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Home Spirit, that indefinable, intangible atmosphere which can never be seized and appropriated, can never be added to an ugly and tasteless place, has no money value, cannot be won without wooing, but which breathes from every tree and shrub, catches up and intensifies the colors and fragrance of the flowers, gives comfort and joy to the simple farm buildings, hallows the whole place, and makes every member of the family radiant with a something which all can recognize, love, and desire, though they cannot define.

This home spirit is not the result of calculation and carpentry; it cannot be built into the house, and yet it is never more plainly shown to the stranger than in the very work of man's hands, of carpenter, mason, painter, and gardener. The architect does not design it; he cannot. It is individual, and belongs to those who build the house and ornament it. It influences them in the choice of a design, it instinctively teaches them how to select aright the plan of the house, the location, the externals; it is the natural result of a life spent in the love of nature, of beauty, of religion; it comes only to those who humbly seek to be all that the best men should be, and when it comes, they are as unconscious of it as the Heliotrope of its fragrance; but it issues out and enfolds a house and its inmates, so that the rudest hind feels it, and every one seeks to reproduce it. The children who grow up in the house redolent with it always love their birthplace, and return to it long years after, when perhaps the hand of time has picked out the mortar from the chimneys, has broken the trellis from the vines under which they used to sit and play, has planted weeds in the flower-beds, and neglected to prune the long ago too luxuriant hedge. But amid all the change those who love it see their early home, and can easily reproduce it. It is rare that the child of such a home is any thing but an honor to it; its light burns to him forever; he carries the sacred fire in him, and his share of the home spirit will live in him to be breathed out in a new home at some future time.

The stock farmer, as I have said, is well able to found a home like this.

Next he must select a good position for his barn. It should be at a convenient distance from the house, near, but not too near, and