THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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DESIGN FOB A. FABU HOUSl. 



A FABH HOUSE. 



Messrs. Editors: — The above is an elevation and 

 plan of a plain but roomy house, such a one as 

 will suit the farmer as well as the gentleman. It 

 is built of brick, on stone foundations ; the walls 

 .are one brick thick, strapped and lathed inside, 

 which is better and more comfortable than two 

 bricks thick, and plastered on the bare wall. The 

 rooms are all on one floor, and lofty and well ven- 

 tilated ; the center chimney being a double flue, 

 one flue for the stove pipes from the various center 

 rooms and hall, and the other flue having an ad- 

 justable ventilator opening into the middle passage. 

 The building seen on the right is a frame 60 by 14, 

 containing at one end a bed-room for laborers, 

 12 by 12; then a summer kitchen, 12 by 18, fitted 

 with a large boiler, and used in winter for cooking 

 food for stock ; the remaining 30 feet being used 

 as a wood-shed. 



GROUND PLAN. 



Dksoription of Plan. — 1, hall, 6 by 22; 2, par- 

 lor, 17 by 15; 3, bed-room, 15 by 14; 4, living 

 room, 20 by 14; 5, 6, and 8, bed-rooms; 7, kitchen, 

 17 by 17; 9, pantry, 6 by 14: 10, 10, 10, closets; 

 U, passage, 4 feet wide, with an open arch to hall, 

 find separt«d from the kitchen by a glass door. 

 There is a cellar and milk-room under 7, 8, and 9, 

 stone walled, with cement floor, and entered from 

 the pantry by a staircase with trap door, and from 

 :he outside by a staircase close beside the back 

 jioor, built over, and with double doors. The 

 •ooras over the cellar could have the ceilings lower, 

 f desired, which would give a loft over them for 



ripening fruit, and accessible by a ladder througli 

 trap door in the kitchen ceiling. 



This design is a slight alteration in the plan of 

 the residence of Dr. Mackelcan, Ancaster, 0. W., 

 which was erected in 1853, of the very best mate- 

 rials, and cost $1,800, including Venetian blinds 

 and verandah. d. f. 



Excellent Advice to Farmers. — At a recent 

 term of the Circuit Court, in Chautauque county, 

 at which a number of young men were convicted 

 of crime and sentenced to the Western House ot 

 Refuge in this city, or to the State Prison at Au- 

 burn, the Hon. R. P. Marvin gave the spectators 

 the following excellent advice, which cannot be 

 too often repeated or too earnestly put in practice. 

 Said his Honor : 



Before sentencing these boys, I have a few words 

 to say to the men of Chautauque county, the agri- 

 culturists in particular, some of whom are here 

 to-day, looking on at the saddest scene it has been 

 my lot to see in this county ; so many boys, farm- 

 ers' sons, too, all of them, to be sent to the Peni- 

 tentiary for stealing and burglary. 



Farmers of Chautauque county, when your boys 

 get large enough to work, find work for them at 

 home. On no account let them go into the village 

 to work ; nor let them go to teaming. I care not 

 if they can get $50 per month ; it will be a dead 

 loss. They will just as surely follow the example 

 of these boys now before you, as they leave the 

 sacred and restraining influences of home. Give 

 them plenty of good books and papers^ make home 

 pleasant^ and keep them there until they are of age 

 and have the wisdom to resist the tempation of high 

 wages on the road or in a tavern, but obtained at 

 the expense of good character. 



It is never profitable to breed inferior animals 

 of any kind. If a man is not able to purchase im- 

 proved or blooded stock, he should not hesitate to 

 d''» the best he may with such as he has. Seek to 

 develop and combine the good qualities of all in 

 their breeding. 



