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S^rofits from Smalt l^cii'ms. 



a hall opening into a servant's room, 8 x 14, and into two good cellars, both of 

 ■which have floors laid on chestnut beams bedded in grout, as in fact have all the 

 other basement rooms. 



The cellar is 8^ feet high in the clear, and the walls are of stone, with the excep- 

 tion of those fronts which are exposed — they being of brick and painted. 



The principal story 

 10 feet square, and a 

 same dimensions, sepa- 

 by a screen made of 

 are %\ feet wide, and 

 for coats. The pantry 

 and is filted up with 

 butler's pantry, sink for 

 plied with hot and cold 



The parlor and dining 



same size, 15 x 16 feet, j-^^^p^ 

 French window through 

 the yard, and the dining 

 window opening out 

 Both rooms connect 

 wide. This story is 



In the second story, 



has an entrance hall 

 stairs and hall of the 

 rated from each other 

 chestnut. The stairs 

 under them is a closet 

 is 10 feet square also, 

 cupboards, and has a 

 washing dishes in, sup- 

 water from the range, 

 room are both of the 

 The first has a large 

 which one can pass to 

 room has a similar 

 upon a large balcony, 

 with a veranda 9 feet 

 1.0.^ feet high. 

 a small hall-way or 



Second J'^loor — Side Hill Coftat/e. 



passage at the head of the stairs opens into three chambers, two of which are 13 feet 

 square, and the third about G^- feet square. This story is 10 feet high in the middle 

 of the room, falling away to 3 feet at the extreme eaves, where they are furred out 

 to make the finished height 6 feet in the lowest part. The spaces furred ofi" may 

 serve for closets. 



This cottage was designed to be a frame cottage, boarded and clapboarded, and 

 also filled in with brick for greater protection against cold. The interior finish, of 

 pine stained, or of chestnut oiled; and the floors of all of the first story of Southern 

 pine, laid with a border of black walnut all around, 12 inches wide. The floors of 

 the second story of narrow pine plank. The estimated cost is $3,200. 



Profits from Small Farms. 



THE following account of how a small farm and truck patch of twenty acres was 

 managed upon Long Island, is taken from a paper read by J. W. De Lee Ree, presi- 

 dent of the Farmers' Club at Farmingdale, N. Y. The design of it is to show how a 

 living is made on small farms of twenty to thirty acres, near New York, and that 

 larger farms than this prove to be less profitable than those smaller : 



When practicable, such a farm is divided into seven parts, six of which are three- 

 acre lots for tillage, and the seventh is occupied with the buildings, poultry yard, 

 kitchen garden, and an orchard of about one hundred and fifty apple and pear trees. 

 Other fruit trees, such as cherry, are planted by the road side, and so answer the 



