302 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Dwelling House. —No one can pretend to be a good mana¬ 
ger of a farm, who has not provided decent quarters for his 
family. A decent house therefore becomes the first requisite; 
and this should in every respect be such as is worthy to form 
a farmer’s home; it should neither be a hut nor a palace; it 
should be spacious without being vast, and neat without being 
grand. It would seem as though most farmers were vain of 
their skill in architecture, at least if we take their houses as 
specimens of it; than which, for the most part, nothing can be 
less charming in appearance, or less commodious in arrange¬ 
ment. It would save farmers much trouble, expense and dis¬ 
comfort, if they did not build before they had thoroughly di¬ 
gested their own plans, or what is better, before they had con¬ 
sulted some competent architect on the subject. A farm house 
should always have a good cellar, as well as a cistern to hold 
rain water, and an adjoining shed to keep wood. These useful 
appendages will be highly pleasing to the good house wife, and 
consequently immensely conducive to the welfare and happi¬ 
ness of the family. 
Garden and Orchard. —If an abundant supply of veget¬ 
ables and fruits be at all deemed essential to rustic enjoyment, 
then these two ancient institutions, and emblems of civilization, 
demand particular and honorable notice. As nothing pays 
better in profit and pleasure, than a well-cultivated garden, and 
a well managed orchard it is astonishing that these should be so 
generally neglected. 
Many farmers have no gardens, more have no orchards, 
and all do not pay to them that attention which they so emi¬ 
nently deserve. More care on this point would materially en¬ 
hance the comforts of the farmer, besides lessening those long 
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store bills, with which they are so grievously afflicted. There¬ 
fore, it is emphatically insisted that three or four acres should 
at once be reserved for the above purposes. It is the farmer’s 
first duty. When Noah left the ark, he immediately planted 
a vineyard; and his example should be followed by all, and es¬ 
pecially by the first settlers upon our public territories. 
