good 

 grapes, as they are valuable for all sorts of purposes. 

 Nor do I see why they should not be so abundant as 

 to be very free for your help as well as for your fam- 

 ily. If you will run wires parallel to each other, all 

 the way around your barn, or any other outbuilding, 

 you may attach vines until the whole becomes an ar- 

 bor. I find that in this way I am able to grow most 

 superb Lindleys and Gaertners and Brightens with 



