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from this room. The dairy kitchen is of the same size as the main 

 kitchen ; it has conveniencies for a boiler or two, and is lighted from 

 the south side. A flight of stairs leads from this room to the ice- 

 cellar beneath, and another over them to the shed chamber ; and a 

 door opens upon the piazza or recess near the wood-shed, (this recess 

 in front of these kitchens will be found by the farmer's wife a con- 

 venient place for drying dairy utensils, &c.) Connected with this 

 room are a cheese room and a milk room, with windows to the north, 

 the sash of which should be hung so as to swing eithei? out or in, 

 and its place in warm weather to be supplied with a wire gause ; 

 and the doors also should have shutters of the same material, to 

 exclude insects, and at the same time admit the air freely. In the 

 milk room are shelves on each side, and a pump and sink near the 

 window. In the cheese room, the rows of shelves for curing cheese 

 are in the centre of the room, with a passage between and around 

 them, and near the window a table upon which to turn and dress it. 



The chamber floor contains five large chambers, with commodious 

 clothes presses ; the two middle rooms are lighted by the gable 

 windows. 



The large well lighted work-shop, with sliding doors, wood-shed, 

 piggery and henery are contained in a long building, extending 

 across the rear of the house to the northeast corner of the barn. 

 The piggery has convenient pens, and with yards in the rear ; the 

 feeding room has a boiler for cooking food, boiling water, &c., and 

 is to be ventilated by the windows on each side. Next comes the 

 laying apartment of the henery, which is furnished with tiers of 

 nesting boxes on each side ; a door from this leads into the living 

 and roosting room ; the south end of which should either be wholly 

 of glass, or contain two large windows, to attract the warmth of the 

 winter sun. 



The barn is high, with underground stalls and a stone basement ; 

 the doors are large and move on rollers — a large window over each, 

 for ventilation. In the rear, on each side of the large doors, is a 

 leanto 15 by 15 ; the south one, as a small stable ; the other as an 

 entrance to the carriage house. The threshing floor is in the centre, 

 in which are trap doors for the purpose of letting hay to the stalls 

 underneath. On the right is the bay ; on the left is a granary, 

 storage room, in which is a pump, and a large carriage house. 



