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Good and Bad Farming Contrasted. 
Avith all the means of ventilation that varying circumstances 
might require. The yard surrounded by high, tight materials so 
that the animals were kept in so close quarters in winter as to 
render any loss of manure impossible. In the stables or sheds, 
there were ample accommodations for every animal to shelter 
them from the storm, screen them from high and drivino- winds, 
and enable them to eat their daily allowance, in the way most for 
their own comfort and the economy of their owner. There, too, 
was a tool house beside the granary, where the well polished 
plows, shovels, hoes, &c., told of labor that brings reward for all 
i s bestowments. 
Fig. 13 — Premises of the Good Farmer. 
It was natural, of course, for us to visit the dwelling and see 
(he thrift and comfort abounding there, and, in our progress, the 
beautiful lawn which you see spread around it in the above view, 
(fig. 13,) exhibited a cheerfulness of aspect which it is always 
delightful to find around the farmer's premises. It was as smooth 
and delightful a carpet of nature's velvet, as was ever spread upon 
the lap of earth. Not a pebble there so large as to give the 
slightest inconvenience to the most delicate foot-fall. No brush 
or broken hoops, or cast off wares were scattered round to annoy 
the eye, or prove stumbling blocks to the unwary visiter. It is 
unnecessary for us to say that substantial comfort and happiness, 
