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the doors and windows are a cheap luxury, and should be found 

 in every farm house. 



There are many little conveniences which add to the com- 

 fort and save labor. A bracket lamp with a hinged stem, and 

 a reflector on a pivot, will enable the light to be thrown on any 

 point in the room, and is of especial value in the kitchen, as in 

 the winter much of the cooking must be done by lamp light, 

 and it is neither safe nor convenient to have a lamp near the 

 stove. Often the location of a cupboard can be changed so as 

 to save two or more steps each trip, and when we count the 

 trips for a single day, and multiply by the days in a year and 

 the years in a life-time, we begin to get some conception of the 



Fio. 1.-ELEVAT10N OF FARM COTTAGE. 



importance of saving a step. The location of a door or the 

 cellar stairs should be such as to reach the desired point in 

 the easiest and shortest possible way. The stairway should 

 be wide, with broad steps and easy grade, without crooks 

 or turns. 



We give plans of cottage and farm house, which may be of 

 value to those intending to build, even though they may not 

 adopt them. 



