382 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



If your funds are limited and you must put up a small house, 

 it is often wise to build so that you can add to it at some future 

 time, and the possibility of this must be considered, for if the 

 part built first is to be a wing, and a front to be added, it must 

 be set far enough back to allow room for the front without con- 

 tracting the yard too much, and in planting shade trees this must 

 be borne in mind. It is sometimes wise to build the house as 

 large as you expect to need it and defer finishing and furnishing 

 a part of it till some future time when you can better afford it. 

 One should never lose sight of the fact that a large and expen- 

 sive house calls for expensive furnishing, and therefore all spare 

 means should not be put into the building. 



One point which should be kept in mind in building is 

 thoroughness. Use only good material. There is no economy 

 in green lumber, sappy shingles, or poor material of any kind; 

 better have three rooms built substantially of good material than 

 twice the number that will be shackly and prematurly old in a 

 few years. 



The house should be built so as to admit of good ventilation 

 and a free circulation of air in hot weather, and so arranged that 

 the sun will shine into every room at some time during the day. 

 The living rooms should be large and the dining-room and 

 kitchen arranged with special reference to economy of strength 

 and time. A flight of steps leading up to the front door is 

 allowable, but at the rear the grading should be such that a 

 single step will reach from the ground to the floor, and if possi- 

 ble the wood and water should be on a level with the kitchen. 

 The living room, which will be used most in winter, should 

 always have a southern front. A bay window adds greatly to 

 the cheerfulness of a sitting-room and is very desirable. The 

 arrangements in the kitchen and dining-room should be with 

 reference to saving steps, and the relative .position of stove, cis- 

 tern, cupboard, pantry and cellar stairs carefully considered. A 

 <lumb-waiter from the cellar to the dining-room, or to come up 

 between the dining-room and pantry, so as to be accessible from 

 both, will save many trips to the cellar, and much heavy work 

 in carrying milk, cream, etc., up and down stairs. Screens for 



