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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



A SMALL COTTAQE. 



The above cut of a small dwelling house is 

 copied from "Village and Farm Cottages," 

 the author of which estimated that it could be 

 built for six hundred and tifty dollars at the 

 time his book was published, some fourteen 

 years ago. 



It is. divided into three rooms and a front 

 entry. The front door, at the right of the 

 spade seen in the cut, opens into this entry, 

 and from it there is access to each of the three 

 rooms. The living room, with the large front 

 window, is 14 by 15 feet ; immediately back 

 of this is the kitchen 10 by 13 feet, with a fair 

 siziid pantry back of the entry ; and in the 

 left-hand or ell part is the bed-room 10 by 14 

 feet, with a closet. 



The exterior finish which is plain, may be 

 ornamented by a grape vine or prairie rose, 

 which will look better and cost less than the 

 gingerbread finery of the carpenter. But 

 what a small house for a family ! True it is 

 not as large as some ; but it is not sufficient 

 for a small family that has not the means to 

 build larger ? And would it not be better to 

 own such a house clear than to have a larger 

 one with a big mortgage, or to pay rent quar- 

 terly ? 



But if it is not good enough for you, how 

 would it answej^for your hired man ? Many 

 farmers are cOTRdering the question of em- 

 ploying married men and furnishing a dwell- 

 ing for them, instead of boarding them in their 



families. We hope it will furnish valuable 

 hints to somebody who wants a cheap house. 



"Talking Farmees." — In the report of the 

 proceedings of the late Farmers' Meeting at Con- 

 cord, N. H., published in the Mirror and Farmer, 

 we find the following : — 



Mr. George, of Barnstead, offered this resolution : 



Whereas If being a faot that the New Hnmpehire 

 Sta'e Agricultural fc'ociety is and for the piSt few years 

 hae been conductel in a large d<gree by B'o'^'-'fsionbl 

 men and politicisins, rather than by the farmers whose 

 contributioEB mainly contribute to the success of the 

 exhibitions, it is, therefore, 



liesolved, By the fartrtrs of New Hampshire to-night 

 assembled, that the manag ment of the Etite Sicieiy 

 be transferred into the hands of the agricu'turists of 

 our State, that the lucrative offic s ol said Society be 

 given to farmerB in full eympathy with our people, that 

 the ab'us? 8 long existing io the present minagcmentof 

 the Society be corrected, and that, fail ng in this, we 

 will join our effo:ts with those of the f^rmeis of our 

 State in forming a new Society which shall be nt least 

 partially managed by men ia direct sympathy with onr 

 agricultural people. 



After remarks by the chairman and others, on 

 motion of J. F. Lawrence, member of the Board 

 from Rockingham County, the resolution was laid 

 on the table. 



A Fine Wheat Crop. — Mr. A. M. Latham, of 

 Ashley Barony, S. C, sent to the Rural Caro- 

 linian, a statement of a wheat crop on "seven acres 

 of old field." The land was ploughed nine inches 

 deep and a luxuriant crop of weeds turned under. 

 Sowed one bushel of seed per acre. When full 

 grown, the wheat stood about five feet high, he 

 states, and the yield was 367 bushels of as fine 

 wheat as he ever saw, or about fifty-two and a half 

 bushels per acre ! This will probably stir up 

 some of the fossil farmers in the South. 



