'AGRICULTURE 
TWO DOLLARS Ax YELAJEb.] 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-EOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1863 
5WHOLE NO. 677 
SUBURBAN OR FARM HOUSE. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AX ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY A NT) FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Accompanying 
this I send yon the plans of a house lately built 
and occupied by myself and family, and which 
we have found to be very convenient. In fact, 
we are so well pleased with it that I have pre¬ 
vailed on the architect to reduce tlie drawings to 
the proper size for publication, hoping they may 
find a place in the Rural, and believing that 
many of your readers, farmers and mechanics, 
will find it, if not worth copying, at least in some 
features worthy of imitation. 
Description. — This bouse, which is built of 
wood, stands in the midst of an Evergreen grove, 
on the summit of a small knoll, in the village of 
Baldwinsville. Onondaga county. Its principal 
dimensions are as follows:—Main part. 20 by 31 
feet; front projection 14 by 10; back wing 22 by 
27: front part, first story. 10, and second story 9 
feet between ceilings; the back part 91 feet first 
story, and SI feet in the second. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, 
With a CorpB of Abie Assistants and Contributors, 
C. 1>. BRAOnON, Western Corresponding Editor. 
Tan Run At. Nkw-YorkkR is ilminied tube unsurpassed 
in Value, Purity and Variety of Contents, and utiinue and 
bountiful in Appearance. Its Conductor devote-: his per¬ 
sonal attention to the supervision of its various depart¬ 
ments, and earnestly labors to render the Rural an 
eminently Reliable Guide on all the important Practical, 
Scientific and other Subjects intimately connected with 
the bn-iiioM of those whose interests it zealously advo¬ 
cates, A«a Family Jor rival. it is eminently instructive 
and Enterhiloinu —being so conducted that it Can be safely 
taken to the Homes of people of intelligence, taste and 
discrimination. It embraces more Agricultural, Horticul¬ 
tural, Scientific, Educational, Literary and News Matter, 
interspersed with appropriate Engravings, than any other 
journal,— rendering- it the most complete Ac!Rion.Tt7RAU 
Litkrary ami Family Newspai-ek in America. 
l'~ For Terms and other particulars, see last page, 
VOLUME XIV-INTRODUCTORY. 
Cordial congratulations of the season to all 
our readers, and a few remarks as we enter upon 
the active duties anil labors of the Fourteenth 
Year and Volume of the Rural New-Yorker. 
But no,—this is not the initial work of the vol¬ 
ume; for we have already prepared most of the 
matter for the present number, and now hur¬ 
riedly indite what the printers say is lacking-— 
a Lead HR. Aye, a Loader is uot only wanted 
for this week's Rural, but in many Govern¬ 
ments, Institutions and Places. Governments. 
Cabinets and Annies (their companies, regiments, 
brigades, divisions and corps)—all require loyal, 
brave and wise lea dvrs. In many States, Brov¬ 
in con, Cities, Towns and School Districts, leaders 
of the right caliber are in demand. The same 
is true, also, of many institutions of learning and 
business enterprises. Every Farm needs a judi¬ 
cious, thinking, industrious leader — one who not 
only ably plans but properly care ideas—who says 
“come, boys." and sees that every labor is per¬ 
formed in tla' best manner and most appropriate 
season. Every Family should have an intelli¬ 
gent and discriminating leader—one capable of 
providing for the material, mental and moral 
interests of its members. But we need not enu¬ 
merate, for leaders are wanted in the various 
departments of the Government, in societies and 
in communities. Brains and Industry— Energy. 
Pluck and Tact —are in demand almost every¬ 
where, and whenever they are properly exercised 
or applied, tell wonderfully in developing (lie 
resources of any country, and promoting the 
progress, improvement and prosperity of any 
people or nation. Men and women who can 
plan and perforin—who are imbued with a clear 
conception of any required duty or labor, and 
are capable of discharging it properly — have 
always been “few and far between," and espe¬ 
cially when it was difficult to achieve important 
and useful results. 
But we must not digress from the title and 
purpose of this article, and therefore turn to 
matters of a more personal character. The 
Rural New-Yorker would be a leader—in 
fact, is—in circulation anil position among its 
contemporaries, and especially in efforts tending 
to influence and prepare its myriad of readers to 
become lenders in the various useful departments 
and avocations of life and business. Those who 
have read it for years know how earnestly we 
have labored to instruct, entertain, and encour¬ 
age the various members of every Family vis¬ 
ited, never omitting the Women and Children— 
Got* bless them everywhere! Some of its en¬ 
vious contemporaries, without even a tithe of its 
circulation or influence, have sueeriugly alluded 
to the Rural as a Family journal. Would that 
they, and many other journals, were worthy the 
name — more tit to be carefully read and studied 
at the firesides of the People! 
As we have said and repeated aforetime, we 
now reiterate—especially for the eyes and ears of 
the thousands of recruits who are now joining 
the HrliAi. Brigade— that ••Our object from the 
commencement of the Rural New-Yorker has 
not been to furnish either an Agricultural, Hor¬ 
ticultural, Scientific, Mechanical, Educational, 
Literary, or News journal, but rather to com¬ 
bine all these, and thus present a paper uuc- 
qualeil in Value, Variety and Usefulness of 
Contents. Our earnest desire has ever been to 
entrance porch, which we find answers every 
purpose for our use. The door leading to the 
dining-room, as well as the from, being glazed, 
affords a street view from that room. The parlor, 
it w ill be seen, is connected with the dining-room 
by large folding doors. The bay window in the 
front is dispensed with, and in its place is a 
coupled window. If tin* side views were such as 
to make it desirable, windows could be put in 
under the veranda. The china closet marked 
j. we find to be one of the nicest arrangements 
for passing crockery from one room to the other. 
The stairway, although not as showy or expen¬ 
sive as ballisters, we find to be convenient, lead¬ 
ing to the back as well as trout chambers the 
closet and cellar stairway rendering every inch 
of room available. In the chambers there are 
live sleeping rooms, anil a stove room that may 
be divided, making the rooms for servants if 
desired. The cellar is eight feet in the dear, the 
walls entirely of concrete, and thus tar appear to 
be as perfect as stone walls, though costiug less 
than half as much. 
This is the season for plans. What the New 
Year shall bring forth must depend much on the 
plans we may make or adopt. The architect 
furnishes a design lor a building, which is 
adopted before the builder is committed w ith the 
work. The engineer makes his surveys, drawings. 
plans, before any work is undertaken. Plans 
are the brains of all projects—and their charac¬ 
ter determines the success or otherwise of most 
enterprises. To plan right, as a farmer, requires 
much know ledge and a sound judgment—a dear 
insight into the laws of cause and efleet Now. 
for at least a month or more the prudent farmer 
can employ his time profitably in carefully com¬ 
paring the figures the past lias made fur him. and 
as carefully considering the possibilities of the 
future with the aid of figures and sound reason. 
Plans, to be made successful, should be intelli¬ 
gently made. On the part of the farmer they 
require a thorough knowledge of the wants ol 
tlie market, of the sources of supply, and of the 
relative amount of the different products of tlie 
farm in store in the country, and in the hands of 
producers. There is no class of facts, perhaps, 
which ought to influence each farmer's husbandry 
more titan these, unless it be the adaptation of 
tin* soil to the production of certain crops. The 
farmer is in a way a manufacturer, lie supplies 
a demand for consumption from his farm. The 
character of that demand should govern the char¬ 
acter of the seed sown or of the animals bred. 
Every day is tendering mow' and more valuable 
to the farmers the statistical tables of Commercial 
reports : and the time will yet come when figures 
that may be published the first day of January, 
will govern the character of the crops of the 
country for the year, in all parts where a surplus 
for foreign export is grown. 
Let the plans be well digested. But let there 
bo a plan! Ho not let it embrace more than can 
be accomplished w ell. And see to it that what 
it does embrace, is well accomplished in good 
season. All good plaus embrace a careful esti¬ 
mate of resources and a concise disposition of 
them, so as to render them as productive as pos¬ 
sible. 
principal story. 
A. Parlor 13Jfc-xl5. B, Dining Room 16 L ,,\19. C, Li¬ 
brary firixlO. D, Bed room 12x13. E, Kitchen 14x15. 
F\ Wood-room 11x12. t!, Bed or Bath-room OJ-jxll. H, 
Veranda. I, J, Closets. K, Pantry, 6x12. L, Porch 
OxCSj. 
ventilating turret. 
A, Outside. B, Section. C. Emerson Ventilator. 
The outside is painted in parti-colors—the 
weather-boarding a cream made of one part raw 
timber, two parts raw sienna, ami one-fourth ot 
one part burnt umber to one hundred parts lead 
and oil. The trimmings more of an orange, made 
by mixing Indian red and chrome yellow with 
white. All the inside is finished in a plain, tasty 
style. 
The kitchen, bed-rooms, chambers, and all 
smaller rooms are finished with a simple half- 
8EC0XD STORY. 
A, Chamber 13-.xlo. B, Chamber 12x12. C, Cham¬ 
ber 12x13 u. D, Hall. K, Bed-room 8‘*x»2H'. F, Bed¬ 
room llfrxll.V 0, Store-cooui 11x21. H, Closet. 
The plans, which are drawn to a scale of sixteen 
feet to the inch, will In) readily understood. The 
usual front hall and ballister stair-way. are dis¬ 
pensed with, and its place supplied by the 
