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harness room. It is pro¬ 
vided with various hooks 
for harnesses, and shelves 
for robes and rugs. A rail 
along the partition between 
the carriage room and the 
granery is used to dry wet 
robes and blankets. 
The floors of the second 
and third floors are made 
of 4" Southern pine floor¬ 
ing. Its edges are grooved, 
and the pieces are held to¬ 
gether by wooden splines. 
This floor is supported on 
heavy beams spaced 10' 
apart. The construction 
has the advantage not only 
of being fire resisting, be¬ 
cause of its thickness, but 
of freeing the stable and 
carriage room floor from 
the cobwebby ceiling, so 
often found in barns. Over 
the carriage room floor 
matched flooring of hard 
maple was used with building paper be¬ 
tween. The walls are finished with matched 
ceiling. The beams are cased. All the 
wood is oiled. With this construction there 
is not a place from ground floor to roof 
where a mouse can hide. It is practically 
vermin proof. 
The roof of the barn has a slope to match 
the farmhouse. It has dormer windows to 
ventilate the hay stored in the loft. The 
roof is slate, with pronged metal pieces set 
along near the edge to break the snow 
slides that might otherwise do damage. 
The barn has worked out so well that 
we feel we could not improve it were we 
to build it again. It is painted to match 
the farmhouse, and is not ugly as a spot 
on the landscape. It cost as follows: 
Digging and mason’s work on foundation 
Grading about foundation. 
Breaking stone for under floor 
Floor blocks. 
Bolts for wood construction... 
Freight . 
Labor . 
Paint . 
Lumber and other material.... 
Painting . 
Total. 
The Farm Cottages 
To carry on the farm 
work successfully it is ne¬ 
cessary to employ men 
whom you can respect, 
men of honest worth and 
purpose. Such men can 
best be found among the 
farmers of the locality. 
Farmer’s sons who have 
married and are looking 
for openings to establish 
homes for themselves, are 
usually firm of purpose and 
steady. We believe in the 
married man, and we want 
him to have a snug, com¬ 
fortable home of his own. 
To this end we built bung¬ 
alows for each family, rath¬ 
er than double houses or 
a boarding-house where un¬ 
married men could be kept. 
So far we have only 
found need for two bunga¬ 
lows. They are situated 
with an arched way into the 
dining-room. Two large 
lights form the lower sash 
and small ones, the upper. 
A group of three large win¬ 
dows light the living-room. 
These are balanced by a 
cluster of four smaller ones 
in the dining-room. These 
two rooms extend across 
the front of the house and 
face west. 
Off the dining-room a 
pantry and kitchen face 
east and south, opening on 
the back porch. Two bed¬ 
rooms are entered from the 
living-room. Along the 
back wall of the living- 
room stairs with a pretty 
rail and newel post lead up 
to the second floor. This 
stairway is closed at the 
top with a door, so the 
whole house does not have 
to be heated in the winter. 
I he second floor contains two bedrooms 
and a square hall for a sewing-room. The 
space under the sloping roof back of the 
bedrooms is used for a storeroom. Closets 
open from each bedroom in the house. 
The floors all over the house are of 
Southern pine, of a quality that can be 
finished and waxed. All the woodwork is 
good enough in quality so that it is finished 
on the grain and varnished. The kitchen 
contains many shelves and cupboards, and 
a kitchen cabinet built in. The walls are 
covered with ingrain papers in light shades 
of green, tan and cream. 
The cellars are 9' deep, well lighted and 
dry. The chimney starts at the cellar bot¬ 
tom, and is arranged for a furnace. So far 
no family has wanted one put in, thinking 
it too costly to run. Stove holes in the 
kitchen, living-room and one upper bed¬ 
room suffice for stoves enough to keep the 
entire house warm. 
Every effort was made to have the houses 
warm. Fleavy building paper was put un¬ 
der the siding. Time has shown us one 
mistake in the construction. We used 
plaster board instead of lath and plaster on 
the walls. It came highly recommended and 
was put on according to di¬ 
rections. Each seam was 
covered with heavy muslin 
before the paper was hung, 
but, in changing weather, 
the boards swell, puff out, 
and crack the paper at the 
seams. We have learned 
our lesson. No more plas¬ 
ter board in our building 
operations, even if it is set 
in panels with strips of 
moulding between, for even 
then the center of the panel 
swells out and is unsightly. 
We used it because it is 
cleaner to put on over good 
floors. 
The water system for the 
cottages was a serious one 
to work out, but now it is 
in it will accommodate two 
or three other bungalows 
if the need for them arises. 
A e established a gravity 
system some distance up 
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it was a cross between a city stable and a country barn. 1 he hrst floor is for the 
horses and cows, second for carriages and wagons and the third a hay loft. 
Cost complete, $3,264.96 
along the main road at the corner where 
our farm road joins it. The first one serves 
the purpose of a lodge at the gate. The 
second is situated further down rhe main 
road. As work on the farm grows more 
heavy this little site may take on the aspect 
of a street. 
When we began work on the farm we 
resolved to build nothing hastily. After 
studying many plans for bungalows we de¬ 
cided to have the architect design one just 
to our need. The plans include working 
drawings and a complete bill of material, 
so that all material can be cut to length be¬ 
fore it is drawn from town. Once on the 
spot it is ready to put up. 
Both houses were built after the same 
plan, but one is painted white with green 
trimmings, the other is Colonial yellow 
with white. This, and different wall paper 
and finishing inside, gives each home its in¬ 
dividuality. 
The interior is most satisfactory. Con¬ 
venience is combined with economy in 
space to give the maximum amount of 
service. A square front porch opens into a 
small entrance away from which is a closet 
for wraps. Then comes a large living-room 
$262.54 
41.50 
9.25 
95.22 
12.62 
33.45 
999.45 
55.93 
1,680.00 
75.00 
$3,264.96 
Both bungalows were built after the same plan, one painted white with green 
trimmings; the other, Colonial yellow with white 
