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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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A OESIGN FOR A THOUSAND DOLLAR FARM HOUSE 

 WANTED. 



PLAN FOR A SMALL FARM HOUSE. 



over 3. A passage next the stairs leads to a small 



We should feel obliged if some of our readers 

 would furnish us with designs for a farm house, 

 costing not to exceed from $1,000 to $1,500. To 

 set the ball in motion, we here annex a description 

 of a house built for a gentleman in Wisconsin : 



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GPOUVD FLOOR. CHAMBER FLOOR. 



First Stqry. — 1. Rustic porch covered by a vine 



2. Entrance or vestibule. 



3. Family room, 15x16 feet, with fireplace. 



4. Alcove or recess for a bed, with a closet. 



5. Living room, 15x16 feet. 



6. Pantry. Y. Oven. 

 ■8. Shows how a kitchen may be added, with a 



rustic verandah on the side. 



To this kitchen may be added a scullery, dairy, 

 etc., as occasion requires. 



9. Staircase, with cellar stairs underneath. 

 Second Story. — The stair landing is over the 

 oven ; a large closet over 4, between which and 

 the chimney is a door opening into a large chamber 



bed-room over 2, and a partition divides the space 

 over 5 into two chambers. 



When the kitchen wing is added, the second 

 story will furnish two more chambers, both of 

 which may be entered from the stair landing, by 

 doors on each side of the kitchen chimney. This 

 arrangement supposes the chamber divided by a 

 partition running from the chimney to the rear 



end of the room. 



SPIRIT OF THE AGRICULTURAL PRESS. 

 The Sex of Eggs. — M. Genin lateiy addressed fhf 

 Academie des Sciences on the subject of " The Sex of 

 Eggs." He affirms that he now is able, after having 

 studied the subject for upwards of three years, to state 

 with assurance that all eggs containing the germ of males 

 have wrinkles on their smaller ends, while female egg; 

 are smooth at the extremities. 



California Wheat at the Great Internationa] 

 Exhibition. — The London Agricultural Gasettt, in i 

 notice of the agricultural department of the great Inter 

 national Exhibition, says : 



"The finest Wheat shown at any of the stands, and th 

 finest that we have seen in the building, is the exquisitel; 

 beautiful sample of ' Wheat from California,' shown b 

 Mr. W. E. Chambers, of Mark Lane, at stand 708, of 

 pure cream color, everv grain like its neighbor, a short 

 small, thin-skinned, full-bodied berry, with no stain c 

 deeper tinge on anv part of its surface, and weighing <> 

 pounds a bushel— this specimen may be taken as an ex 

 ample of what Wheat ought to be. In the same case ar 

 specimens of a good six-rowed Barley in ear. 



"Is the Hog a Grazier?" — The Maine Farmer ha 

 known a hog to live all the year round and keep in goo 

 oider, on grass in summer and clover hay in winter 

 Green clover is undoubtedly good for hogs, but we di 

 not know that they would thrive on clover hay. A corn 

 spondent of the Country Gentleman, however, gives a 

 account of twenty-five shoats that were provided wit 

 warm and comfortable quarters and fed on clover ha 

 alone, and says they were in better condition than man 

 shoats having grain and no shelter. 



