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of convenient and inconvenient buildings — their influence upon the 

 amount of labor, the comfort and happiness and health of the vari- 

 ous individuals. We often hear from the housewife, " this kitchen 

 is well contrived to do work in ; or badly adapted to that end." 

 What a world of difference is here ! And how surely must it tell 

 upon the temper and character of those who spend so large a 

 portion of their lives there ! Whatever facilitates labor in the 

 house promotes order, neatness and comfort. How these react 

 upon the taste and feelings of the family, does not need to be 

 shown. We have sometimes thought that farmers, Avhose chief 

 business is out-of-doors, did not always sympathize so much as 

 they should with their wives and daughters, whose labor is full as 

 severe as their own. We hope we mistook. At any rate, it is 

 not amiss in us to invite the attention of farmers to such an 

 arrangement of their houses and other buildino;s as will render 

 domestic labor as easy and pleasant as possible. 



The barn cellar commends itself so powerfully that no new barn 

 is found without it ; and the farmer who sets himself defiantly 

 against it as a needless innovation upon old usages, finds his neigh- 

 bors going beyond him in all the elements of prosperity. One 

 man assured us that he could not be persuaded of its necessity, 

 until he saw that those who had cellars, in a few years began to 

 sell hay. The manure heap is a bank that never refuses liberal 

 discounts. 



We have seen in several places a new interest in raising horses. 

 This is a business that has not heretofore been much practised in 

 this county. But in almost every direction we observe fine young 

 horses, that will soon pay a handsome profit. The late exhibition 

 in Dedham, in connection with our annual fair, showed the feeling 

 that exists in reference to horses, and has served to stimulate the 

 efforts of our farmers in this direction. 



It may also be observed, that notwithstanding the objections 

 brought against fine high-bred stock on the score of expense and 

 Avant of adaptation to our climate and soil, yet the number of such 

 cattle has largely increased during the past year. Not perhaps 

 with the design of maintaining entire herds, so much as the im- 

 provement of our native breed by judicious crossings. But cattle 

 require food ; and scarcely any subject presses more closely upon 

 our farmers than that of the summer keeping of their stock. 



