CHAPTER IV. 



FARM BUILDINGS, FENCES, ETC. 



IN this department will be found ample directions for 

 the various kinds of dwellings which our readers may be 

 likely to need ; from the rude, though comfortable log 

 tTianty, to the costly and tasteful framed and brick house. 



In the selection of a spot for a dwelling, one that is dry 

 and somewhat elevated should be c'tiosen. The conven- 

 'ence of a spring should also be considered. If there be 

 handsome trees standing on and around the selected site, 

 be careful not to cut down too many of them. Spare the 

 trees ; you will not repent it. Have an eye to ornament 

 as well as utility and convenience. 



LOG SHANTY. 



Some will advise a house to be first built, others a 

 "shanty ;" but the latter is so expeditiously done, and is 

 so much cheaper, and a comfortable house till the emigrant 

 gets " acclimated," that we consider it the best. A shanty 

 is built of logs cut from the felled trees. The size of the 

 building to be according to the number of rne family. 

 They are to be seen from fourteen feet long and twelve 

 bro*d, to eighteen feet by fr rteen feet or so the shape 

 as t tlows: 



