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and cheese must not be stored together. The way to the cellar should open 

 out of the kitchen. AVe do not advocate large cellars under the house, 

 because they are apt to become the storehouses of a vast amount of stuff tha 

 Avould be more fittingly stored in some out-building, or an out-cellar. Cellars 

 are generally kept in a way tluit seriously endangers the health of tiie family. 

 If the house is set as it should be, well up from the ground, and ventilated 

 imder the floor, it is better calculated to promote health than a cellar. 

 If tlic nature of the soil is very dry, the space under the wash-room may 

 be used for a store-room, or even milk-room, jiroperly ventilated. Every 

 kitchen should have one or more closets, upon the shelves of which the many 

 little things can be kept, each in its place, and all in order. In the dining- 

 room there should be two closets : one for dishes in every -day use, and one 

 in which anything not always, but occasionally, wanted upon the table, and 

 anything desirable to be locked up, can be safely stored. 



There should be a large closet for the use of the sitting-room ; and there 

 must be such a one in the fiimily bed-room. In fact, this should be a double 

 room, a smaller one attaclied to the larger for the small children ; and tliis 

 should have its closet, or clothes-press, that children might be early taught to 

 put every article of clothing in its proper place. 



The larger children, and other adults, should have large, airy bed-rooms 

 up stairs; and no farm-huuse will be complete without two, at least, " spare 

 bed-rooms." 



307. IIOAV to Build a Convenient House. — A pleasant-looking, unostenta- 

 tious farm-house, to contain the rooms indicated, may be of the following 

 dimensions. A two-story portion, 34 by 24 feet, M-ould give half of tiie 

 parlor 10 by IG feet, and a spare bed-room 10 by 10 feet, and a hall 6 by ItJ 

 feet ; a stairway 3^^ by 10 feet ; a space for pantry, or closets, 2^ by 10 feet ; 

 a family, or sitting-room, 13 by IS feet, and two bed-rooms, 10 by 11 and 

 8 by 11 feet. This building may be roofed to pitch either way. Tlie otlier 

 half of the parlor, not comprised in this space, is to be gained by an attach- 

 ment, 8 bv 16 feet, one story high, attached to tliat side to balance the 

 piazza, giving the house more of a cottage look, as well as being less exjieii- 

 sivc, and making better rooms on the second floor. 



Attached to tlie main building, a wing or L part, a story and a half liigh, 

 will give a dining-room 12 liy IS feet, a kitchen 10 by IS feet, a wasli-rooin 

 12 bv 12 feet, a store-room 6 by 12 feet, a pantry 6 by 8 feet, a milk-room 

 (! bv (i feet, and passage and stairway to the half story, which will make good 

 lodging-rooms for hirelings. 



The fuel-room may be a separate building, and although used for such n 

 purpose, may be made with a finish to correspond witii the house, and set 

 forward flush with the piazza, which is to extend along tiie front of tliis wing, 

 and will tbrm a good termination to the walk, besides being convenient antl 

 ai>proaciuiblc from all parts of the liouse under cover. Tliis piazza, wliich i.- 

 6 bv 40 feet, and one 8 by 16 feet adjoining, should, if possilile, linve a soutli- 

 castern exposure, which will make it pleasant to all the rooms must used. 



