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casements should open near to the ceilings. Three bed- 

 rooms are needed for a family: viz., one for the parents, 

 and one each for the boys and girls; fire places in two- 

 and all properly ventilated. All the internal fittings to be 

 arranged so as to encourage cleanliness and order. 



The chief point on which it appears to us that 

 insufficient stress has hitherto been laid in discussions of 

 this subject, is the power of a large garden to meet the 

 difficulty in the way of cottage building as a profitable 

 speculation. The difference between agricultural rent and the 

 rent which a cottager will give for a large plot of ground by 

 his cottage will certainly help to repay the expenditure of 

 the landowner. 



The Homestead. We do not propose to give plans or 

 designs for farm buildings here. It must suffice to state 

 the principles on which their arrangement ought to depend, 

 and to describe in some detail the separate portions. The 

 leading principles are the safety and well-being of the- 

 stock (both live and dead) requiring shelter ; and the 

 economy of labour. To this end yards for cattle should 

 face the south, and sheds for implements should face the 

 north. To this end also cart sheds should be near the 

 stables, and hay and root and cake and chaff houses should 

 be near the stables and cattle stalls and pig-sties. One- 

 of the farm products requiring shelter in farm premises is 

 the manure made therein. The yards attached to cattle 

 sheds should be small, or they should be entirely roofed 

 over ; so as to avoid the washing of the manure. 



The common arrangement of a homestead is seen, 

 when from one line of buildings including straw house, 

 dressing floor, granary, cake and meal house, and root 



