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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Jan. 
kitchen, and bed-room and pantry on the other; such 
kitchens are good for nothing to work in. 
Those little attic windows are so nice and conveni¬ 
ent for chambers, so easily cleaned, just high enough 
to look from when sitting in a chair, and are out of the 
way of children. I do detest large chamber windows, 
coming almost to the floor ,• it is such a big job to clean 
them, and so much danger of children falling out. 
What can be more unwished for, than a great 
house on a farm, with two or three flights of 
stairs? I would not purchase a farm with such a 
dwelling house Upon it, unless I wished to live 
in perfect slavery. 
A farmer’s wife has exercise enough during 
the year, without more room to take care of than 
is actually necessary. 
How many great awkward 2-story farm houses, 
we see, with the front part shut up and inhabit¬ 
ed only by spiders and flies. Then little cotta¬ 
ges, with two or three wings patched on to them; 
if their internal arrangement is as irregular as 
their external appearance, they must be prodi¬ 
giously inconvenient. 
I do wonder that men of sense, will erect such dwel¬ 
lings. When some persons undertake to build a farm¬ 
house, the first and most important consideration is to 
be sure and have it look well on the outside, to arrest 
the attention of the passer-by. When this purpose is 
accomplished, they are abundantly satisfied; it matters 
not how inconvenient or unpleasant they are within. 
Some persons think a milk-house, ought to be built 
partly of stone, with stone floor. This is a mistake; 
stone causes dampness, which prevents cream from ri¬ 
sing. Milk requires a dry, cool place. 
There ought to be shade trees, on the south and west 
side of the dairy house. This house will be easily 
built, easy to live in, easy to be paid for. The cost, in¬ 
cluding dairy house, if well built, about 1,000 dollars. 
This is just as I should want a house at all times and 
seasons. 
If necessary or desirable, the space at the side of the 
kitchen chimne}^ marked for kettle closet, could be con¬ 
verted into a bathing room, and but a trifling expense 
would be necessary to construct a shower bath, and 
might save sickness and the dreaded “ doctor’s bill.” 
A Farmer’s Wife. N. Y. 
A Two-story Sheep-Barn. 
The annexed engraving represents a barn for shel¬ 
tering sheep. The plan is adopted and recommended 
by Mr. S. W. Jewett, of Weybridge, Vermont. It 
will be seen that the building has two floors for the 
sheep—thus doubling the accommodations. Mr. J. 
says, a shed 18 by 26 feet, with posts 13 feet high, 
An Acrostic. 
Another year, its wings hath spread, 
I hght sits the crown upon its head; 
Bring flowers of Hope, a garland twine 
Around the infant Forty-nine— 
Nor seek to stay his flight with tears, 
Yet stored for sins of former years. 
Contributors and patrons dear, 
Untrammelled we present our cheer— 
List’ning to all, with willing mind, 
To find the truth we’re still inclin’d; 
Intending always to advance 
Various improvements, which, perchance, 
Assist the hardy sons of toil, 
To become masters of the soil. 
Onward our course—which to maintain, 
Remember, friends, your aid we claim. 
Economy of Labor may be attained in many ways 
upon the farm, by the exercise of thought. A single 
example,—by building the barn on a side hill, so that 
the loaded team may be driven pretty well up towards 
the roof, and so that the load may be pitched down 
instead of up, would prevent a great deal of hard 
exercise of sinews in elevating the loaded fork. 
Analysis of Soil. —Pro. J. P. Norton of Yale 
College, thinks that a good agricultural chemist can¬ 
not be made with less than two years of experimental 
study, in this particular department. 
13 —two-story sheep barn. 
will make room for two flocks of sixty in each, inclu¬ 
ding the space occupied by the feeding boxes. The 
sheds should be lighted and ventillated by slide win¬ 
dows on each side. 
“ Some of these sheep-barns,” says Mr. J., “ I 
build of sufficient size to contain hay at one end. The 
cut here given shows one of this class, 25 by 34 feet; 
12 feet at one end is occupied for storing hay; the door 
represented at A. is the pitching hole. The basement 
is constructed with double doors of sufficient width for 
backing in a cart or sled. To accommodate in loading 
the manure from above, we raise a plank in the floor. 
Some of these sheds are erected near our hay-barns, 
where we can take advantage of the rising ground to 
obtain access for the sheep to the upper story. At oth¬ 
er places the ground is artificially raised at one end, as 
in the accompanying draft.” It is proper to remark 
that the upper floor should be so tight that the manure 
and urine should not fall on the sheep below, as it would 
injure their fleeces. 
Sausage C itter. 
The annexed 
cut represents 
a valuable ma¬ 
chine for cut¬ 
ting sausage 
meat, where 
the business is 
extensivelycar- 
ried on. It is 
very general¬ 
ly used in the 
New England 
states. It 
makes a great 
saving of labor 
over the old 
mode of chop¬ 
ping. One man 14— sausage cutter. 
can cut from eighty to a hundred pounds of meat an 
hour. The teeth being set spirally round the cylinder, 
the meat is conveyed, in turning it, from the place 
where it is put in, to the opposite end of the machine, 
where it is discharged through an orifice in the under 
side. It is made sufficiently fine by being once passed 
through. The price of the machine is $12.50. A 
smaller kind, which will perform the work by the meat 
being passed twice through, is sold at $5. For sale at 
the Albany Agricultural Warehouse. 
