1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ly life of the mistress of tliis cottage, are all on 

 trie first floor, and all close together. The last 

 three of these are economically obtained by put- 

 ting them in a one story ivinq- added to the rear 

 of the cottage ; and though the rooms thus af- 

 forded are not large, yet tliey are large enough 

 when they are to be kept in order with very little 

 "help." 



"The kitchen, in this plan is properly the liv- 

 ing and eating room of the family, and in order 

 that it may always be kept neatly, there is a small 

 back kitchen adjoining, with its separate flue for 

 a small range or cooking stove,- so that all the 

 rougher work can be done there, which makes the 



'larger kitchen, usually, a pleasant family dining- 

 room. 



"There is a partition across the hall, just by 

 the stairs, which is intended to serve as the ex- 

 treme limits of nursery excursions, on all occa- 

 sions when decorum in the parlor is the order of 

 the day. The door here, as well as the front door, 

 should have the two uppei-most panels glazed, so 

 as to light both parts of the hall when they are 

 closed. 



^^ Estimate. The estimated cost of this cottage, 

 well-finished, is §1278." This, of course, would 

 vary in different locations, and would be high^ 

 now than for several years past. 



GROUND PLAN OF BRACKETTED COTTAGE WITH VEKANDJ 



NO COMFORTS— THE SECRET. 



A few days since we were in one of our lower 

 valleys, and while in conversation with a few cul- 

 tivators and their families, we heard continually 

 of the poverty of those who were engaged in 

 farming. All manner of complaints came from 

 the families of their want of tlio ordinary com- 

 forts of life. One good and industrious vvile re- 

 marked that she would like to live here if she 

 could have those necessary comforts tluit make 

 life desirable ; she did not lijce to live as t^lie did. 

 Her husband was always complaining of hard 

 times and of scarcity of money, that he could 

 not ^et along, and that he would never get 

 enough to go home with. For her part she did 

 not like to live so. They had plenty of laud and 

 grain, cattle and horses ; but she had no garden, 

 no wash-house, no wood-shed, no hens or chick- 

 ens, no cow ; in fact she had but little or non(> of 

 the comforts she thought ought to be liad around 

 a place where one lived. Upon an inquiry of the 

 farmer how he was getting along — "well, he was 

 trying hard to get enough to take him back 

 again ; he had not done much this year, ho 1 ad 

 only made ixhout Jive thuusand dollars.'^ 



Here is the secret ; a class of men who arc 

 farming to make money, living to make money, 

 not making it to live ; and while they are doing 

 well they deprive their families of the ordinary 

 means and comforts of life, filching the treasures 

 of earth to carry away. They feci no interest in 



what relates to a iiome here, but are contianaTlj 

 unsatisfied themselves and making others so, xiB- 

 less they can hoard up gold. 



We l)elievo this class of farmers ave the incxm- 

 Ims upon the soil, and the quit-kor 'all get rid of 

 them the better ; and we believe the present em- 

 barrassments that rest upon the inlevests of Ag- 

 riculture result from this very ciass of men. 

 What California wants, in and among Agriful- 

 tural districts, is homes, where tlio chief aiui 

 shall be to render that home as attractive as pos- 

 sible, and where the entire income of a farm 

 shall be devoted to its improvement and increased 

 productions, and to jilaeing, in and around tiiat 

 home, those comfbrls and blessings that shall 

 give it such attractions that there shall never 

 bo a spirit of complaint or murmuring, Imt one 

 continued hymn ol rejoicing and thankfulness for 

 the "abundance which the earth giveth." 



When such a spirit prevails it will i>c emana- 

 tions from an eidightened body of men, who will 

 then understand their own employm.'nt, and un- 

 derstanding it, they will avoid the mistakes which 

 tiio present heterogeneous mass now make, whose 

 only aim is to make n\oney — home or no homo — 

 which must ever result in ruin to thcm?*;lves and 

 all connected witii them. — Calif i>rnia Farmer. 



5^" At the close of the current year, it is stfvted, 

 the troasury of the State of Missouri will have oij 

 hand the handsome surplus sum of $'400,1100. 



