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BO steep, yet having slant enough to slate. 

 There is a small deck or flat on top, orna- 

 mented by a cresting of cast iron. The vesti- 



Ground Plan. 



bule, B, is 4 feet deep, and opens directly 

 into the hall, C. This hall is 8 feet wide. D 

 is a parlor, 15x21, and directly back of it is 

 the kitchen, E, 15x18. The chimney is be- 

 tween the two room?, and on each side is a 

 closet for shelves. H is a back entry, having 

 a door opening out upon the veranda, M. K 

 is a large store-closet, fitted with shelves and 

 drawers, and O is a pot-closet, opening out of 

 it. P is a sink- room, and R is another kitchen 



Chamber Plan. 



closet. A part of the kitchen and all these 

 closets are in a one-story addition, witli a 

 lean-to roof. G is the dining room, 15x18, 

 and F the library, 15x16. 



Id the second story, A is the hall ; B a small 



chamber, 8x11 ; C a chamber, 15 feet square ; 

 D a chamber. 15x13; E a bathroom; Fa 

 chamber, 15x16 feet, and H a chamber 15x16. 



The attics and cellar are left wholly unfin- 

 ished at present ; but there is room in the 

 former for five good chambers, and in the lat- 

 ter for a laundry, store-rooms, furnace, coal- 

 bins, &c., &c. 



The interior finish is all to be plain, of pine ; 

 the walls lathed and plastered, and neatly fin- 

 ished with a skim coat. The first story is 10 

 feet high, and the second 9i. The cost would 

 be about $10,000. 



Remarks. — We present a ratber high cost build- 

 ing, as the first of the series. This fault will be 

 remedied in future plans, as the design of the ar- 

 chitect is to give plans suited to every one's ability, 

 and the majority of them will be quite moderate 

 in cost. As combining originality and beauty of 

 design the series will prove valuable for builders 

 and carpenters, as well as pleasing in artistic exe- 

 cution. — [Eds. 



A Small Barn. — Mr. E. J. Carr, of West Hamp- 

 stead, N. H., sends us plans of a barn 26 by 36 

 feet, which he thinks will better meet the wants of 

 small farmers than those of the laiger ones that 

 we have published. But his arrangements are so 

 nearly similar to that of the first floor of the plan on 

 page 184 that it is hardly necessary to give his 

 drawings. His bay ocupies the whole of one side 

 of the barn floor. On the other side the stable is 

 divided by a passage-way across it, with outside 

 door, into two unequal divisions, the large one 

 for cows and the smaller one for horses. 



A Dairy to Boast of — The St, Albans 

 Messenger says : — Mr. Nahum Brigham of 

 Bakerstield, from fifteen cows, made during 

 the dairy season just closed, sixty tubs, or 

 3000 lbs. of butter. He sold it for forty-five 

 cents a pound, realizing $1350. He also 

 raised ten calves, now worth $IU0, and 1000 

 pounds of pork, which he sold f)r$l30 — mak- 

 ing as the proper income of the dairy $1580, 

 besides supplying his family. He is now mak- 

 ing butter at the rate of one tub a week. 



Mr. Brigbara is a correct farmer. He se- 

 lects the best btock lie can find and then keeps 

 it in the best condition. He does not believe 

 in pasturing all the cows the fence will hold, 

 and in the winter, besides first quality of hay 

 he is a liberal feeder of grain. It pays, as 

 the above account shows. Besides, he is a 

 neat farmer. Everything is kept in its place 

 and his work is done in time. This is the 

 great secret of happiness in farming, if not of 

 success, and every farmer who drives his work 

 and is not driven by it, will find it true. 



