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 FAUiM EIOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 403 and a half; liip rafters, 10 inches by two inclics ; common rafters, 3 inches by 2 inches and a half, not to exceed 18 inches apart middle and middle; binders (tie beams) 8 inches by 2 inches and a half; ribs, (5 inches by 3 inches and a quarter ; ridge, 3 inches and a quarter by 3 inches and a quarter; granary joists, 10 inches by 2 inches and a half; raising plates, 6 indies by 1 inch and a half; lintels, 4 inches thick by the breadth required for the low buildings. The lintels for the granary windows, 3 feet and a half by the breadth required. Hinder posts to stalls, 5 inches by 5 inches ; fore posts, 5 inches by 3 inches. Sarking of five-eighths-inch deal, 9 inches broad, to be laid on the eaves and ridges of the roofing on each side. Gutter boards to the valleys to be laid with three-quarters-inch deal, covered with sheet lead, 18 inches broad, 6 pounds to the foot, which is to be provided, and laid at the carpenter's expense. — The stable to be fitted up with stalls, as shown on the plan and section. The stall partitions to be fitted up with inch-and-quarter deal, and to have a 9-inch batten jilaced horizontally about the middle of each side. The top and bottom rail, 4 inches by 3 inches and a quarter, to be grooved to receive the same. The rails to be tenoned into the stall posts ; and the stall posts to be set into proper stones at the bottom, and fixed to girding pieces at top, 5 inches by 3 inches, nailed to the under side of the tie-beams. The hinder posts to be fixed at the top with a screw bolt. Mangers to be fixed between the stall partitions, with fronts and bottoms of inch-and-half deal ; the back to be of inch- and-quarter, and the fronts to have a roller 2 inches and a quarter in diameter, grooved and fixed : each manger to have a wrought-iron ring and staple fixed. The hay-racks to be made 2 feet and a half wide ; the rungs (spokes) of 1 inch and a half deal ; the rack sides, 3 inches and a half by 3 inches; a harness rail 12 feet long, with proper pins, to be fixed in the stables. — The cow-byres to be fitted up with partitions and stakes, as shown in the drawing. The partitions to be cleaded (clothed) with inch-and- quarter deal, and proper posts of the old materials, provided any of them can be found suitable. The stakes to be let into the cribstones at bottom, and to be fixed at the top to joists, 8 inches by 4 inches, laid through for that purpose. — The calf- house to be fitted up with pens, as shown in the di-awing ; and the partitions to be formed with posts and rails, and paled. The posts to be 3 inches and a quarter square, let into stones at bottom, and fixed to a joist at top, laid through for that purpose. The partitions to have three rails in height, 3 inches by 1 inch and a quarter. The pales to be 4 feet high, 2 inches and a half by three quarters of an inch, and to be well nailed to the rails ; each pen to have a small wicket, hung with sinall bands and crooks, and each having a hasp and staple for fastening. — Doors. All the outside doors of the farmery to be battened of inch-and-quarter deal, grooved and tongued. The barn and straw-house ditto to be hung in two halves. The whole to be hung with bands and crooks, run into stone cheeks. To provide and fix on the same a common wrought-iron sneck (latch), fig. 985, and catch, with ring handle to hang down. The barn, straw-house, granary, and stable doors all to have stock locks of the value of 5s. 6d. each, and proper iron bolts and staples to be supplied for all the other 985 doors. The cottage outside doors to have each a thumb sneck and catch, and a stock lock of the value of 4s. The cottage inside doors to be made of 1-inch deal, battened, grooved and tongued, and hung on frames with 3 bands ; and each to have a Norfolk latchet. I'he stable door to be hung in the middle with strap hinges, to allow the !1 door to fall back against the wall. The door between the straw- house and barn to be of 1-incli deal, battened, grooved, and tongued ; hung on frames with 7 bands, 22 inches long, and to have a sneck the same as the stable doors, with an iron bolt and staples. — Windows. The cottage v.indows to be made with case- ments, and iron bars, forming small panes, about 6 inches by 4 inches, to be fitted into solid frames, leaded and rabbeted ; 4 feet three quarters of an inch by 3 feet 7 inches inside of frames ; scantling of frame, 3 inches and a half by 3 feet : one casement in each to be made to slide. The above to have outside shutters of three-quarters-inch deal, grooved and tongued, hung on frames with small bands and crooks. Each window to have an iron cotteral (a spring wedge, fig. 986) and an "''° iron turn (a fastening, see Index) to keep it back. The small wmdows for (W^ the cottage dairies to be made with inside sliding trellises, 22 inches )1 square. The windows for the stable, granary, and foal-house to be made lj 3 feet high, 2 feet 10 inches wide; and to have inside sliding trellis frames, 3 inches by 2 inches and a half. The stoothing partition and ragglings to be fitted up so as to form a dairy and lobby in the cottages, with door-frames for ditto, 4 inches by 3 inches ; and stoothings, 2 inches and a half by 2 inches and a lialf. The dairies to be shelved, with two shelves in height, each 12 inches broad, of inch-and-quarter deal, with brackets. The cottage windows to have inch-and- quarter deal bottoms, and 1-inch deal backs. ITie jambs and heads of the doors and