fore ffive a prominent station to tlie accompany- size, and it weighed a little more than an ounce 

 ine sketch of a fruit of this kind, forwarded by and a holf ; so that ten such Strawberries would 

 Mr JoHV Stobbs, gardener at Doddingtoii make a pound. Has any one ever produced 

 HaU, near Lincoln. The figure shows its exact 1 such a Strawberry- as this before ? We doubt it. 



ON THE PRINCIPLES TO BE OBSERVED IN THE ERECTION 

 AND CONSTRUCTION OF FARM-HOUSES. 



Orf some future occasion, we shall give 

 ground-plans of farm Buildings, .suited to farms 

 of different sizes and to the husbandry of differ- 

 ent States. The buildings adapted to grain- 

 growing Pennsylvania, to hay-growing Massa- 

 chusetts, to sheep-growing Vermont, to tobacco- 

 planting Maryland, to cotton-planting Carolina, 

 and to sugar-planting Louisiana, obviously re- 

 quire to be on plans widely different, as far as 

 the staple crops are concerned ; but in the fol- 

 lowing observations on Farm Buildings, from a 

 late number of the London Agricultural Ga- 

 zette, there are principles laid down which are 

 of general applicability, deser\'ing to be heeded 

 accordingly. But, alas ! as was lately observed 

 on the subject in the New- York Albion, in our 

 countrj- of change ! change ! change ! there is so 

 little of forecast, or permanence, that fe^v things 

 are doJic with reference to any entire plan, in 

 which one part is to relate to another, and each 

 to all the rc.*t ; with a view to a combination of 

 conveniences, and the most economcial use of 

 the whole. The fact is. that farming is, for the 

 most part, undertaken without adequate capital. 

 Men buy and settle upon land, without having 

 in hand the requisite me.ans to improve it ; 

 wherea.s, in England, no landlord ^vill rent land 

 to a tenant, who cannot first show that he has 

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beforehand, more money per acre than the ave- 

 rage fee simple value of all the laud in any State 

 South or West of the Chesapeake and the Alle- 

 ghanies ; moreover, as few know how long their 

 land may remain in their own families, or how 

 long it may be before they are either starved 

 out, or tempted by delusive descriptions and the 

 increase of their household, to sell out and 

 " tnave West," improvements are made in de- 

 tachments, without confidence of remaining to 

 caiTy out any plans, even if they had the fore- 

 cast to form one, and means to complete it. 



An ill-contrived edifice is put up in one place, 

 and another in its uses closely allied to it is, af- 

 ter some years, put up at a magnificent distance 

 therefrom ; so that much time is daily wasted in 

 passing from the " great hou.se" to the " ftuar- 

 ters" — from the " duarters" to each other — from 

 all of them to the cattle-yard, and from that to 

 the stable ; from the stable to the corn-house, 

 and from that again to the granarj' ; the tobac- 

 co-houses being as widely scattered as the 

 premi.ses will allow ; few or none of them 

 closely watched, and kept carefiilly clean and 

 in good order : constantly, as they should be, 

 the preservation of buildings making, most em- 

 phatically, one of those cases in which " a stitch 

 in time saves nine." Let not these remarks be 



