THE GENESEE FAEMEE. 



said, a room IG by 33 feet, as 

 occasion may require. The nur- 

 sery, kitchen, buttery, and front 

 hall, each opens to this room, as 

 will be seen by reference to the 

 ground plan. The kitchen is 

 very convenient for doing house 

 work ; from it we go to the col- 

 lar, to the wood-house, into the 

 buttery, nursery, and back cham- 

 bers ; and both kinds of water 

 are obtained at the door — rain 

 water in the sink and well water 

 at the end of the stoop. There 

 is what should never bo omitted 

 in a dwelling house — a good 

 bathing-room. 



This house is built in the most 

 substantial manner. The outside 

 is covered witliinch boards match- 

 ed, and the joints battened with 

 3-inch strips 1^ inches in thick- 

 ness. The glass of the double 

 windows is 8 by 16 inches, two 

 wide in each sash. The cost of 

 the whole building will not vary 

 much from $1500 ; but that 

 would depend upon the finish. 

 The only difference in the cost of 

 such a house and a plain one 

 equally well finished, is in the 

 work, the material being about 

 the same. The end that I claim to have accomplished is the production of 

 compact, convenient, farm dwelling. Wm. Morgan. 



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GROUND ^LAN. 



EsPLANATiox. — 1, Veranda. 2, Front Hall. 8, Livinj 



Parlor. 5, Kitchen. 6, Nursery. 7, Parlor Bed-roDin, 



hoii.se. 9, Platform. 10, Bathing-room. 11, Stoop. 12, 

 11, Veranda. 



C-room. 4, 

 8, . Wood- 

 13, Press. 



a neat, 



The Wheat Fly, or " Weevil." — Considerable interest has been felt, and still exists 

 in Western New York,to learn something more of the nature and probable increase or 

 decrease of the wheat fly, or " weevil," whose ravages have extended with greater or less 

 severity over several of our best wheat growing counties. The perfect insect is a small 

 fly, about the size of a gnat, which it resembles. Unlike the Hessian fly, it produces 

 but one generation in a year, and deposits its eggs, not on the leaves of the wheat as 

 the Hessian fly does, but under the glumes (chaft"), which invest the germs of seed as 

 they begin to grow. The eggs, or nits, of the fly hatch in a few days (from five to 

 seven), and give forth a brood of small orange-colored larvae, or worms. Like tlie young 

 of all animals, these consume nutritious food freely, to enable them to increase in weight 

 and substance. The infant seeds of the wheat plant ar5 the natural and best food of 

 the young growing wheat flies. Arrived at maturity, the larva, or worm, either falls 

 from the ear of wheat to the ground, or, as Dr. Fitch suggests and believes, it avails 

 itself of a wet, cloudy day, or of a heavy dew at night, when the stem of the plant is 

 moist, and crawls down to the earth, into which it penetrates an inch or two, and 

 changes into a pupa, or chrysalis. 



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