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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



•warmed by the stove, passes over the heads of the 

 children, is cKffused through the room, and goes out 

 at the top, to make room for more. 



This is the best that can be done with an air-tight 

 stove. If the heat be sufficient, as it usually is, I 

 suppose, in a wood stove, to carry off the carbonic 

 acid, generated by combustion, I see no objection 

 whatever to this mode of warming a room. My 

 friend. Professor Hoyt, deserves the credit of this 



pronounced, not against riches, but against trusting 

 in riches, and so I tliink it may be against those 

 who trust in furnaces alone, for warmth in our 

 changing climate. 



After all, the point chiefly to be regarded is 

 Ventilation. Yankee ingenuity has already furnished 

 abundant focilities for heating our houses at little 

 cost, and whenever the importance of Fresh Air is 

 fully appreciated, the demand for the means of in- 



simple but scientific arrangement, as he insisted up- troducing this luxury, which is unthought of be 



on trying it, against my solemn protest, that no 

 Buch stove could be in any way induced to warm 

 so large a room. The teacher iiiforms me that she 

 usually keeps the register and ventilator both open, 

 and that she is told by the committee that her room 

 requires much less fuel than either of the five other 

 school-rooms in the district. 



And, by the way, a visit to this model school, 

 taught by a model teacher, in a room a$ neat as a 

 lady's parlor, will compensate any of our friends for 

 the trouble of a call as they pass through our vil- 

 lage. 



To furnaces, for common houses in the country, 

 there are several practical objections, which most 

 of us can appreciate. In the first place, the heat is 

 not equally diffused. The vertical pipes, or those 

 nearly so, take all the heat, at the loss of those 

 which run horizontally. If in a cold day, you keep 

 your register constantly open so as to be very com- 

 fortable, the family in the parlor are probably shiv- 

 ering with cold, and you feel as guilty, as if you 

 had appropriated the coats and cloaks of the house- 



at their expense. Again, in the moderate and 

 changeable weather of spring, the furnace supplies, 

 on pleasant days, quite too much heat, while in 

 the severest cold of winter, Lf enough is generated, 

 it cannot be equally diffused. 



So far as I can learn, warming by a furnace is 

 far more expensive than by stoves. There is evi- 

 dently a great loss of heat, by generating it in the 

 cellar, and conducting it in pipes through the 



cause so common, will soon be met by an abundant 

 supply. 



For the New England Farmer. 



THINGS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Mr. Editor — Having recently visited several 

 of the countie; in the Granite State. I forward 

 you some of my "pencilllngs by the way," that you 

 may dispose of them as you see fit. Jafifrey, in 

 the eastern part of Cheshire County, is a pleasant 

 town, having the bald Monadnock on the west, and 

 the Peterboro' mountains on the east. There are 

 two villages, the east and the west ; in the former, 

 on the Contocook, which rises in Rindgc, are two 

 cotton mills in successful operation, said to be the 

 only mills of the kind in Cheshire County. There 

 is also a school-house, said to be the most perfect 

 of its kind in the State, The structure is of brick, 

 containing below, two school-rooms, with modern 

 and most-a])proved fixtures. Above, a spacious, 

 commodious and beautiful hall. It speaks well of 

 the wisdom, liberality and correct taste of the peo- 

 ple. How can money better be expended than in 

 providing ample facilities for the education of the 

 young ? 

 1 ,, , ., 1, J n. 1 • 1 , 1 1 . In the west village is an academ}-, well-sustained, 



hold for a ride, or pulled ofi^ their bed clothmg ^^^ ^ j^^^^ building for manv years occupied as a 

 while they were asleep, and so kept yourself warm meeting-hcuse ; but now as a town-hall. The frame 



was being raised on the day of the Bunker Hill bat- 

 tle ; when the news of the battle came, so many of 

 the men left for the scene of the conflict, that three 

 days were occupied in putting together the frame. 



A short distance westward, the mountain rises 

 with peculiar majesty. It stands an isolated peak, 

 upon an extensive plain rising 3100 feet above the 

 ocean's level. On the north and north-west, the sur- 

 face gives unmistakeable evidence of having been 

 swept over by some current, removing all loose 

 rocks, and leaving deep traces of its course. The 

 house. We thus warm a great many bricks, and a 'second week in October, I found blueberries near 

 good deal of machinery, the warmth from which the summit, in good condition— also, dwarf cran- 

 never benefits us. Doubtless, this may be in some 



measure compensated by the philosophical arrange- 

 ment of the best furnaces. My own house is kept 

 comfortable, by means of a close coal stove in the 

 hall, an open coal stove in the parlor, and wood 

 stoves in all the other rooms, except the kitchen. 

 When I built it, in 1850, I arranged it, so that, if 

 my notions should change, a furnace might be put 

 in. 



I have no insuperable objection to furnaces, but 



berries. 



The lover of the bold and the beautiful in nature 

 will be well paid for the labor of clambering to 

 Monadnock's height. 



The land in this region has been valued mainly 

 for its pasturage. But a blight has come over it, 

 in the shape of the June grass, or white grass. The 

 evil is a most serious one. This grass takes posses- 

 sion of the soil, to the exclusion of all others ; it 

 shoots up very early in the season, matures and ri- 

 pens in June, and the early part of July. When 

 green, cattle do not like itj dried, it is not only of- 



am convinced, that no man, who in the country re- 1 ^'^^^i^^. but very injurious to them. From the first 

 ,. « , ^ -1. 1 -111 01 August the pastures look as though a severe 



lies on a furnace a/07ie to warm his house, will long I ^^^^^gj^''^ j^^^ pj^^^ ^^.^^ them, and animals are 



be satisfied. He will find, that stoves, or fireplaces compelled to resort to the swamps, canebrakes and 

 at certain seasons, are still necessary. The woe was 1 forests for sustenance. How to remove the evil is 



