1846. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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centre building for lights into the stairway cham- 1 use the wash room in winter to keep a stock of 

 ber. These side rooms will also have to be fin- kindling wood. If you like the plan and have 



ished a little way up the rafters, to get height 

 enough. 



The sides of these rooms, which were former- 

 ly the outside of the main building, can be plas- 

 tered or papered upon the rough boarding. — 

 Your house so far is a whole house, complete in 

 itself, but next year you want it more extensive. 

 Go on then, and add the front room (c,) with or 

 without the wings and porch, d, i, j. k, I, either 

 of which could be added afterwards, by making 

 your calculations as you go along, building one 

 room after another as you are able, and until 

 you finally get a very comfortable house, com- 

 pleted like the plan. In calculating sizes of 

 rooms, I have not allowed for thickness of walls. 

 The front chamber I would leave all in one 

 room, with one large window in the front, and 

 opening out upon the top of the portico, and 

 having a drum which would be heated by the 

 stove in the room below, and make a pleasant 

 sitting, sewing, or nursery room, either in sum- 

 mer or winter. 



As in all my design I aim at great economy of 

 cost, convenience of arrangement, and occupancy 

 of all the room for some useful purpose; so now 

 T hope you are able to add a little cheap orna- 

 mental work to the front. Support the porch 

 which is 6 ft. by 24, upon five neat columns, 

 with railing, except the door way ; make the 

 roof flat, with a pretty little railing on top, so 

 that we car, oome out of the front chamber of a 

 balmy evening to smell the honeysuckles that 

 have been trained up from below. Carry out 

 bulwarks upon the roof of each wing, to hide the 

 pitch. Put in a large window in the centre of 

 the parlor front, of a half sexagonal shape, with 

 two narrow windows each side, opening by hin- 

 ges down to the floor, through which in summer 

 we can also have access to a pleasant seat upon 

 the porch, and still enjoy the company of those 

 who might choose to remain within the room. — 

 For the sake of symmetry, I place a door at each 

 end of the porch, only one of which will be an 

 open sesame, unless perchance about the time 

 you get "the new white house" done, the sover- 

 eigns should elect you justice of the peace, or 

 you happen to be a doctor, or somebody else, 

 that wants a room for an ofiice, just see how con- 

 veniently you can open the blind door through a 

 passage like that on the other side, into one of 

 the front bed rooms (?,) 10 ft. by 12, where you 

 could keep your official dignity very snug, with- 

 out disturbing the family. 



The kitchen, which should be the grand deside- 

 ratum in every farm house, you will perceive is 

 80 situated that it has only nine feet of surface ex- 

 posed to the weather, which will save many a 

 load of wood, and yet by opening room doors, it 

 can be well ventilated in summer. 



Until you do get the wood house built, you can 



the means, of course it will be best to build the 

 whole at one time. But, if necessary to build by 

 sections, you can do as I have directed, or you 

 can build the front part first, or build the entire 

 centre part first, and afterwards add the different 

 rooms that lean-to. 



My object is to accommodate the new settler 

 and poor man, with a plan by which he can get a 

 home without building himself out of a house, or 

 getting a great shell of an outside show, full of 

 unfinished emptiness. Look at the plan and see 

 how far I have succeeded, and such as it is, ac- 

 cept it as a Christmas present from your sick 

 friend, Solon Robinson. 



Indiana, Dec. 25, 1845. 



Arnold's Improved Patent Lever Washing 

 Hachine. 



We give considerable space to the above en- 

 graving of this Machine, only for the reason that, 

 from the united testimony of some thousands who 

 have used it for a long time, we have no doubt 

 in regard to its great value for washing clothes 

 in an easy and satisfactory manner. The Ma- 

 chine is for sale by Wm. E. Arnold, 214 Main 

 street, in this city. Price, in Rochester, $'7. 



It is also manuflictured and for sale by Agents 

 in different sections of the country. 



When water is converted into steam it ex- 

 pands to 170U times its former bulk. 



