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 370 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. there will be an ample volume of air in each for health. The whole of this house may be effectually heated by the oven and kitchen fires, without any others. An ironing stove may be placed in the laundry ; for which purjjose there may be a flue built in the stack which contains the kitchen flue. In this Design, and the preceding one, it will be observed that there are no passages ; which is a great saving of room. The general appearance of this farm house may be as in fig. 756. 742. A Model Farm House for a small Farmer has been given by Morel- Vinde, which we consider perfect in its kind, for a country where the chief material of construction is timber of a small size. No piece of wood, in constructing this Design, is longer than ten or twelve feet, or thicker, when squared, than six inches on the side. It is not intended that this wood shall be cut out of large trees, but that it shall be squared from young trees or branches ; to the end that, in countries abounding with wood, it shall not cost more than that which is used for fuel. The walls are framed of timber, and the panels filled in, and covered with weather-boarding or plaster, outside, and lath and plaster inside. The cellar floor of this Design, fig. 757, contains two divisions, a bake 757 •' ^ ' y y ^^ -■ T;^ house, in which there is a stove, c, for heating the apartments above; an oven, /* ; and a supporting post for the parlour floor, /i. The cellar has also a supporting post, I, and the entrance to botli has six descending steps at o. The use of the two posts, k and I, is to admit of forming all the joists of the floor above of wood not longer than ten or twelve feet. Fig. 758 is the plan of the ground floor, in which may be seen the parlour, a, with a small office, h, and a bed for the master and mistress in a recess, c ; the kitchen with its dresser, i, at one end of which there is a post, k, to support the floor above. In the centre of the building may be seen the stove funnel, /, with three small openings to the two bed-rooms, h h, and to the parlour, a ; one of the bed- rooms containing two beds, d d, for children, and the other two for female servants, e e. In the mid wall may be seen at g the flue from the oven ; and at one end the dairy, m, and the harness and small tool room, n : at the opposite end is a water-closet, p ; and a house for wood and the larger farm implements, q. The entrance is by the ascending