1904.] ESSAY. 89 



that can ^Wv our <2;r('at(M' pleasure (liaii: "This is my conccplioii, 

 I haA'o built my houu'." 



Tho baniyaid is always of the utmost importance, therefore 

 its location should receive all due consideration, for on its 

 convenience nmch labor can be saved. This important 

 auxiliary, when possible^ should be located in the rear and 

 connect(Ml with the barn; tiie manure from the live stock, 

 all refuse and decaying vegetable matter, deposited here. 

 Also wher(> the poultry are kept, the hen-yard and poultry 

 houses, should adjoin, for there is nmch benefit in convenience 

 in the care and management by this concentration, besides 

 the greater im])ortance of continuously adding to that impor- 

 tant factor to success, the manure heap. The range of the 

 poultry may be a part of and connected with the barnyard. 



Thorough and complete drainage must be provided for the 

 out-buildings as well as the barnyard. Proper division of the 

 barn, cellar or storage cellar, is absolutely essential to prevent 

 the absorption of odors by the fruits and vegetables that may 

 be placed therein. There has been very great loss and dis- 

 agreeable consequences come from this, and this applies also 

 to all outside pits, where the celery crops are stored, where 

 all impurities either in the covering material over the pits, 

 or in fact within, should be absolutely avoided. Celery, apples, 

 pears and practically all of the fruits and vegetables which 

 are used by the consumer without cooking, should l^e protected 

 to prevent absorption. 



The cold storage houses where chemicals are used in their 

 process of manufacture of cold air, are as yet unable to prevent 

 this, causing much dissatisfaction to the seller, as well as to 

 the consumer. Cold storage houses, this comparatively new 

 addition to civilization, is here and has come to stay. In 

 looking back to the primitive dugout of the backwoodsman, 

 and the most modern cold storage plant, one is reminded of 

 the advantages over the past, also which the speculator has 

 in these days over the farmer in storing his crops. One of 

 our l^est and largest onion growers raised and stored away his crop 

 for higher prices, in those earlier days, calling in one of the largest 



