Principlefi of VpniUation 75 



avoided if utility, natural beauty and comfort, 

 economy and repose are to be secured. 



The pioneer in the wooded districts built the 

 home in some sequestered nook or valley at the 

 base of the hill or table land, where the spring 

 or the stream issued from the wood -covered 

 heights. The rural house of the pioneer allowed 

 free circulation of the frosty air ; the problem 

 of ventilation they solved without knowing it. 

 Unwittingly they adopted the correct principle ; 

 viz., ventilation by many small, gentle streams 

 of air instead of by a few large openings, which 

 create dangerous drafts. It must be admitted 

 that our forefathers overdid the ventilation in 

 most cases, and rheumatism and chilblains were 

 the result; but the principle was correct. 



Now the spring has dried up, the water from 

 the deforested hills comes rushing to the low- 

 lands until the streams overflow their banks, 

 and these and other changed conditions indicate 

 that the future farmsteads should be erected on 

 higher land, on the slopes of the hills. From 

 the one extreme we have gone, in some cases, 

 to the other, and the home has been built on 

 the very apex of some lofty hill. Such locations 

 may be well adapted for summer residences, 

 where little or no farming is carried on, but are 

 not suitable for the farm home. 



Now that the house is constructed by more 



