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CHAPTERXI1I. 



FARM BUILDINGS. 



Great neglect is manifest in this country, in the erection 

 of suitable farm buildings. The deficiency extends not only 

 to their number, which is often inadequate to the wants of the 

 (arm, but more frequently to their location, arrangement and 

 manner of construction. The annual losses which occur in 

 consequence of this neglect, would in a few years, furnish 

 every farm in the Union with barns and out-houses entirely 

 sufficient tor the necessities of each. We will give briefly 

 in detail, the leading considerations which should govern the 

 farmer in their construction. 



THE FARM HOUSE. 



If this is required for the occupation of the owner, it may 

 be of any form and size his means and taste dictate. If for 

 a tenant, and to be employed solely with a reference to its 

 value to the farm, it should be neat, comfortable and of con* 

 venient size. It should especially contain a cool, airy and 

 spacious dairy room, unless the owner should prefer one in- 

 dependant of the house,- over a clear spring or cool rivulet, 

 where, partially protected from the sun by a sheltering bank, 

 half buried in the earth and made, as it should be if possible, 

 of stone, the cool atmosphere within will afford the best 

 safeguard against flies and other insects, and preserve the 

 butter and cheese in the finest condition. Stone or brick are 

 the best materials for dwellings, as they are cooler in summer 

 and warmer in winter, and if comfort be the object of the 

 farmer's toil, there is certainly no place where it should be 

 sooner consulted than in his own domicil. A naked, 

 scorching exposure, equally with a bleak and dreary one is to 

 be avoided. The design of a house is protection to its 

 inmates, and if there be no adequate shelter from the elements, 

 it fails in its purpose. It should be tastefully built, as this 

 need not materially increase the expense, while it adds a 



