THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
other seeds or esculents that have been scientifically 
produced by ourselves. No matter how simple and 
elementary the work that you can accomplish here, 
do not fail of having a laboratory. Where house 
room is not abundant, it may be an adjunct to the 
barn. ‘This and the shop will become the center of 
much family thought, and more attractive for your 
young people than any social device that would 
draw them away from home. 
Your chimney should be built out of doors, with 
just as little as possible contact with woodwork, and 
the flue should be so small that the heat of the fire 
will easily send the draught upward. Nearly all 
smoking chimneys are caused by the fact that the 
fire is not strong enough to send up a column of hot 
air to overcome the dropping column. In other 
words, the chimney draws backward. ‘To lift the 
chimney higher does no good, but makes the trouble 
worse. Old-fashioned fires, made of piled logs in 
huge fireplaces, would heat big chimneys and drive 
upward a column of smoke and heated.-air; but our 
furnaces and grates are not able to do this if the flue 
be large. An open fireplace is desirable in the fam- 
ily room if possible. Never will this world happen 
upon anything more homeful than the old-fashioned 
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