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GENESEE FARMER. 



Mar, 



From iLc Aim-ri<;un Agriculturist. 



A Cheap Farm-House. 



Whoever rears his liouso in air, 

 \Vill need much pold to huihl it there ; 

 While he ihat builds an luiniMo (rot, 

 May save sonic pold to boil the pot. 

 While that so hifjh the cot oulshows, 

 Is hard to climb the good wife knows. 

 Mho has the cot ne'er wants a home ; 

 Who spent the gold lo want may come. 



It is an old proverb, Mi-. Editor, that many a 

 man has built his house so big he could not live 

 in it Sometimes it is because he don't know 

 how to build less. Can we help to show him ? 

 Notwithstanding the high character and the 

 adaptability of Mr. Downing's works to the "'up- 

 per ten thousand," the wants of the lower ten 

 hundred thousand are not satisfied. 



It is often the case, particularly in settling new 

 countries, that a man wants something that will 

 answer for immediate shelter, and which he 

 would be glad so to build that it would by and by 

 form part of the house — so he may be able to 

 build pai't of a house this year, and perhaps an- 

 other part another year. 



Now, any plan that is so arranged that the new 

 beginner can build it in parts, having each part 

 complete in itself, will be useful to many of your 

 readers, who will never read "Cottage Resi- 

 dences;" and if they did, could not adopt a sin- 

 gle plan in tlie book, for want of means. It is 

 for the benefit of this ckiss that I have arranged 

 the enclosed plan. It is particularly intended 

 for the new settler, and to be built on the haloon 

 plan, which has not a single tennon or mortice 

 in the frame, except the sills; all the upright 

 timber being very light, and held together by 

 nails, it being sheeted upon the studs under the 

 clap boards, is very stiff, and just as good and far 

 cheaper than ordinary frames. 



Description. — a, AV ash-room, 13 x 13; h, 

 kitchen, 16 x 24; c, parlor, 16 x 16 ; d,f, h, ?, 

 bed-rooms, 10 x 12; c, store-room, 8 x 10; g, 

 pantry, 8 x 10 ; j, /, clothes press; k, entry; m, 

 fire-place ; 7i, stairway ; o, wood-house ; p, gar- 

 den gate ; the pump should be in the wtvsh room. 



I would have a lawn in front, with shrubbery, 

 and an orchai'd on tlie side opposite the garden. 

 Between the garden and the house slmuld be a 

 road to the rear buildings, and between this road 

 and the house I would have a strip of green sward 



ornamented with shrubbery. A corresponding 

 strip also should be reserved between the house 

 and orchard. All the rest may be left to the 

 taste of the person owning the premises. 



Now, suppose a family just arrived at the 

 " new location," and designing to build a house 

 upon the above plan. First, they need some im- 

 mediate shelter. Two hands in two days, can 

 put up the room 13 by 13, marked wash-room 

 (tf,) in the plan, with a lean-to roof, the sides 

 covered with wide 5 inch boards, feather-edged 

 together, with a rough floor, which, with a rough 

 shed to cook under, will serve for bed-room and 

 parlor while the house is building. 



Next add the room marked kitchen (h,) a good 

 sized farmer's kitchen, 16 by 24. Board up the 

 sides in the same way and (inisli off inside com- 

 plete, and you then have a house with two rooms, 

 the wash-room answering well for a summer 

 cooking room. Divide the chamber into three 

 rooms, two of them 8 by 14 each, and the other 

 10 by 16, including the stairway (n.) Make the 

 posts of this part of the building 12 ft. 6 in. high 

 from the sleepers of lower floor, and the lower 

 room 7 ft. 6 in. in the clear ; the joice ten inch- 

 es deep, and the upper room will be 4 ft. high 

 under tlie eaves, and you will consequently have 

 to finish up the rafters till you get high enough 

 in the centre. 



Now add as you are able one or both of the 

 wings, containing each a bed-room 10 by 12 (d, 

 /, A, ?,) and pantry and store-foom 8 by 10 {e,g;) 

 each of these is also a lean-to, the outside posts of 

 which should be 6 feet high, and the roof rising 

 4 ft., will leave two feet above in the side of the 



