1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



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room. At G, the staircase is located — in a 

 central position and convenient to the whole 

 house, yet sufficiently retired for private use. 

 A door leads to the yard at L. li is a large 



Ground Plan. 

 pantry or wash-rooQi opening from the 

 kiichen and having communication with the 

 yard. K is a large store closet. 



In the second story the head of the staircase 

 leads to a hall five feet wide, and from this 

 hall open the several rooms. They are all the 



This house is designed to be built of frame, 

 boarded and clapboarded on the outside, and 

 the roof covered with shingles. The dimen- 

 sions of the main part are thirty by thirty- five 

 feet on the outside of the frame, and the small 

 rooms H and K are in a one-story leanto. 

 The stories are nine and a half feet high. The 

 cellar has a stone wall up to the top of the 

 banking, and above that, a brick underpin- 

 ning, which should be painted some dark color 

 corre-ponding with the darkest color of the . 

 trimmings of the house. The inside finiah is 

 of the plainest description. 



This house may be built for $3500. 



Club-foot in Cabbages. — A. G. Peabody, 

 Macbias, Me., writes to the New York Far- 

 mers' Club, that Club-foot is caused by worms 

 which devour the small fibers of the root of 

 the cabbage plant. These worms come from 

 eggs which are laid at the point where the 

 plant touches the ground, just beneath 

 the surface of the earth, by a fly like the 

 house-fly. Any one, by scraping away the 

 earh a wetk afcer the plant is set, can see the 

 eggs. A sure remedy is to put a tablespoon- 

 ful of air-slaked lime around the cabbage plant 

 when it is set out, and cover it with a quarter 

 cf an inch of pulverized earth. The fly lays 

 the egg in the lime, and the egg, b 'ing moist, 

 absorbs the lime and is killed. If the worm 

 is once hatch^-d it dives into the ground, and 

 is then out of reach of any remedy. 



Mr. R. G. Kimer, Penn Yan, writes : — I 

 never fail in cab'oage. My plan is to set the 

 plants in a hoilow, such as a wash-bowl pressed 

 in soft earth would make ; give them good 

 cultivation, and keep the soil in the same 

 shape, always dishing around the plant. My 

 reason — the stalk of the plant will be shaded, 

 the top will conform to the shape of the place 

 where the plant is set, the leaves being up- 

 right, the more readily conveying the dew 

 directly to the roots, thus supplying itself 

 with moisture daily. 



Chamber Flan. 



same size — thirteen by fourteen — and each 

 one has a closet attached ; the small room E, 

 over the front of the hall, is a dressing-room 

 belonging to the chamber C. 



KEEriNG Hajis a>;d Bacon for SmnrER 

 Use. — I give you the method which my wife 

 adopted several years ago, and which I find to 

 be the best I ever saw tried, viz : — Cut the 

 ham in slices of proper thickness, fry it just 

 enough to get the moisture out of the lean, (or 

 about half cooked,) then lay the slices kito a 

 stone crock and pour the fat over it which has 

 been fried out ; add enough melted lard to 

 cover the meat and set away in a cool cellar, 

 keeping it covered. Take it out as wanted 

 and finish cooking. This method may not be 

 new to many of your readers, or perhaps most 

 of them know of better methods. — JD. B. Cor- 

 ndl, in Country Gentleman. 



