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NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
5 Heelminn HI, 
82 liultalo Hi. 
New York 
Rochester. 
FOH THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY U , 1871 
[Entered accord In/? to Act of CoriKrei 
D. T. Mooiti:, in tlic office of the Librarian of Con/tress, at Washington.] 
is unlike the six-horse wagon arrangement of 
early days. 
“Unele Daniel,” as he is familiarly 
known to a large circle of friends and de¬ 
scendants, is in many respecls a remarkable 
man. He is considerably below the medium 
liight, but he possesses a singularly strong, 
wonderful equanimity of tem- 
a I his great age, lie is 
but, as his neighbors say, 
»” While his step 
I’m nil ^Vrrihtccturc 
I hirdly, Air. Ayres introduces a new sys¬ 
tem of healing, dispensing with plunging or 
fermenting material for bottom heat, "and 
substitutes a system by which a stream of 
air, moist or dry, is constantly passing 
through the center of the earth contain- 
the roots of the plants, as well ns around 
the sides ol the pot. For glazing, Air. 
Ayres uses flat glass of great strength and 
quality, jointed with transparent cement, or 
lie may use glass turned up at the sides, or 
any Other form of bent glass that he may 
liml necessary for the purposes of his inven¬ 
tion. '['he alleged advantages are, economy 
in first construction, portability (when de¬ 
sired), and when manufactured in iron, gal¬ 
vanized, a house so imperishable ns to wear 
for a lifetime without further cost. 
r okker, always testing and putting into 
practice any new idea of practical utility. 
The question with him now is, which one of 
all the contrivances lor fasteniug cows m the 
bam is the best for that purpose? And be- 
li 1 \ iug that Afr. \Iooue or some of his prac¬ 
tical Rural writers can best, solve the ques¬ 
tion, he w r ould be pleased to see some of the 
best forma of stanch¬ 
ions illustrated in some 
of the early future 
numbers ofthc Rural 
I believe such illus¬ 
trations would gratify 
many readers 
Rural Nbw-Y 
NOTES TOR BUILDERS 
To Fix Sinews in Old Hole*. 
A correspondent of t.lic Gardener’s 
Alonthly says:—“Some weeks ago a ‘regu¬ 
lar’ carpenter here bad to put up a screw in 
an old hole; lie sharpened a piece of wood 
iron fra mo, 
per, and even now 
not bowed down 
“ is as straight as an Indian 
has almost the elas¬ 
ticity of youth. His 
faculties seem scarcely 
impaired, except that 
lib eyesight is partially 
affected. He seems to 
feel undiminished in¬ 
terest in the propel 
culture and manage¬ 
ment of his farm, and 
looks after his stock 
and attends to his 
“ chores” about as well 
as he ever did. (July 
last, summer lie clam¬ 
bered up a ladder to 
“ help," as lie said, in 
re-shingling one of his 
barns, and descended 
to the ground without 
accident, or assistance. 
His memory of early 
dajs, eveu to the clos¬ 
ing years of the Revo¬ 
lution, is quite clear 
and distinct, lie says 
he remembers the 
Frenchmen who came Jk, 
over to help us, ami 
had an encampment. / | 
near Rrattleboro’; hut 
they had little or no ^////K 
lighting lellto do. Of 
course Air. Fox is a V-Mk 
pattern of temperance, v$f|p 
regularity and frugal¬ 
ity, and these habits 
date hack to early 
youth, lie is a spleu- 
did specimen of a 
thrifty, independent and contented fi 
He is surrounded by his descendants 
second and third generation, mail 
whom are among our most, n mmetr., 
of the 
ORKEK. 
—W. A. C., Satina, 
JV. Y. 
Will not our read¬ 
ers contribute sketches 
of their contrivances 
for mutual benefit. We 
will gladly engrave 
and publish a sample 
SKlfc fT 1 '- 
An IuipeviNliitble llut. 
bonne. 
From | lie recently 
published list of Eng 
intents in the Const ruc- 
painl, or any wood¬ 
work outside, and con¬ 
sequently no painting 
will at any time be re. 
quired. 
Secondly, Air. Ayres forms his floors, plant 
stages, and side or partition walls in slabs of 
cement concrete, strengthened in a peculiar 
manner so us to bear any amount of pressure 
that may be placed upon them, ami yet ad¬ 
mit of being perforated for the air to circulate 
through them, paneled to hold water for 
evaporation, or the pots to stand in, or per¬ 
forated and paneled. These slabs, it is 
said, can be manufactured of any required 
strength, and consequently are suitable for 
fire-proof floors, partition walls, tabling or 
shelving for shop, office or 
l’ONitiou of Kurni Riiildiwra, 
There is fur too much attention given to 
the points of the compass in placing of farm 
buildings. If the roads run north and south 
every building on the place is very likely to 
bo placed facing due cast or west without 
regard to the formation of the land or sur¬ 
roundings. In fact most of our country 
homes have a stillness or monotonous ap¬ 
pearance which might he avoided if due care 
was given to the proper arrangement of out¬ 
buildings. It is very much like making 
curves in walks when there is no reason for 
deviating from a .straight line, which should 
never be done. If there is no obstacle in the 
way which we seemingly avoid in making a 
curve, one should he created, and the same 
principle should he carried out in the place¬ 
ment of fafn i buildings, Avoid all stiff 
formality, and if the position of the ground 
or convenience affords an onnorlunitv for 
DANIEL FOX. 
with a chisel, drove it. in, cut it level with 
the surface, made another hole with a brad 
awl, and sent in the screw. In about a week 
t lie screw, wood, plug and all were out again. 
1 reasoned on this that some clastic thing 
would bo better for the plug, as it would till 
up the inequalities and 4 bite’ better. Bo 1 
rammed long, narrow strips of cork in before 
putting the screw in, and it is astonishing 
what a good job it makes.” 
Seuaonliiu VV«od. 
A writer in an English journal informs 
us that small pieces of non-resinous wmod 
csui be seasoned perfectly by boiling four or 
five hours- the process taking the sap out of 
tbo wood, which shrinks nearly one-tenth iu 
the operation. The same writer states that 
tices felled in full leaf in June or July, and 
allowed to lie until every leaf has fallen, will 
then be nearly dry, us the leaves will not 
drop of themselves until they have drawn up 
and exhausted all the sap of the tree. The 
time required is from a moitf.h to six weeks, 
warehouse fittings 
or for any situations where slate or marble 
slabs have hitherto been used, with the ad- 
fetlllM'liiou Wauled. 
Our neighbor, Baum, who has a nice 
farm well fenced, uuderdrained and stocked, 
and who makes a specialty of' tine buildings 
is now erecting a stock-farm which for com¬ 
fort, convenience and beauty will, when 
completed, compare favorably with any sim¬ 
ilar structure in the State. 
Air. B. is a progressive man who keeps up 
with the times in all the modern iinprove- 
g-byrmlajn sum; 
'.rr ’ U1 &ll0rt ’ he ,jas witnessed 
<1 by all those wonderful improve- 
agnoulture which renders the busi- 
muike farming half a century ago as 
a modern frei,..1,1 J.S*? 
