Village Improvements and Farm Villages

No one thing has more to do with the comfort of those living in country villages than sidewalks which are good at all seasons of the year. Those fortunate villages which are bui...

The change that is now taking place, especially in New England, is toward the greater economy of living, and the harder work and closer management of business, that comes with i...

What is said above applies especially to country roads; but it is appropriate, so far as it goes, to the better-made and better-kept roads of a village. In the case of these lat...

The average farmer is precisely what any other average man would be who had grown up under the same conditions. There is no mysterious charm belonging to his occupation which re...

The characteristic feature of the village we are now considering is that it is to consist of a single long, straight street cut off at each end by other roads. After removing on...

For roadsides, and largely in parks and village greens, the world offers no tree that can compare in dignity and grace with the broad-spreading American elm; though, for the sak...

Where an unobjectionable natural outflow cannot be provided, the irrigation of agricultural lands affords the best relief. The action of vegetation, the oxidation which takes in...

With a suitable public supply of water for the purpose, and with a suitable means of disposal, nothing can be better and nothing is more easily kept in good condition than well-...

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~A FARMER'S VACATION.~ Sketches of Travel in Europe; with a very complete Account of the Drainage of the Great Haarlem Lake in Holland; Notes on Dutch Farming; a Journey in Norm...