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Carriage House, 163 Miscellaneous, 163 Lawn and Park Surroundings,
166 An Ancient New England Family, 168 An American Homestead of
the Last Century, 169 Estimate of Cost of Design VI, 172 DESIGN VII.
A Plantation House, 175 Interior Arrangement, 176 Ground Plan, 177
Chamber Plan, 178 Miscellaneous, 179 LAWNS, GROUNDS, PARKS,
AND WOODS, 181 The Forest Trees of America, 183 Influence of
Trees and Forests on the Character of men, 184 Hillhouse and Walter

Scott as Tree Planters, 187 Doctor Johnson, no Rural Taste, 188 Fruit
Garden--Orchard, 194 How to lay out a Kitchen Garden, 197 Flowers,
202 Wild Flowers of America, 203 Succession of Home Flowers, 206
FARM COTTAGES, 208 DESIGN I, and Ground Plan, 213 Interior
Arrangement 214 DESIGN II, and Ground Plan, 216 Interior
Arrangement, 216 DESIGN III, and Ground Plan, 220 Interior
Arrangement, 220 DESIGN IV, and Ground Plan, 226 Interior
Arrangement, 229 Cottage Outside Decoration, 231 Cottages on the
Skirts of Estates, 233 House and Cottage Furniture, 235 APIARY, OR
BEE HOUSE, 246 View of Apiary and Ground Plan, and description,
249 Mode of Taking the Honey, 252 AN ICE HOUSE, 258 Elevation
and Ground Plan, 260 AN ASH HOUSE AND SMOKE HOUSE, 264
Elevation and Ground Plan, 265 THE POULTRY HOUSE, 267
Elevation and Ground Plan, 269 Interior Arrangement, 271 THE
DOVECOTE, 275 Different Varieties of Pigeons, 278 A PIGGERY,
279 Elevation and Ground Plan, 281 Interior Arrangement, 282
Construction of Piggery--Cost, 283 FARM BARNS, 286 DESIGN I.
Description, 291 Interior Arrangement, and Main Floor Plan, 293
Underground Plan, and Yard, 295 DESIGN II. Description, 300 Interior
Arrangement, 303 Floor Plan, 304 BARN ATTACHMENTS, 308
RABBITS, 311 Mr. Rotch's Description of his Rabbits, 313 Rabbits
and Hutch, 315 Dutch, and English Rabbits, 318 Mode of Feeding, 319
Mr. Rodman's Rabbitry, Elevation, and Floor Plan, 322 Explanations,
323 Loft or Garret, Explanation, 324 Cellar plan, Explanation, 325
Front and Back of Hutches, and Explanation, 326 DAIRY
BUILDINGS, 330 Cheese Dairy House, 330 Elevation of Dairy House
and Ground Plan, 331 Interior Arrangement, 333 The Butter Dairy, 335
THE WATER RAM, 237 Figure and Description, 338
GRANARY--Rat-proof, 343 IMPROVED DOMESTIC ANIMALS,
345 Short Horn Bull, 349 Short Horn Cow, 352 Devon Cow and Bull,
355 Southdown Ram and Ewe, 359 Long-wooled Ram and Ewe, 362
Common Sheep, 364 Remarks, 365 WATERFOWLS, 370 The African
Goose, 370 China Goose, 371 Bremen Goose, 372 A WORD ABOUT
DOGS, 374 Smooth Terrier, 377 Shepherd Dog, 381

PREFATORY.

This work owes its appearance to the absence of any cheap and popular
book on the subject of Rural Architecture, exclusively intended for the
farming or agricultural interest of the United States. Why it is, that
nothing of the kind has been heretofore attempted for the chief benefit
of so large and important a class of our community as our farmers
comprise, is not easy to say, unless it be that they themselves have
indicated but little wish for instruction in a branch of domestic
economy which is, in reality, one of great importance, not only to their
domestic enjoyment, but their pecuniary welfare. It is, too, perhaps,
among the category of neglects, and in the lack of fidelity to their own
interests which pervades the agricultural community of this country,
beyond those of any other profession--for we insist that agriculture, in
its true and extended sense, is as much a profession as any other pursuit
whatever. To the reality of such neglects they have but of late awaked,
and indeed are now far too slowly wheeling into line for more active
progress in the knowledge pertaining to their own advancement. As an
accessory to their labors in such advancement, the present work is
intended.
It is an opinion far too prevalent among those engaged in the more
active occupations of our people,--fortified indeed in such opinion, by
the too frequent example of the farmer himself--that everything
connected with agriculture and agricultural life is of a rustic and
uncouth character; that it is a profession in which ignorance, as they
understand the term, is entirely consistent, and one with which no
aspirations of a high or an elevated character should, or at least need be
connected. It is a reflection upon the integrity of the great agricultural
interest of the country, that any such opinion should prevail; and
discreditable to that interest, that its condition or example should for a
moment justify, or even tolerate it.
Without going into any extended course of remark, we shall find ample
reason for the indifference which has prevailed among our rural
population, on the subject of their own domestic architecture, in the
absence of familiar and practical works on the subject, by such as have
given any considerable degree of thought to it; and, what little thought
has been devoted to this branch of building,