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shop or yard than by hand on the spot. He can put up a cottage 

 house by this phan for $2,000, that by the common plan would cost 

 $3,000. " The whole system of building," says Mr. McDougal, " can 

 be superintended and looked after by one or two men, and more 

 general satisfaction given, and the whole work done more promptly 

 than by having a dozen diiferent bosses or contractors, and then have 

 one waiting for the other. As for the smaller classes of cottages or 

 villas of from two to eight or ten rooms in frame buildings, one or 

 two stories high, I have succeeded, after devoting much time and 

 attention, in arranging the system so that the entire work can be put 

 together at the shop and ready for erecting on the ground as fast as it 

 can be hauled there, and a gang of five men can set up a cottage of 

 from six to eight rooms in a day, and it will be ready for the inside 

 finish or plasterers to proceed the next day, and when completed they 

 are better buildings than the common timbered frame houses, and 

 can be made just as plain or ornamental as the parties may desire to 

 have them, I make bold to say that there is not a frame building in 

 this city or surroundings that will surpass them for strength and 

 durability. This same system will apply to school houses, churches, 

 hot-houses and many other classes of private as well as public build- 

 insrs. This is a fine field for investigation or investment. These 

 buildings are wanted all over the country, from Maine to Mexico, 

 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but nowhere more than here. 



The Komeyn Seedling. 



The committee sent by the Farmers' Club of the American Insti- 

 tute, consisting of Messrs. J. B. Lyman, Dr. J. E. Snodgrass and A. 

 B. Crandell, to investigate the qualities of the seedling strawberry 

 developed by Mr. William Romeyn, of Kingston, in Ulster county, 

 submit the following report : We visited Kingston on yesterday, the 

 29th of June, and saw a great number of the plants growing in the 

 garden of Mr. Romeyn and on the grounds of several of his neigh- 

 bors. The committee were at once impressed with the csize and 

 tlmfty condition of the plants and the large number of ben'ies, ripe 

 and unripe, with which they are loaded. These vines are runners planted 

 last September. They are of such size that Mr, Romeyn finds it 

 best to set them three feet apart each way. We observed several 

 which measured two and a half feet across. A large number of these 

 plants had two dozen large ripe berries upon them. From one we 

 picked thirty-five strawberries as large or larger than the usual sized. 



