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Farm Cottage. 



ways associated farmers with that class of the human semblance 

 who are enlightened by sending* among them pictorial handker- 

 chiefs, so violently opposed were they to imbibing information as 

 promulged in useful books pertaining to their peculiar avocations. 

 The opposite of this willful barbarism has had its natal hour, and 

 we are happy to chronicle the fact that farmers of the present day 

 are representing us in the ruling places. 



This desirable 

 condition of affairs 

 is mainly attribu- 

 table to the incul- 

 cation of such sen- 

 timents as are a- 

 roused by the con- 

 templation of ex- 

 amples of home 

 architecture, 

 which have been 

 sown by such men 

 as Loudon and 

 Downing. The 

 harvest is worthy 

 of the minds and 

 hands of they who 

 scattered the seed. 



There are a 

 great many meth- 

 ods of building a 

 convenient farm 

 house, owing to the great diversity of opinion as to what consti- 

 tutes convenience. Some hold the opinion that the portion of the 

 house occupied by the family, and the dairy, and structures of a 

 similar character, should all be sheltered by the same roof Otli- 

 ers, again, contend that the dwelling should be disconnected from 

 all other buildings, that its greatest beauty and utility is arrived 

 at when occupying an isolated position. To the latter opinion 

 we claim to be a disciple, and to which we have endeavored to give 

 forcible expression in the illustration entitled " A Farm Cottage," 

 the essentials of which are comprised in a plainly ornamented 

 exterior, and ample and commodious accommodations within. 



