t}2S now TO .MAKE THE FAKM PAY. 



is immense. But the deficiency of this important farm appen- 

 dage is the natural result of the circumstances which attend the 

 settler in a new country. The little capital that he sets out 

 with is generally all required to secure his land and erect the 

 humble tenement for himself and family. He may provide a 

 rough shed of poles for his work horses, but his cattle must 

 seek shelter in winter under the trees or behind fences ; and 

 his grain is threshed out in the field, as soon after harvest as 

 circumstances will admit. His hay is stacked up near his sta- 

 ble, and thus, from what he is at first compelled to submit to 

 from necessity, the habit of neglect is formed, and, in after 

 years, when the circumstances will admit of providing sucli 

 conveniences, he has arrived at the conclusion that they are 

 not necessary. , 



" In travelling through portions of Pennsylvania, we have 

 often been struck with the evidences of the foresight and 

 economy of the earrly Dutch settlers, in providing barns of 

 capacity sufiicient for the protection of most of their hay and 

 grain, their horses and farm stock, while their dwellings for 

 themselves and families are small and of the most humble style. 



" The loss sustained by the Western farmers for the want of 

 suitable barns, amounts to many millions of dollars annually. 

 Besides the injury to his hay and grain crops, he labors under 

 great inconvenience, and is subject to heavy losses in feeding 

 his stock during winter ; and, besides this, his animals require 

 much more food to maintain them in order through the winter 

 thftn when they are comfortably sheltered. If they do not re- 

 ceive an extra amount of food, to keep up the animal heat 

 during the long, cold winter, they consume the fat that they 

 have accumulated through the summer, to supply the deficiency 

 of food. Heat is maintained from one of these two sources, bj 

 a sort of combustion, analogous to the fuel in a stove, or the oil 



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