1864. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



113 



180 f. 



9- 

 3 /• 



REFERENCES. 



Main Carriage Road. 



Path to Front Door. 



Flower Beds. 



Kitchen Garden. 



Verandahs. 



House. 



Kitchen. 



Woodshed. 



Barn and Cellar. 



Pig-sty. 



Village Homestead as it should be — Improved. 



How the scene is changed ! How pleasantly 

 it strikes us, and at once fills us with agreeable 

 emotions ! We love to linger near it, and con- 

 template the forms of beauty which everywhere 

 meet the eye, and listen to the cheerful sounds 

 that mingle in the perfumed air. Everything 

 conspires to fill the mind with grateful feelings, 

 and to impress upon it such a charming landscape 

 view and harmony of sounds, as will come back 

 in pleasant memories in all after life, whatever 



that whatever the business of the occupants may 

 be, more money will be made under the influences 

 of the neatness, order and beauty of the Improved 

 Homestead, than there can be with the same busi- 

 ness talent unimproved. 



Soil for Flowers. — Soil for flowers may be 

 looked up during the winter season. Very few 

 understand that an occasional change of soil is 

 very beneficial to flowers in beds, though all know 

 how important it is to flowers in jsots. There is 

 our employment may be, or wherever in the wide nothing better than surface soil from an old pas- 

 world our lot may be cast. j ture > taken off about two inches deep, and thrown 

 . ... , , ,,. , . , ,« , , into a heap with about one-sixth part of old hot- 

 As will be seen by this sketch, the curved road, ; bed dung ' to pardally decay< In addiUon tQ thig 



/, does away with the necessity of going to the I "staple" item, a smaller quantity of different mat- 

 barn to get into the carriage, or to roll a barrel of ters should be gathered together for peculiar cases, 

 flour across the grass to get it into the house. I or particular plants. Peat, for instance, will be 



So, too, the paths through the garden all bend in : f ound . vei T us , eful for man >' kinds of plants This 



, " , ,. „ 18 not, as is often supposed, mere black sand ; but 



such a manner as to offer the readiest means for a 8pongVj fibroug 8ub8tance from the ^ rface of 



exit and entrance, without leaving sharp corners ; bogs and boggy wastes. Sand should be collect- 

 to be cut across. The flower-beds, h, offer a i ed sharp and clean ; the washings from turnpike 

 pleasing object to the eye, and the porch and ve- ditches are as g ood as anything. Leaf-mould is 

 „ "j . „ i , i , ., i a- , , best got already well decayed from the woods. A 



randahs added to the house, ?, aftord a cool i i e e •,, , j 



. . i load or so ot well-decayed cow-manure is a good 



promenade morning, evening and mid-day, and thing for the gardener to have by him, as all those 

 screen the windows from the hot sun, and when plants that dislike our hot summers, and want a 

 festooned with vines furnish more beauty than cool soil to grow in, prefer it to any other ma- 



any other possible ornament. Flower beds, h, j nur . e - A 6 ™ al1 P ile ot ' hot - bed manure is almost 



c ., j i i i . i ii indispensable to a garden. — Gardener's Monthly. 



are cut out of the grass, and should be kept well r ° J 



filled with flowers. „ „ „ , „,, „. 



jyi! „ , , , ., Farmers, Be on your Guard ! — IhePleuro- 



Jbmally, neatness, order and beauty, outside, ■„ . . .,, . iU ' , r. „,. 



. J ... .„ . . i .Pneumonia is among us still, without doubt. We 



indicate neatness within. A beautilul writer says, i , . - , . , . . , . 



. * \ advise every farmer to keep his cattle as closely 



" 1 he care of (lowers and cultivation ot plants, do .,, , ... . , , ,,. 



. ' i as possible, as, by this caution, he may keep this 



not merely contribute to the maintenance of ' .* - , . „ „ , 17 , J. '• .. 



, , , , „ , . ,, . pestilence from his stalls. We learn that it now 



health, they soften the passions and elevate the I . . . . ,, . „ t , ■ 



exists in some twenty towns in this State. 



taste above the affdrs of every day life. In the 

 home around which we see a well-kept garden, 

 internal order almost always prevails ; and where 

 there is a fl nver-stand outside, there is almost 

 alw^vs a boo\-srie|f within." 



A correspondent of the Mark Lane Express, 

 who highly extols the cabbage for feeding milch 

 cows, store cattle, sheep and swine, and more es- 

 pecially for spring feeding of lambing ewes, says 



that the average product per acre in England 

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