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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A MODEL FARM SCHOOL. 



Now that the subject of Agricultural Education 

 is receiving some attention and will probably be- 

 come a prominent topic in the legislature, we ask 

 our readers to give it their careful attention, and 

 refer them particularly to the article on the sub- 

 ject of a Farm School in another column. We do 

 this freely, because the object must be of importance 

 wherever our columns are read — Canada, Oregon, 

 Texas or California ; and they are readin them all. 



As we have said before, every interest among 

 us, excepting the farming interest, has received 



the encouragement and fostering care of the State. 

 That vital interest has been neglected, so that 

 Massachusetts, the pioneer in other education, in 

 ship building, manufactures and inventions, has 

 no institution within her limits to teach her sons 

 the Art of Farming. It is time something were 

 done to advance these interests and check the 

 spirit for emigration which is robbing the old 

 homesteads of the State of many of their best sons. 

 A more intelligent practice of husbandry will do 

 more towards it than a thousand volumes of es- 

 says. It is every man's duty to aid in the work. 



COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE. 



PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF A GOTHIC COTTAGE. 



We give in this number the elevation, ground 

 and chamber floor plans of an attractive and pleas- 

 ant cottage. We do not say that it is perfect in 

 all its architectural points, but that it combines 

 so many advantages that one may adopt it as a 

 whole, without doing violence to a tolerably cor- 

 rect architectural taste. Or, it may be modified 

 somewhat to suit location or individual ideas. At 

 any rate, we hope many of our readers will find 

 something in it to meet their wants. 



A manifest improvement of taste has been ex- 

 hibited, within a few years, in the construction of 

 dwellings, as Avell as an increasing regard for con- 

 venience and health. The discovery has been made 

 that neatness, taste, and even elegance, may be 

 combined with utility and economy, in our houses 

 and cottages ; — a fact unknown, or little heeded, 

 by our matter-of-fact, prosaic ancestors. To grat- 

 ify this commendable feeling, and to extend it in 

 the community, if possible, we shall present to our 



readers occasional specimens of cottage architec- 

 ture, from both original and selected designs. As 

 an illustration of the manner in which we design 

 to treat this subject, we here introduce a perspec- 

 tive view of a country residence, on a small scale, 

 in the Gothic cottage style. It is transferred, with 

 some alterations, from Loudon's "Encyclopedia 

 of Architecture." 



In the ground-plan, with the points of compass 

 indicated by the letters N. S. E. W., a is the en- 

 trance porch, which is to be finished with a cov- 

 ered roof, and to have Gothic niches at the angles, 

 for statues, or vases for flowers. From this you 

 pass to the hall and staircase (b) , by a Venetian 

 door, the upper part of which may be glazed with 

 stained glass ; thence to a small ante-room (c) , 

 which may be used as a book-closet, or, having a 

 good southern exposure, as a conservatory for 

 plants. From this there may be a glazed door 

 leading to a piazza, surrounding the eastern wing 



