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by 16 feet, opening into a back entry, No. 13, and 

 across it into the kitchen, No. 4, 15 feet by 20; this 

 kirclien contains two large closets and connects with 

 a p;uitry, No. 7, which measures 7 feet by 10, and 

 is litted up with a sink and shelves. The next 

 room en suite is the back kitchen and wash rooms; 

 it contains two closets, a large oven and boiler, and 

 measures 10 feet by 12; it opens into the back en- 

 try, through which we pass to the wood-room. No. 

 % 14 feet by 15 ; No. 10, carriage shed, and No. 9, 

 work-shop. The back entry is 4 feet wide, and 

 ontains stairs to the chambers and cellar. On the 

 ront, doors open into the dairy. No. 11, 7 feet by 

 14; the store-room. No. 12, 7 feet by 13, and upon 

 he sheltered porch, No. 14. 



" The second tioor contains eight chambers, be- 

 sides bathing-room, dressing-rooms and closets. 

 The attics may be left untinished. 



Co:xsTiiuoTioN. — This bouse may be built of 

 wood, and covered in the common manner with 

 ;lapboards. 



''The roof of the main house projects 2^ feet, 

 md that of the L, 1 J- feet ; the cornices are sup- 

 )orted in brackets 3 inches thick. The windows 

 md doors, inside and outside, have plain archi- 

 raves, 5 inches wide. 



"Cost, in New England, about $3,500." 



THE AMOUNT OF PLASTER IN CLOVER. 



"The ashes of an ac:e of red clover have been 

 bund, by actual experience, to contain three bushels 

 )f plaster or gypsum." — Ohio Fariiier. 



Eed clover, when thoroughly dried, contains 

 bout 11 per cent, of ash. This ash contains, accord- 

 ng to Prof. HoESFOED, 1.06 per cent, of sulphuric 

 cid. A crop of clover, then, that would furnish 2-^ 

 ons (5,000 Ibb.) of dry hay, would contain 5";0 lbs. 

 f ash, and the ash would contain 5.83 lbs. of sul- 

 ihuric acid. Plaster or gypsum is sulphate of lime 

 omposed of 40 lbs. sulphuric acid and 28 lbs. of 

 ime. So that, if all tlie sulphuric acid is united with 

 ime, there would be 4.08 lbs. of lime united with 

 he 5.83 lbs. of sulphuric acid, making a total of 9.91 

 bs. of sulphae of lime or plaster. — That is to say, 

 nstead of an acre of red clover containing three 

 mshels of plaster, a very large crop, 2^ tons of dry 

 lay, would contain somewhat lesy than 10 lbs. of 

 laster. 



"We may add that the English and French chemists 

 ive a somewhat higher per centage of sulphuric 

 cid in the ash of red clover than Prof. Hoesfoed, 

 )ufc they also give a less per centage of ash, so that 

 he total quantity of plaster in the crop would not 

 >e much higlier than in the above calculations. 



If our friend of the Ohio Farmer had said that an 

 ,cre of red clover contains three quarts instead of 

 hree bushels of plaster, he would not have been far 

 >ut of the way. 



Ax AciJK OF SOIL, ten inches deep, weighs about 

 ;,267,000 lbs. 



Setting Fence Posts with the Top Down. — In 

 the January number of the Genesee Farmer^ our 

 esteemed correspondent, "Wm. Howe, stated that 

 about thirty years ago he split two bar-posts out of 

 a chestnut log. One of these he set with the butt 

 in the ground, the other with the top down. At 

 the end of ten years, the one set butt down was 

 rotted olf. It was reset in the same hole, and in six 

 years it was rotted off again. The other post set 

 top down, lasted four years longer, (16 years from 

 setting) when it got split in two and it was then 

 found to be only about two-thirds rotted off. Mr. 

 Howe mentioned other facts going to prove that 

 posts should be set top-down. 



The Neio Yorh Observer copies this article, and 

 asked if any of its readers had tried the experiment. 

 In the Observer of Ju-ly 12, a correspondent replies, 

 "I have tried it for twenty years with the best 

 result. Those set top down remaining perfectly 

 sound when the others were rotted off." 



A VISIT TO CANANDAIGUA. 



Eds. Genesee Faemer: — The smartest of New 

 England's villages are beautiful and elaborate in 

 rural decorations, and often display a taste and 

 beauty in modern cottage architecture, and the 

 more ambitious structures — both picturesque and 

 grand. But there is nothing in the vegetable 

 creation of primitive New England — either on its 

 granite hills, stony plains, or narrow intervales 

 — that will compare in the extent and rapidity 

 of its growth with the sylva and flora of the ter- 

 tiary limestone fornuition of Western New York. 

 Here, in a very few years, both fruit and orna- 

 mental trees attain an altitude and size they do not 

 there reach in a century ; and our shrubbery grows 

 so rampant, that the great objection to Osage Or- 

 ange hedge here is, that it can not be kept within 

 wholesome limits. 



Of all the villages of fair alluvial Western New 

 York, Geneva and Canandaigua perhai)s take the 

 palm for convenience and beauty of location, while 

 few other country towns have finer or more sesthetic 

 mansions, gardens, and grounds. It has been said 

 of Canandaigua, tliat she has, in common with vil- 

 lages of less size and wealth, few cut-stone side- 

 walks. The reason of this is, that she has exten- 

 sive banks of the best gravel near at hand where- 

 with to improve her ways, but no stone quarries. 

 But who would object to the high raised, compact 

 gravel side-walk, of ample breadth, well shaded by 

 deciduous trees, because its surface was not a cal- 

 ciferous or mica slate ; or what is worse, a blue 

 limestone, which so soon ac(]uires the marble polish 

 — too slipjiery to safely walk on. 



I confess that when I see a costly iron fence, 

 standing on cut-stone base, with side-walk to match, 

 while nothing of arboricultural or floral beauty in 

 the interior grounds is seen to correspond with it, 

 I can not but feel that here, at least. Jack is hardly 

 concealed by tlie exterior of the gentleman. But 

 Sonenburg, the suburban Gothic cottage I now vis- 

 ited, was the reverse of all this. Here was a broad, 



