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of the house, in the back yard, and at the barn. The back 

 yard should be an attractive place. 



The farmhouse should provide storage room. The farm 

 family does not depend on a half dozen deliveries a day. 

 The cellar must provide storage not only for products for 

 home use, but usually for products to sell. Very rarely 

 does a city home provide a place where a barrel of apples 

 can be kept without spoiling. 



The first floor, the cellar, and the fuel shed should all be 

 handy, as these are the center of operations. The back 

 door should be near the ground so that there will be few 

 steps to climb. 



There should be a place in the back part of the house for 

 men to wash. If the farm has running water and sewage 

 disposal, there should be a wash room in the back part of 

 the house on the first floor. It is also desirable to have a 

 bathroom on the second floor. 



The second floor of the farmhouse is usually used for 

 sleeping rooms. The outdoors is so much a part of the 

 house that there would be too much going up and down 

 stairs, if the second floor were used for any other purpose. 



Since household help is hard to secure, and since the farm 

 family usually has to do its own work, all arrangements 

 for saving work are of great importance. It is usually 

 desirable to use the same room for a dining room and 

 living room. The majority of farmhouses also have this 

 same room for a kitchen, but a separate kitchen is pre- 

 ferred if it can be afforded, on account of the heat in 

 summer. 



REFERENCES 



U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Plant Industry, Bulletin 236. 

 Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, L. H. Bailey, Vol. I, 

 pp. 142-161, Vol. II, pp. 90-97. 

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