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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



dwarf book-cases about four and a half feet 

 high on two of the other sides. G is the din- 

 ing room, on the south side, measuring thir- 



Ground Plan. 



teen by fifteen feet, and having an outlook 

 along the veranda to the street in front. H 

 is a passage connecting the kitchen with the 

 dining room. It has fitted up in it cupboards 

 for china, as shown on the plan, and from it 

 are reached the stairs to the cellar. K is a 

 good-sized store room fitted up in the usual 

 manner, and M is the kitchen, twelve by thir- 

 teen and a half feet. There is a door open- 

 ing from it on the south side, communicating 

 with the yard. 



In the second story are four chambers, cor- 

 responding in size with the rooms below, ex- 

 cept that spaces are taken off for closets. 

 There is also a bath room in the kitchen wing. 



The attic has one room and a large space 

 for storing. 



The cellar extends under the whole house, 

 and has outside doors under the back stoop. 

 The principal stories are nine feet high in the 

 clear. 



The house is designed to be built of frame, 

 covered with hemlock boards and clapboarded, 

 — the roof to be shingled. The eaves project 

 two feet and the external finish is simple, but 



bold. All the windows have outside blinds, 

 except those in the cellar. The inside finish 

 is simple, in keeping with the general charac- 

 ter of the house. 



Chamber Flan. 



Cost. — This house was estimated upon in 

 March, by a competent builder, for actual 

 construction, and his figures were $2800 for 

 completing the building ready for occupancy, 

 including cistern and cesspool, but not includ- 

 ing furnace, plmnbing, or the grading of the 

 banking. 



The Daisy. — Good words have been spoken for 

 the Canada thistle, twitch-grass, and most other 

 farm pests, by benevolent-minded agricultural 

 writers, and now in Mr. Warren Ferris, of Otsego 

 County, N. Y., the poor despised Daisy — known 

 also as white weed, white daisy, ox-eye, &c., — finds 

 an enthusiastic advocate. In an article in a late 

 number of the Country Gentleman, he offers to 

 gamble on the superiority of the daisy over clover 

 for enriching and improving land. He proposes 

 that two acres of dry, worn-out land be taken for 

 a test. On one acre a peck of daisy seed, and on 

 the other a peck of clover seed, shall be sown, 

 both without fertilizers; turn them both under 

 when in full blossom, and sow both acres to any 

 crop that may be chosen. Fifty dollars that the 

 yield on the daisy land beats that on the clover 

 land. 



