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WHOLE No. 1496. f 
NEW YORK CITY, SEPT. 28, 1878. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1878, by the Rural Publishing Company, In the office of the Librarian of ConBreas at Washington.] 
(PRICE SIX CENTS. 
I *3.50 PER YEAR, 
plural ^rd]itcctitTf, 
A THOUSAND-DOLLAR SUBURBAN HOME. 
PAXLISER, PALLISER & CO., ARCHITECTS, BRIDGE¬ 
PORT, CONN. 
The Cottage hero illustrated was designed 
with special reference to meeting the require¬ 
ments of a family of moderate moans, and gives 
them, for an outlay of one thousand dolhra, the 
necessary rooms and conveniences as well as the 
comforts of a real home. 
The designing of small houses as suited to the 
masses of the country at the present time, has 
been very much neglected by the well trained 
and capable members of the architectural pro¬ 
fession; and those requiring cheap homes have 
been obliged to call in the services of the builder 
to assist them In their planning, hence the 
unsightly and meaningless architecture that 
abounds in our suburban and oountry districts. 
But the time is past when people thought that 
tasteful designs and convenient plans must 
necessarily be expensive, and the best architects 
have waked up to a realization of the faot that 
the planning of a workman's cottage is not un¬ 
worthy of their skill, and that there is a con¬ 
stantly Improving and popular artistio taste to 
be catered to; hence we may naturally expect 
better principles both in construction and ex¬ 
ternal appearance, for truth and beauty, good 
taste and artistic excellence, are not the exclu¬ 
sive possesions of the rich, and the modest su¬ 
burban home of the mechanic or busineBS-maH 
may as well be neat and attractive externally and 
convenient in its internal arrangements as un¬ 
gainly and comfortless. 
In the accompanying design we have three 
rooms on the first floor, together with front hall, 
pantry and large closet; the stairs to the cellar 
are accessible from the kitchen, and th© open fire¬ 
place in the living-room is an important feature. 
On the second floor are three spacious chambers, 
each having a good closet; also, there is a small 
closet in the hall. There is a cellar under the 
whole house ; the hight of cellar in the clear is 
six feet six inches; first story nine feet; second 
story eight feet. Roofs are shingled with fine 
Bhingles laid five inches to weather, the frame is 
sheathed with tongned and grooved boards, and 
inclosed with narrow clap-boards three inches to 
weather. The whole is built in a thoroughly 
substantial and complete manner for price named 
above. 
The painting of exterior is in tints, the exte¬ 
rior body-color being Venetian red with trim¬ 
mings of Indian red, and charaferB and incised 
work picked out in black, blinds dark-green. 
It costs little to have an artistic building if one 
begins aright, and while a square box may suit 
the taste of some, the faot is certainly to be de¬ 
plored. A neat artistic building for a rural home, 
is a pretty certain indication of comfort and 
self-respect in its inmates. The house will be 
furnished neatly if not expensively, to accord 
with its external appearance; the grounds sur¬ 
rounding it will be pleasantly laid ont, and the 
whole farm bear evidence of care and thrift. 
Jfarm droitomg. 
REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A GOOD 
FARMER ? 
L. J. TEMTLIN. 
A CLEAR CONCEPTION OP MOOERN FARMING. 
How may I become a good fanner ? ii 
a question that many young men are asking 
themselves at the present time; and foi 
the want of a satisfactory answer to it, manj 
are hesitating about engaging in farming pur¬ 
suits at all. It is a question, the importance ol 
which is not appreciated by a great number ol 
those already in the business. Too many farm¬ 
ers are content with the old, humdrum routine 
of farm work pursued in the same manner il 
has been for generations past. Such was proba¬ 
bly good farming in the days of our fathers oi 
grandfathers; but such is not good farming 
to-day, any more than the old-fashioned stage 
would be a method of fast traveling at the 
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