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THE FARMERS CABIXET. 



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To carry it into eflect advantaoreously, it 

 becomes the indispensable duty o( him, who 

 i.s employed to overlook and conduct the op- 

 iTutions, to take a prospective and compre- 

 hensive view of the whole business, which 

 is laid belbre him, that the several parts 

 (horoof may bo so ordered and arranged, as 

 tliat one sort of work may follow another 

 <i)Tt in proper succession, and without loss 

 til' labor or ot time: for nothinnf is a greater 

 waste of the latter, and consequently of the 

 lormor, (time producing- labor, and labor mo- 

 ney,) than shifting- from one thing- to another 

 beti're it is finislied, as if chance or the im- 

 pulse of the moment, not judgment and fore- 

 sight, directed the measure. It will be ac- 

 Jiuowledgod, that weather and oilier circum- 

 stances may at times interrupt a regular 

 course of proceedings, but if a plan is well 

 digested beforehand, they cannot interfere 

 long-, with a man who is acquainted with the 

 nature of the business, and the crops he is to 

 attend to. 



Every attentive and discerning- person, 

 who has the whole business of tlie year laid 

 before him, and is acquainted with the na- 

 ture of the work, can be at no loss to lay it 

 out to advantage. He will know that there 

 are many things which can be accomplished 

 in winter as well as in summer; others, 

 that spring;, summer, and autumn only are 

 fit for : in a word, to use the wise man's 

 saying", that " there is a time and a sea- 

 son for all things," and that unless they 

 ire embraced, nothing will thrive or go on 

 smoothly. There are many sorts of in-doors 

 work, which can be executed in hail, rain, 

 or snow, as well as in sunshine ; and if 

 they are set about in fair weather, (unless 

 there be a necessity for it,) there will be 

 nothing to do in foul weather; the people 

 therefore must be idle. The man of pru- 

 dence and foresight will always keep these 

 things in view, and order his work accord- 

 ingly, so as to suffer no waste of time or 

 idleness. These same observations apply 

 with equal force to frozen ground, and to 

 ground too wet to work in, or which if 

 worked will be injured thereby. 



These observations might be spun to a 

 greater length, but they are sufficient to pro-' 

 duce reflection ; and reflection, with industry 

 and proper attention, will produce the end 

 that is to be wished. 



There is one thing, however, I cannot 

 forbear to add, and in strong terms ; it is, 

 that whenever I order a thing to be done, it 

 must be done ; or a reason given at the 

 time, or as soon as the impracticability is 

 discovered, why it cannot be done, which 

 will produce a countermand or change. But 

 it is not for the person receiving the order to 

 suspend, or dispense with its execution ; and 



lafter it has been supposed to have gone into 

 lell'ect, to be told, th-at nothing has been done 

 in it, that it loill bo done, or that it could 

 not be done — either of these is unpleasant 

 and disagreeable to me, having been all my 

 life accustomed to more regularity and punc- 

 tuality. Nothing but system and method 

 are required to accomplish any reasonable 

 requests. — .iinerican Jllinanuc. 



Farm Biiiliiiiigs aiul tlic Con- 



I siiaiplioii of Fodder. 



I [The following article on Farm Buildings 

 and the consumption of Fodder, may not be 

 new to many of our readers; but it carmot, 

 we think, fail to -interest all who desire in- 

 formation on this subject. The farmers of 

 Pennsylvania and Nevv-.lersey will lose no- 

 thing by a comparison on this point with those 

 I of other states — but still they have by no 

 means reached the point of perfection. On 

 jthe proper management of farm-stock some 

 .are wofully deficient — this ought not to be — 

 every man who aspires to the dignified title 

 j of a farmer, ought to understand his business 

 'thoroughly, having all reduced to a system, 

 and that system regularly observed. In re- 

 gard to the erection of farm buildings, special 

 attention should be paid to the healthiness 

 of their location — durability — economy — 

 neatness — comfort. Rural architecture de- 

 mands, and ought to receive, in this country 

 especially, far more attention than has here- 

 tofore been devoted to it ; and on this subject 

 we invite the contribution of our friends. A 

 difference of opinion we are aware prevails 

 among many of our practical and intelligent 

 farmers on the propriety of stabling neat 

 cattle, some maintaining that it is calculated 

 to make them too sensitive to cold, &c. On 

 this point, as well as every other connected 

 with the subject, we solicit the contribution 

 of practical farmers.] 



From the Cultivator. 



Among all the deficiencies which exist in 

 the perfect management of our farms, I am 

 sensible that none are more prominent than 

 that of proper buildings. Not that I would 

 advocate expensive or large buildings, but 

 those of ample size and convenience for all 

 the lefritimate uses of the farm, and of such 

 shape and construction as shall conform to 

 strictly economical calculations. 



For instance, I would not build an expen- 

 sive«/o7(c barn on my farm, when one of wood, 

 equally good for all ordinary purposes, can 

 be erected for a sum not greater than two or 

 three years' interest on the cost of the stone 

 one, because a well underpinned wooden 

 building, where extraordinary warmth and 

 tightness are not required, will endure at 

 least fifty years, and need shingling no oftener 



