1 5 io The Cornell Reading-Courses 



9. Figure out a system of storage rooms that will hold the family supplies 

 and such products as need to be sold or handled from the residence assuming 

 that the family is six persons and the place a general farm of one hundred 

 acres. 



10. Plan the simplest and most compact arrangement of rooms so as to 

 accommodate properly a family of six persons on a farm of one hundred 

 and fifty acres. 



n. Devise a system of light power that can be applied to household 

 work, and indicate the kinds of work that may be effected by it. The 

 plan may contemplate a water-power outfit, a windmill, a gas or hot-air 

 engine, or an installation through electric wires. 



1 2 . Plan a garden or a yard that shall be a real supplement to the house. 

 I do not now have in mind so much the raising of vegetables and fruits for 

 the household supply, as the providing of pleasant outdoor spaces for 

 reading, sitting, dining, and the like. Every opportunity should be seized 

 to get the farmer and his family out of doors, since contact with nature in 

 hours of leisure will add much to the resourcefulness of their lives. 



Standardized houses 



We very much need standardized plans for farm dwellings. Such plans 

 would indicate the nature of the problem, how all the parts of the residence 

 are related to one another, to the needs of the family, and to the needs of 

 the farm. 



We are now working out standard schemes of farm management. It is 

 not expected that any plan will be followed literally by any particular 

 farmer; but it is possible to study the underlying principles of a farm 

 organization that shall be economically most feasible. Similarly we ought 

 to have such a knowledge of household necessities as will give us some 

 rather definite working statements on the best general arrangement of 

 rooms, the floor space per person, the size of the house in relation to the 

 size of the farm, how large one kind of room may be with reference to 

 another kind, the proportionate outlay that may be devoted to house and 

 barn and to the farm. I do not have in mind the ready-made plans that 

 we see in the public prints, but rather a set of working principles. A 

 person should be able to apply these principles at the same time that he 

 expresses his personal tastes and varies the plan in its details. 



