�f th� farm and Home 35. £stabHs-iied t8:63. a Year Volu'm� 5.5.,,·N·umb:et" ,TOPEKA .. XANSAS" 'SEPT:EMBER 1, .917. $1 THE FARMHOUSE IMPROVED Plan • .:American I11trmhouse is 'com­ ana many go.od plans would net j)l'ov.ide Etherton, "if earefully worked out, are an alcove .of the dining ,1'o<om ·for an ex­ ing into -its "own," says Prof. for 'it. The farm ,tenant house .i.s re­ valullib:le for their llpggestions. It· is ample Q.f that kin�, but conti!!-�{' �1- "THEW. A. Etherton, of the Kansas garded qy many owners as a .better .solu­ probable, too, that a. ready-made plan forts for eonvemence ,an·, �onomy AgricUl'tur.al 'College, in his .introduction tion of the prob'lem w.here permanent .can be found wllich Js .much better for caused the abandonment .;tliat plan. .." 'is It is the smallest kitohe to the bunetj.n entitled "The 1F1armhouse _ the than another which' the ''i� help required, purpose �now:n, and, � � ' improv.ed.. '''It:has suffered neglect A separate room lor a farm' 'Bffice owner and the -eountry carpenter .:nmy for the housewife who e work -;:. ..... during :pa'St ·yeaT.8 ·of industriall pfogresa might- be, in demand. .Thi� room could ,de:v.ise. The UI!e of -sueh a plan may help ?r with only one h:elper th'kr<aa, 7 '::, and -tel'l'itorial expansion, but there is be found in some of the .larger and more to avoid unforeseen dlffieultdea which are IS the most convement. '-.ld·tMr"'!ealoiJ.!e ino longer a great 'need as formerly for expensive plans, but nof in .others for sure to be encountered in building from and w.ater supply, the was ater dram, a which ,are "the home "to .8tart.' which more items :must be that are .not .Bub and ache . sRcrificing get important plans cat1ef·ully made, �he �sh disposal -<. m J farm were as the other Moreover, .the American family ·sacrificed. ..the plans in this bulletin made provided- ·,plans. it !'!"",- knows better than ev.er aids ,in and ex­ convenient of ch1n eseff- today, before, The wHe would hav-e 'wery definete no­ developing, trying out, arrangement that are features of the and sink and for the· home improvements necessary tions about seme items per.taining to plain-iug impo.rtant work, special provisions t:o a relization of the things in life that her workshop and the home of the and t·hey are here .used to exemplify disposal of slops and also for the tern· are most w<or,th while. It knows, too, family. If 'she .has been. .aecustomed to important items in the ,text. A lar.ger poracy disposal of w.aste paper, etrings, that-the future holds number of does not ueed­ broken etc. It has an aleeve for ,g.reater o.pportuni. lal'ge kitchens, she might discard' at 'once plans appear glass. ties for the farm home and in­ ful for th�s ane work. This alcove is greater IItll kitchenet.te plans. She w.ould be .sure purpose. They explained pastry equipped centives 101' improving iIt that have ob­ a>beut the best location fur the <laundry briefly in this chapter .fer t�e conven­ with ·a work table, cupboards, .fleur and tained in the ience of who <Dot for meal and .a. which past. and might demand that it tbe in a build­ _readers may care bins, ,cooling ·closllt "The and 'social lines between the detailed informatdon in has .in the north walL 'l1he p'hy-sical ing detached from the ;house, or 'in the succeedlag openings '!lnd town are Jess dis­ kitchen has. a raised anolVe the country growing basement, or adjoining the kitchen. She chapters." ceiling tinct. folk are their homes and· an from this heat City building might believe ,jn parlors for the !iiMm O.f the plans l'eferred to, we hav;e ae­ range opening ill the and farm famibies into .a vent flue. It has a south� .<country are home and rightfully. demand such a 'room lected for description and illustration pocket in their automobiles and door w.hich the summer breezes driving riding for .her daughters, 'but there would be thlllt of House No.4. This ,plan ha:s an through on interurban to ehureh and school can blow into the and north win­ cars many plans without paelors, inclosed porch under the .main roof of r.oom, in town. 'Ilh:e obscure farmhouse of to­ .Some plans, and: probably the larger the house, "which is the prlneipal living dows through which the fumes and heat 'be on a or a can be carried It has a flood! of day may paved highway Dumper of ·them-; would have one .oon­ i'oom lor the family in 'summer 'and duro away. boulevard tomorrow. Such changes are venienoe in particular that country 'folk ing all but the coldest days of "Winter. north light. It has the range, sink. work of now accomplished facts in Isome of the have been slow to accept and to provide. It communicates by double doers with table, and cupboards within two stepa older staws and. are the center of the 1100m. It has direct they enereaohing '.Dilis is the 'roomy which is an room that may 'be used as porch . adjoining the nerwer ones, W'.ith bet­ and short lines to the raptdlyupen .sereened against insects and has .folding a sitting room, a parlor., or .a bedroom. 4-ining room, the. ter roads .and mare with the in the tbe .automobl'lea, sash, drop canvas curtains, or some other It is easily accessible from the kitchen porch, refrigerator haU, 'Uld other .hemc the water-closes eff tbe ,stair telephones canvefiiences, practical means of protecting the porch .and may be used -as a dining room. The stairs, there will be hetter the the side and u,l'mihouscs, also,'and irem 'wind and.rain. The ulltra·censerva· porch door which opens to the stair hall landing, laundlY, exit, more who 'iW:ill 'Want to live in ti,ve builder who ·tRis is so as .to mak,e room behind it the basement. ;p.eople regar.ds convenience. placed .. them." The' is convenient -to the ,.: as a· fad of city folk 'Would be disap· for a double bed. The pOI{'h ·can be en­ laundry It is pointed out lift ;tIle opening chap· when his selection to in width the kitchen and to the siae .entrance. ilt is pointed ma:king larged by omitting p<Or�h . teI" thai; the house needed the four below the 'first floor level }llan by find .so few plans without it. closet, the dining room closct,. and :the steps fum owner cannot oft-en be it and but one ar two above the found; The many materla:Is of construction. broom closet, .but none of these can well steps more ·must. be made. :A. theusand good plans and the of ac· be ground. ObViously, d·t would be mwny ways "Using theD! _ spared. and of farmhouscs would not convenient in between kitchen deSigns ·count for numerous other combinations This .plan pro;vides fpr II; separate din­ passing suffice the need of o"wners for architec­ -and to h-ave both rooms on the to choose from, and the weeding·out pro· ing room. The room .is 'without sun· laundry tural assistance of this kind. If .one hacil. same and less convenient in cess could be continued until ten times. shine, except such as can enter through level, pass­ this ,numoer of to from to ()utside ·or to the re.pl'esentativ.e plans the number of plans and designs pro· north window.s, ,but 'it is well ventiJated ing laundry select from, less than one·tenth of them posed would not furnish the exacting through wide casements at the two ends bas.ement. The 'arr�gelnent bere shown would one's for size a:voids the outside which are so meet 'l'equirements farm owner with one that IS quite as .and through Ithl1ee doors. It is .directly steps and cost. .11a1f or more of this in winter. It mak,es 'Probably good as it might be, .and perhaps ougbt accessible from the wash room 'and stair objectionable pos­ tenth 'would not be for the number sible a concrete floor on the It part to be, for his particular needs. What, hall and has a. very direct route ifr,om ground. of stories wanted. of the houses a. entrance to the basement Many then, cII,n be the value of so 'few plans .the kitchen. ,gives grade would be 'suitable for level It lowel's the floor ef the room ·only building a-s 'here shown f This is essentiaLly.a. kitchenette ,plan. steps. whereas 'one want to buIld above the to the level m the sites, .may "Rea_dy·made plans," says 'Professor 'The first effort was to make the kitchen laundry on a hinside and have entrances from ·�tair landing and thus adds j;o the ·eeon· two 1eve1-s. The site lbe of the ' bui.lding may' 'omy plan. south 'of the highway, but many of the The laundry is l�ghted and ventilated plans would be made for farmsteads mt by casement windows on the .eout.h and the north, tl1e east, and {he west sides by the door on the :east. It ·has' 18ta­ of the road. Some of the .plan.s would tionary wash ·tubs a,nd !room for.a. ·clothes be made 1'Qr semi·trepical, or v.ery tem· basket at either end of tne <tubs.