INDEX

Abandoned lands, significance of, [31].
Agricultural statistics, [8]; what they do not show, [10].
Agriculturists, what they have done, [8].
Air space required in cow stables, [281].
Anglo-Saxon, cause of superiority, [50].
Animal, necessity of exercise for, [278]; voidings, how cared for in stables, [277].
Asphalt for stable floors, [292].
Bailey, Professor L. H., quoted, [7].
Bailey, chap. xiv, [237].
Balloon frames, [129].
Barns, [288]; basement, location of, [268]; building the basement, [266]; connected by covered way to house, [257]; discussion of, [249]; distance to locate from house, [257]; economy in construction, [253]; excavations for, [268]; high large ones preferable, [253]; location of, [255]; octagonal, discussion of, [254]; planning, [259]; size required, [249]; water supply for, [261]; why large ones are required, [250].
Barnyards, open ones objectionable, [258]; paddocks are preferable to, [259].
Basement barns, bridging for, [269]; location of, [268]; on level ground, [269]; floors, how to construct, [277]; walls, how to prevent dampness on, [275]; wood preferable to stone, [275].
Beauty and utility should be combined, [107].
Bonanza farming, cause of decline, [36-38].
Brick used in stable floors, [278].
Building the barn, chap. xvii, [288]; framing, [289]; horse stables, [294]; lightning rods on barns, [296]; painting the barn, [296]; plank frames, [290]; protecting the root-cellar, [289]; repairing old barn floors, [293]; roof of barns, [296]; stable floors, [292]; windows, [295].
Cattle, stanchions for, [284].
Cement, Portland, cost and mixing of, [274]; proportion of, to sand in mortar, [273].
Changes in houses, considerations, [85].
Children, city and country compared, [3].
Cisterns as a source of water supply, [263].
Cleanliness, and sanitation, water supply and sewage, chap. xii, [204]; bacteria, harmful and beneficial, [204-206]; bath room, [210]; bath tubs, [213]; cess pools, [220]; closets, [210]; disinfectants, [207]; dry-earth closets, [222]; kitchen sink, [212]; laundry, [214]; outhouses, [216]; personal cleanliness, [209]; pipes, [212]; sewage, [219]; water closets, [214]; water supply, [217].
College buildings and what they illustrate, [104].
Colleges. Land Grant, aim of, [14]; endowment, [14]; data of incomes, [15].
Competence, how obtained, [20].
Concentration of barns, [84].
Counsel at the right time, [69].
Country churches, [119].
Country life, what it stands for, [74]; what things have no place in it, [74].
Country school houses, [119-122].
Cows, air space required for, [280], [281]; mangers for, section of, [286].
Crops, good and poor, [27]; specialized, baleful results of, [33].
Dams for artificial pools, how to construct, [262].
Decorations inside, [193].
Deeds and abstracts, [67].
Demolins, M., quoted, [50].
Economy, [224].
Educating the eye and judgment, [107].
Education, by contact with nature, [4]; higher, concentration necessary, [52]; higher, in the past, [13]; industrial, [14].
Evolution of high wages, [25].
External construction, principles of, [108].
Farm buildings, concentrated and distributive, [251]; concentrated system preferable, [252]; examples of mistakes, [89].
Farm laborers, wages received by, [253].
Farmers’ contribution to economic status of the United States, [9].
Farms, selection of—climatic conditions, [55]; cheap lands, [56]; water supply, [57].
Farms overloaded with buildings, [88].
“Farming doesn’t pay,” [6].
Fences, [336].
Fields, the, chap. xxi, [336].
Filigree work, not for farm houses, [96].
First impressions, [116].
Floors, basement, how to construct, [277]; cows to stand upon, [280]; stable, wooden ones preferable, [278].
Foundations for buildings, how squared, [266].
Foundation walls, properly and improperly bonded, [272].
Frost pockets, [76].
Furnishing, [193].
Garden, farm, [341]; planting the, [342].
Gingerbread cornices, [130].
Ground floor unhealthy, [77].
Gypsum, use of in stables, [277].
Heating, [190].
Home education suggestions, [48].
Home, old (should be preserved), [112]; suggestions for improvement of, [113].
Home training, [46].
Homestead, improving the old, [114].
Horn-fly, reference to, [337].
House, building the, chap. viii, [132]; brick and stone houses, [169]; chimneys—flue linings, [140], openings for, [141]; excluding vermin from the, [135]; foundations, building the, [138]; mortar for foundations, [139]; protecting from frost, [136]; the cellar, [133], [134]; Wooden houses—the frame, [142]; bridging the joists, [143]; cutting braces and rafters, [150]; diagonal boarding, [144]; girders for second-story joists, [145]; made-up timbers, [146]; old houses, [170]; roofs—kinds of, [147], pitch of, [149]; studding, size of, [143]; the story-and-a-half, [155].
House furnishing and decoration, chap. xi, [193]; carpets vs. rugs, [196]; decorations, [200]; draperies, [198]; general principles, [193-196].
House, location of, [74]; extremes, [75]; on elevated lands, [76], [80], [82].
House of pioneer, where located, [75].
House, old farm, an example of a good, [90-91].
House sites—old and new, [84].
House sites to be avoided, [82]; near middle of estate, [83]; and highway, [83].
House with many gables, [96].
Houses, exposed and overshaded, [117], [118]; planning, [94]; studying other models, [95]; useless cost of, [95].
Houses, farm, not a direct source of income, [87]; mistakes in building, [87]; what they are for, [87].
Houses, old farm, [85].
Houses, veneered, [168].
Household administration, economy and comfort, chap. xiii, [224]; a definite income, [225]; bargain-hunting, [229]; cash vs. credit, [286]; economy of health, [232]; keeping accounts, [230]; reading matter, [235]; systematic buying, [227]; the farmer’s diet, [234]; the wife’s share, [225].
Improvements on the farm, [59].
Inappropriate styles of architecture, [124].
Inside finish, heating and ventilation, chap. x, [181]; baseboards, [183]; facings, [186]; finish, hard oil, [186]; floors, [182]; patent mortars, [188]; plastered walls, [186-188]; picture moulding, [184]; stairs, [185]; wainscoting, [185]; Heating—steam recommended, [191]; systems of, compared, [190]; Ventilation, [191].
Land for market-gardening, [61].
Lands, cheap, [56].
Lawns, [243].
Lawyer and the farmer, [73].
Lawyer, province of the true, [72].
Lawyers, [65].
Level country, disadvantages of location in, overcome, [78].
Leisure and study, [13].
Light and air, [106].
Lightning, artificial, [322]; brush discharge, [326]; discharges, [323]; disruptive discharge, [326]; protection from, [324]; protection from by metal roofs, [324]; protection from by steam and gas pipes, [325]; protecting wooden roofs from, [326].
Lightning protection, chap. xx, [321].
Lightning rods, [328-336]; insulation of, [331]; joints for, [333]; the conductor, [329]; the ground connection, [334].
Lime, proportion of, to sand in mortar, [273].
Lime, stone, retail price of per bbl., [274]; water, retail price of per bbl., [274].
Lumbering, effect of, [38].
Manger for cows, cross-section of, [286]; how constructed, [285].
Market-gardening, land for, [61].
Mistakes in locating, [100].
Mortar, amount of water to use in mixing, [275]; how to mix, [273].
Nature study, [111].
Newton cattle tie illustrated and described, [286].
Norris, H. H., chap. xx, [321].
Occupation, selection of, [21].
Old barns, remodeling, [298].
Orchards, [340]; care of, [341].
Outbuildings and accessories, chap. xix, [306]; piggeries, [311]; portable coops, [309]; poultry houses, [306]; the silo, [316].
Outside covering, painting, chap. ix, [158]; cornices, [164]; painting the house, [173]; adulterated paints, [179]; analyses of paints, [180]; oils for painting, [177]; roofs—construction of, [165]; shingles, [165]; shingling, [167]; siding—novelty and lap, [160]; the projections, [158], [164]; the water-table, [158]; valleys, [173].
Parents as teachers, [45].
Piggeries, [311].
Plain cornices, [126].
Plan, ground, not adapted to country, [98]; adapted to country, [99], [101].
Plant-food, natural cheaper than artificial, [62].
Pools in level country, [78].
Pools in the South, how constructed, [262].
Poultry Houses, [306].
Quality in farm products, [32].
Red River valley soil, nitrogen in, [37].
Remodeling old barns, chap. xviii, [298]; combining several old frames, [299]; form of roof, [302]; trussing to eliminate posts, [301].
Remuneration in agriculture, [7].
Renter and renting discussed, [40].
Road to farm, [63].
Road fences, may be discarded, [339].
Root cellar, location of in barn, [270].
Rosendale cement, proportion to mix, [274].
Rural life; advantages and disadvantages, [2]; greatest advantage of, [5].
Rural population, wants and aspirations, [19].
Sanitation, [204].
Scenery, natural, its value, [58].
Schoenfeld, Mr. G., an intensive agriculturist, [22]; his crops and their value, [23].
School, district, sketch of a day in, [47].
School children, effects of massing, [44].
Schools, rural, [43].
Sewage, [204].
Shadows cast by walls, [106].
Ship construction of houses, [128].
Silos, [316].
Silo, reference to use of, [337].
Smith, Mrs. M. R., chap. xi, [193]; chap. xii, [204]; chap. xiii, [224].
Soil and subsoil for house location, [80].
Soiling system, referred to, [337], [338].
Stable floors, [292]; wooden ones preferable, [278]; drip in, how constructed, [280]; how to secure sanitary conditions in, [277]; stanchions for cattle, [284].
Stalls for cows, how constructed, [285].
Stock on the farms in U. S. in 1870 and 1890, [250].
Tillage, cost of, considered in land value, [62].
Types of dwelling houses, [109].
VanVleet, D.F., chap. v, [65].
Ventilation, [191]; principles of, [283]; secured by swing windows, [282].
Ventilators for stables, how constructed, [282].
Veranda—a poor example, [96]; outlook from, [81]; shading, [103].
Vistas and views brought into the landscape, [81].
Warner, Prof. Amos G., quoted, [3].
Walls, stone, how to bond, [272].
Water for animals, temperature best in winter, [264].
Water supply and sewage, [204].
Water supply, artificial pools for, [262]; for animals, should be in barn, [264]; for buildings, [261]; springs and streams, [264].
Water, cold, effect upon the animal, [265]; lime, retail price of per bbl., [274].
Wells, [71].
Wheat, production and cost of, [30].
Windows, swing, how constructed in stables, [282].
Writing, matters of importance should be in, [71].
Yard (the house yard), chap. xiv, [237]; driveways and walks, [239]; flowers, [247]; planting, scattered and in groups, [339]; the lawn, [243]; vines and creepers, [247].