. The lure of the land . In a day the cellar was dug, ready for the erection of the came like a pack of cards, was erected in two days by a carpenter andhis helper, and looked most ridiculous with the windows curtainedbefore the roof went on. This is the way it was arranged, leaving outa partition at the western end and making four rooms instead of was heated by a very small 6-hole eat stove and a No. 0 hotstove in the office. Into this house we put the English longshoreman,his wife and little girl; they remained all Winter, finding the housemore comfortable than the average m
. The lure of the land . In a day the cellar was dug, ready for the erection of the came like a pack of cards, was erected in two days by a carpenter andhis helper, and looked most ridiculous with the windows curtainedbefore the roof went on. This is the way it was arranged, leaving outa partition at the western end and making four rooms instead of was heated by a very small 6-hole eat stove and a No. 0 hotstove in the office. Into this house we put the English longshoreman,his wife and little girl; they remained all Winter, finding the housemore comfortable than the average modern frame house. 33. Floor Plan Early in the life history of the Farm, we roughly sketched the planof campaign, chicken house, barn, house, and well were plotted. Nextcame the orchard, which was to cover an acre of ground. No farm orcountry place, no matter how small, is complete without some fruit; it isa permanent improvement, to draw more and more interest as timegoes by. It was our plan to experiment with fruit in this way. Firstly, putin many named varieties of many kinds of fruit and find what wasbest adapted to the locality; secondly, to procure the stock fromwidely differing sections, both north and south of us, to see whichchange of latitude would show the greater advantage. Many nights were spent poring over catalogues, and at last theorders were given, each a duplicate of the other and an accompanyingletter stating the nature of the experiment, that the stock would beplanted at the same time side by side. One order went to northernNew York State, one to southern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanias came
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