TgR)CULTUR> 
ESTABLISHED IN 1830, 
The yield of barley ranges from twenty to 
forty bushels per acre. Two bushels per acre of 
seed is about the right average quantity. It is 
an unfavorable crop for laying land down to 
grass, for the reason (hat its roots keep so near 
the surface, and appropriate so much nutriment 
in the top soil, that the grass roots are liable to 
starve. 
for sills. It takes two sticks, eight inches long, 
starting from the house, and three pieces, 28 
incites long, in the center. The carpenter can 
set his bevel from this plan to cut the ends by. 
Don’t stop to frame them, iron tenons are the 
best. Lay the floor, then take six good clear 3 by 
4 pieces 7 feet six inches long. Plano them and 
work them by the same bevel, uail two pairs to¬ 
gether and stand them even with the sills. Put 
on a plate of 3 by 4, with ends cut same as sills. 
Put in a stool two feet from the floor. Then the 
opening is right for 10 by 20 glass, three lights 
high. The roof can be made very well of 
matched boards battened. By plowing a groove 
near the edges of each board, it can be made 
tight, and will last for years. The detail draw¬ 
ings will make it all plain to an in¬ 
telligent workman. There is a half 
plan and section. In the plan, A, 
• A, A, are the 3 by 4 pieces; B, 
sash. In the vertical section, A is 
: E (besill, 2 by 7; F floor; 8 stool, B, 
^ - B, sash, and P plate. Under the 
B - stool it is boarded same us the 
house, and on the plate is a board 
eight inches wide. Reader, if you 
j wish to add a bay window to your 
} house, these drawings and direc- 
I tions, iu the bands of a carpenter 
who will consent to do what his old 
. j boss did not do titty years ago, will 
V . save you live years subscription to 
the Rural. Iu the kitchen I would 
place a double window, as shown 
in the plaD, (the roof is shown in the clevu- 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AJf OKIOHKAL WKBKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
With a Corp* of Able AMfetunta and Contributor*. 
FARM TENANT HOUSES-No. II 
HENftY 8. RANDALL, LL, D., 
Editor of tho Deportment of Sheep Husbandry, 
Own correspondent from New York city, 
J. Pi.anh, contributes tho following : — “I 
herewith send you a plan of a small cottage 
that in 6ize and cost is a little iu advance on 
the one given in a previous number of the 
HON. T. C. PETERS, 
Late Pres’t N.Y. State Ag. Soc’y. Southern Cor. Editor. 
W Fob Terms and other particulars see last page, 
SECTION OF PORTABLE FENCE, 
THE BARLEY CROP. 
This cereal is yearly growing in importance in 
this country. Its consumption for making beer 
is constantly increasing, which results in a larger 
area being sown with the grain, and in firmer 
and more uniform prices. With proper cultiva¬ 
tion, on soils specially prepared for and adapted 
to it, greater profit may be expected than from 
any other ordinary spring grain. 
Barley is not a deep feeder. It draws its 
substance from the top most strata of the earth 
—from live or six inches of surface soil. Hence, 
deep cultivation Is not necessary. It is, like¬ 
wise, specially adapted to precede a wheat crop, 
ina s much as the latter sends its roots Into the 
deep subsoil, taking thence the elements neces¬ 
sary to its growth. 
There is no one of our common grains which 
receives greater benefit from manure applied at 
the period of sowing—especially from green or 
unfermeoted manure—than barley. Its mass of 
fibrous roots, spreading through the surface soil 
discover and appropriate rapidly any nutritious 
elements contained therein. In the British 
Islands, where this crop is of great value, barley 
is usually sown on land that has been enriched 
and trodden through the winter by flocks of 
sheep, folded and fed on the preceding crop of 
turnips. The plowing lor preparing the seed 
bed is very shallow, so as to keep the manure 
near the surface, hut the soil is thoroughly pul¬ 
verized to the depth of its cultivation. 
In this country barley usually follows a hoed 
crop, and from the severity of onr climate the 
methods of manuring must differ from the 
British. As it is of great importance to sow 
very early in the spring, fall plowing should be 
practiced. Another advantage is thereby gained, 
which is the beneficial action of the frost and 
snows through the winter, on the upturned, 
rough clods, — ’ 
Anne Arundel County .—“Tho surface, save in 
the vicinity of rivers, is undulating and pleas¬ 
antly diversified. Near the Bay generally low, 
and in some places wet.” Prices of land vary 
from ¥5 to $100 per ucro. It Is a great county 
for “ truck,” as its easy access to markets makes 
a few acres of laud, well cultivated, yield a largo 
return. Some of the largest strawberry beds of 
the State are in this county. This county has 
a considerable water power only partially im¬ 
proved. 
Prince Qm-ffc's County — Has a fine soil, and 
with judicious cultivation will become a rich 
county, “Trucking,” however, has great in¬ 
ducements here us in the other counties. It has 
unrivalled market facilities. Land varies here 
as elsewhere in price, as it is located. 
I have now giveu a brief outline of some of 
the prominent features of tide or lower Mary¬ 
land. In many respects it undoubtedly offers 
great inducements to the emigrant. The culti¬ 
vation of poaches, sweet potatoes, melons and 
berries can be embarked in to an unlimited ex¬ 
tent, as tho markets of easy access are practically 
exhauBtless. The demand will always bo in ex¬ 
cess of (he supply, so that he who plants to-day 
has a moral certainty that any crop which can 
be realized will find a ready market and at re¬ 
munerating prices. Tho prices obtained for the 
produets of the peach orchard are almost fabu¬ 
lous. From $5,000 to $10,000 is no uncommon 
sum, and there are instances where single culti¬ 
vators take from $30,000 to $40,000 a year. — 
'r. o. F. 
M. Yon were then a stripling, emblematic, as 
now, of your paper—thin, lithe and agile; now 
rounded up and beoriug the matured propor¬ 
tions of riper manhood. The youngster (Rural) 
of only 3,000 is now the portly gentleman of 
60,000 and rising. Do you remember, my old 
frieud, In those early days taking me down to 
see your young w ife for the first time, and the 
first baby — that sweet lily, which, alas! with¬ 
ered so soon and fell from its stem! A comely 
blossom in my own household 
“Mirrors the semblance of a form,” 
that perchance might, otherwise have added sun¬ 
shine to your home and hearts. And then those 
many, many, oh ever so many happy times that 
we three (Mrs, M. and you and I,) have had 
around the “ register” in that dear old “ Com- 
hill" mansion, where we bo often found ourselves 
in such pleasant, moods of converse that the 
“ we sina’ hours" of the night would come all 
too soon. Ah! well Col.-But I sat down 
to write of 
TIJK WESTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND. 
In Its general soil and climate it is but an 
extension of the Eastern Shore, divided by the 
Bay. It is said of this section that it “ includes 
the earlier settlements of Lord Baltimore, and 
the capital ot the State, with all their historic 
associations and rich eld memories.” 
Soon after the settlement of St. Marys, large 
harvests of corn were made, and a trade sprang 
up with the colonies of New England in the 
exchange of grain for fish —and yet uotbing in 
New England equalled the fisheries at her own 
door. It is claimed that the earliest settled por¬ 
tions of Maryland were the best, and la many 
respects the most desirable. Whe* such a claim 
FARM TENANT HOUSE — ELEVATION 
Rural. This plan differs from that, mainly’, 
in the addition of a wing, to bo used as a 
kitchen, it is impossible now-n-iiuya to per¬ 
suade an American woman that she can live, 
move and have her being in a house that has 
not a best room; and when Bridget and Pat¬ 
rick unite their fortunes, they are not slow in 
learning that a little sitting-room, or parlor, 1 b 
an absolute necessity. It 5s useless to cite the 
accommodations our grandmothers possessed in 
days gone by. There has been an advance in 
social civilization. (Jive a family an extra room 
and it instills some pride in fixing it up and 
keeping it neatly. 
Persons in talking 
of building are very apt to 
say, “Better build a little larger while you arc 
about it; It will cost no more.” This is not bo ; 
it docs cost more, us they subsequently often 
find—the “little larger” leading them on to 
twice the expense they started with. In the 
construction of this cottage, I would proceed 
entirely as explained in the previous number. 
The main part of the house is 13 by 24, with a 
wing 10 by 13. The wing is same height as main 
part, otherwise it is poor economy to build it, 
as the same walls and roof are required for one 
story as for two. The parlor (marked A on the 
plan) is 13 by 14; kitchen (B on plan) 13 by 18. 
There is a bed room and a small pantry. In the 
chambers are three rooms. A bay window to 
the parlor is pleasant to the inmates and is an 
ornament to the house. It is six feet long, and 
projects from t he house two feet and one inch. 
By following the directions here given it ean be 
built at little cost. The labor and materials 
over the cost of sash and glass Bhould not 
exceed fifteen dollars, while by the common way 
of building it would cost three times that 
amount. The principle is that given in the 
previous number, iu regard to making window 
PORTABLE FENCE, 
Mr. L. J. Baldwin, Erie Co., Pa., sends us 
a drawing and description of a portable fence, 
which appears to us to havemany valuable points 
to recommend it to the notice of farmers. The 
sections can be cheaply and rapidly constructed. 
It is a straight fence, and therefore economizes 
room. The method of securing it In an upright 
position Is simple, and we should judge that It 
would be kept in its proper position by the brac¬ 
ing stakes, iu spite of strong efforts to over¬ 
throw it. Some simple fastening should be ap¬ 
plied to the bottom boards where the sections 
lap together, and we are inclined to think a 
somewhat higher fence then the one represented 
would be better. If any of our readers have a 
better plan, that is not patented, please send it 
along. In the meantime we advise every farmer 
to study how he may dispense with much ol the 
fencing on his farm, rather than increase it; at 
present wc know of no better way than to use 
portable fence, and take away the long lines of 
stationary interior rails and walla that are such 
costly disfiirtirmcnU to the farm. 
“ Farmers in many sections of the country 
are more or less anxious in regard to fences and 
fencing materials, which are becoming more 
scarce and difficult to procure every year. This 
difficulty, to some extent, could be obviated by 
using the Interior fences In making the outside 
ones permanent, and then using a portable Struc¬ 
ture for interior lines. That can be placed at 
Where the land is undrained, and 
holds water until late in the spring, it would be 
an excellent preparation to subsoil as deep bb 
possible in the fall. This would break the crust 
and allow the water to settle away from the sur¬ 
face very early. It would, likewise, bo of great 
benefit to the sncceedln; 
Though the seed should be 
possible in the sprin_ 
soil when it is too wet. It will, i u i 
of cases, be fatal to a large yield. 
PLAN OF BAY WINDOW. 
tion.) Over the door is a small gable supported 
by brackets.” 
[Southern Editorial Correspondence of the Kara!,] 
MY MARYLAND” —ITS RESOURCES, &C, 
wheat crop. 
60 wn as early as 
ig, beware of working the 
iu the majority 
_ . 1. Plow six 
inches deep, and harrow thoroughly. We prefer 
drilling to any other method of sowing, but the 
grain should not bo covered to a greater deplh 
than an inch or inch and a bulf. It is not a bad 
practice to harrow crosswise of the drill marks, 
after sowiug, Then be sure and not omit 
rolling. That operation, If the soil be in the 
proper condition, crushes the lumps, puts the 
email stone out. of the way of the reaper, and 
compacts the earth around the seed, helping it 
to germinate quickly. Roliiug may even "be 
preformed after the gruiu has sprouted, without 
detriment to it v The best way of manuring is 
to top-dress the ground after fall plowing. 
Manure may be drawn out in the winter time, 
and spread early in the spring and harrowed 
under. 
Barley sometimes yields well sown on fall 
plowed sod ground, or even on that spring 
plowed, but it is not a certain crop with such 
preparation. In the majority of cases it will 
fail. If it nmst be sown on such irrouud the 
NUMBER FOUR, 
Did yon ever, gentle reader, write for the 
“ press,” and take particular pains to write very 
plain so that your article should not read more 
nonsensical than properly belonged to it ? And 
did j’ou, after many days find that said article 
marred In some of its fairest features and made 
to read (he baldest kind of trash? If so, you 
can imagine the amiable mood of my temper at 
reading the two first and thus lur the only arti¬ 
cles which I have seen in print What did the 
proofreader mean by mokiugiue say “ out-lets” 
to Eden iu the first article? Was he thinking 
of sewers or drains to Eve’s duck ponds ? And 
then in the next article I am made tu Bay North¬ 
ern Shore, when who ever heard of anything 
but Eastern and Western Shore in Maryland ? 
There are a good many other little slips which 
mar the sense — but let them go and hope for 
better things when my MSS. is more familiar 
in the office, and among the proof renders. And 
yet my hand-writing ought not to be strange 
there. There has not been a single volume of 
the Rural from its very first number of the 
very first volume that 
me product ol grain, including oats, is much 
less per acre than on the other shore, which is 
not counter balanced by hay or any other arti¬ 
cle. But when we add the peach crop, as well 
as melons, sweet potatoes, &c., I fear that there 
is some defect iu this once garden of Maryland. 
The difficulty is probably not 60 much in the 
soil as iu the owner. 
8t. Marys County is “low and level in the 
southeast and middle parts; but in the north¬ 
west It is undulating.” A large amount of land 
is for sale on very moderate terms. | 
Charles County .—“ The surface of this county, 
like that of St. Mary’s, resembles the Eastern 
Shore, and is low and sandy, with scarcely a 
rock in its whole extent,” Fruits are abundant, 
and varied, and the price of land does not mate¬ 
rially vary from the lands of the opposite shore. 
Calvert County. — The surface is undulating; 
soil, a soft fine mold, except near the Patuxent 
river, where it is more clayey. All the grains 
grow well. Timber — oak, chestnut, pine and 
GROUND FLAN. 
frames—that is, uBe solid timbers to form easings 
instead of nailing together boards, as carpenters 
generally do. For instance, in making a small 
verandah columu, how much better and cheaper 
it is to use a solid stick, say five inches square, 
than to nail two strips of inch pine four inches 
wide, to two strips three inches svide. 
To make this bay window,‘take 2 by 7 pieces 
some of my written 
thoughts have not been found in the composi¬ 
tors’ room. To the “ Mayor” at least, my pecu¬ 
liar chiroerapby must be as familiar as his own 
tracks when he used to go “ courting.” 
Speaking of the Mayor;—long, long ago, in 
the younger days of the Rural, he used to be 
Captain. And those younger days!—my memory 
