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Fig. i A Beautiful Country Home Frontispiece 



Fig. 2 A Cottage Home Valued at $1200 21 



Fig. 3 A Cottage Home Valued at $800 27 



Fig. 4 a A Cottage House Before Remodelling 33 



Fig. 4 b A Cottage House After Remodelling 33 



Fig. 5 A Trap to Prevent Escape of Sewer Gas From 



Cesspools, etc 37 



Fig. 6 A Handy Tool-Room or Work-Shop 40 



Fig. 7 The Tool- Room. Farm Tools Hung on the Walls 



of the Barn Basement s . . . . 41 



Fig. 8 A Modern Poultry House with Scratching Shed . . 43 

 Fig. 9 A Modern System of Ventilating Stables, Poultry 



Houses, etc 45 



Fig. jo A Small Shingled Building Covered with Vines; 



Grapevine above, Nasturtiums below 46 



Fig. ii A Modern Shingled House 48 



Fig. 12 A Brick House in the Country 59 



Fig. 13 The Construction of a Solid-Wall Concrete House 



Reinforced by Steel Rods 62 



Fig. 14 A Stone Cottage in the Country 63 



Fig. 1 5 Section of a Concrete Fire-Proof House with Solid 



Walls, Reinforced with Steel Rods 66 



Fig. 1 6 A Cement Concrete House made of Hollow Blocks 67 



Fig. 17 A Machine for Making Hollow Concrete Blocks . . 68 

 Fig. 1 8 A Tall Young Tree Showing Where to Cut to 



Make it Branch Low 74 



Fig. 19 A Norway Spruce Tree With Leading Shoot Cut 



off to Force Growth into the Lower Branches 7 5 



Fig. 20 The Result of Cutting off the Leading Shoot .... 75 

 Fig. 21 Forked Branch of Tree Broken Down by Ice, 



Repaired and Supported by Iron Rod 76 



Fig. 22 A Perfect Purple-Leaf Beech Tree, the Result of a 



Good Soil, a Northern Exposure and Plenty 



of Room 77 



Fig. 23 The Location of Drives and Walks 80 



Fig. 24 Another Plan of Drives and Walks 80 



