1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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nace box, to the chamber. We have seen this 

 method tried, and can recommend it as being the 

 cheapest and most effective way of heating a small 

 green-house like this. 



The six upper sashes of the roof have pulleys 

 and cords, by which means they may be lowered 

 and raised at pleasure. 



At the farther extremity of the front hall, a 

 glazed door opens into the back entry which ex- 

 tends along back of the parlor and opens out upon 

 an umbrage, I, on the eastern side of the house. 

 This back entry contains stall's to the chambers 

 and cellar, and opens into the parlor and the 

 kitchen. The dining-room, C, is fourteen feet 

 square, and communicates with the kitchen, D, by 

 means of a small passage, fitted up with shelves. 

 On the right of the chimney is a good-sized china 

 closet, witii di-awers, and shelves for china. The 

 kitchen is twelve by seventeen — is well lighted by 

 thi-ee windows, and has a fire-place with an oven 

 and boiler. Opening out of it is a pantry, E, six feet 

 by eight, furnished with hooks, shelves, sink, pump. 



der the shelves, and of about the same width, 

 closed by a board with hinges precisely like a trap 

 door. 



Near the ceiling, and opening outwards and up- 

 wards on the north side of the house, is a similar 

 trap door three or four feet long and about a foot 

 wide, which an elevating stick with notches cut 

 into it enables an attendant to raise to any desired 

 degree. 



When the upper ventilator is opened, the heated 

 air passes out by reason of its specific levity, and 

 the cold air from the cellar rushes in to fill its 

 place, in the same way that water rises in a pump 

 when the air is withdrawn from above. A venti- 

 lated space surrounds the room, (here, of about 

 seven inches in width, though in Mi\ Wing's it is 

 twelve or more,) and prevents the heating, so often 

 resulting from confined air in the adjacent Avails. 

 The shelves are not flat boards, as usually con- 

 structed, but are formed of two narrow strips of 

 board set on edge and notched into standards 

 placed about five feet apart, by which means we 



cupboard, iS;c., and opening out upon a platform j get a free circulation of air on every side. The 



strips for shelves are nine inches 

 apart outside, and each strip one 

 by two inches. The shelves are 

 eight inches apart, with six inch- 

 es of clear space between them 

 for pans. In the room on our 

 plan there are accommodations 

 for about eighty common pans. 



The umbrage is six feet wide, 

 and is latticed on the eastern 

 side. 



The second floor of the house 

 contains two front chambers, 

 each fourteen feet square ; a 

 kitchen cliamber, twelve by foiu'- 

 teen ; another chamber over the 

 pantry and entry, nine feet 

 square ; and a small room over 

 the dairy. 



The attics are unfinished. The 

 at the rear of the house. A large closet opens j principal floor is ten feet high, and the second is 

 out of the pantry where shown on the plan. The \ nine and a half, 

 dairy, F, is an important feature. It is on the 

 eastern corner of the house ; the umbrage shield- 

 ing it from the sun on that side, while a window 

 on the north side admits cold air, and other pro- 

 visions for ventilating keep the air continually 

 fresh. The room is constructed on a principle in- 

 vented by Mr. Harvey Wing, of Morris, N. Y., 

 and successfully applied to his own house. It is 

 thus described : The room is situated directly 

 over a cold cellar, from which the air may be taken 

 at pleasure by means of ventilators, for the perfect 

 regulation of the temperature of the room. These 

 ventilators consist of simple slits or openings, 

 running nearly the entire length of the room un- 



The house is designed to be built of wood, and 

 covered in the vertical and battened manner ; to 

 be finished with white walls for papering, and a 

 plain wood finish for all the rooms; the kitchen, 

 pantry, dairy and back entry may be grained or 

 stained ; the rest of the house may have two coats 

 of paint inside and outside. Cost, about $2o00. 



Madness Caused by Honey. — In Mesopota- 

 mia a peculiar kind of honey is found, which is 

 said, if eaten in any considerable quantity, to make 

 men mad, though only for a short time. The 

 noxious quality of the honey is thought to be de- 

 rived from the blossoms of the rhododendron, 

 which is abundant there. 



