Usdrss Cost 



95 



instructions are ready to be placed in the liands 

 of the draughtsman. 



Few persons are original ; therefore, if the 

 little conveniences which help to lighten work 



Fig. 13. A house of seven gables. 



and make life more pleasurable are to find a 

 place in the house, they must be seen in other 

 houses. All men have more ideas than any one 

 man ; therefore, the range of study should be 

 wide, that whatever is suitable to the condi- 

 tions may be adopted. After having built many 

 farm houses and barns, and having made a 

 long and most careful study of them, I esti- 

 mate that from 30 to 40 per cent of the cost 

 of farm buildings is useless, and sometimes 

 worse than thrown away. 



