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door-yard, and whose utmost limits are counted by the foot. 

 Our motto may be that of the old M'nrrior: 



" No pent-up Utica contracts our powers, 

 The whole boundless continent is ours." 



The house should be located, like Burns' Montgomery, 

 " Where summer first unfolds her charms, and where she 

 longest tarries." While we think of it, can there be a more 

 desirable situation than a family thus located ? Perhaps the 

 plac3 made sacred by its having bean the residence of 

 " parents^ passed into the skies." In a country where each 

 man can own his own farm and till the farm that he owns 

 it cannot be expected that his buildings will be as pretentious 

 as those of the lord with inherited possessions too large for his 

 own inspection even. The house should be located as near, 

 the center of the farm as circumstances will admit. A 

 given amount of room can be more cheaply had in a two 

 story, upright house than in any other form. Many reasons 

 . could be given in favor of the two story, upright house. 

 First, the chambers are more desirable in summer. The 

 attic is a protection from the scorching heat of the sun, and 

 in winter, the roof, being at a greater distance from the 

 more heated parts of the house, is not troubled with the 

 snow meltino- and ao-ain freezino; at the eaves, forming: a 

 dam to turn the water back again into the house. How 

 many houses have been half ruined in this way, to say noth- 

 ing about inconvenience and vexation. 



The rooms most in use should be in the sunniest and most 

 pleasant part of the house. The kitchen should have every 

 convenience that modern ingenuity can suggest ; just large 



