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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 5S3 us in fig. 1059; the other with two pivots, working on two hooks, as in fig. 1060, in which a is the lianging style of the gate, with the double pivot hinge attached, b h being the pivots; c is the hanging gate-post; and d d, the two pivots leaded into it. The 1059 u m "^ L. 1060 a SJ:. ^ ^^ 1061 object common to both is, to make the point of rest of the gate the same as the shutting point; that is, the line in which the gate remains when it is shut. ) 1113. The Gig-house Door to be made with l:|^-inch deal, with three bars across each half, 1 inch and a half thick, and with angular braces; to have hinges and bolts of a proper strength, the siime as the large gate, and a good stock lock and sneck. This door to be made with an opening three quarters of an inch wide between each deal (board), for the admission of air, the deals not being more than 6 inches broad. 1114. The Bijres to be fitted up as shown in the drawings; the sole trees to be ei ht inches by four inches; the top tree six inches by three inches; and the stakes to be of hard wood. 1115. The whole of the Doors to have good and suflHcient locks, bars, and bolts, where necessary; and all to have strong Scotch-made thumb snecks, with folding handles (handles to hang down, or fold aside) to the same. 1116. The Gates for the open courts to be hung on two leaves, and framed with 1^- inch thick flaming and angle braces; and to be covered on the outside with 1-inch thick deal, ploughed, tongued, and beaded on the joints; and finished on the top with a cope 1 inch and a half thick. The gates to be hung with strong crook and band hinges (in fig. 1061, a is the band, and b the crook; the former is used in the case of boarded doors, which have no hanging styles; the latter is either leaded into stone, or sharpened and driven into wood), and the hinges to be made so that the gate may open on the outside, and fold back to the court walls; and be fixed together, when shut, with a hardwood swivel bar, and iron bolts and staples of sufficient strength. 1117. Granary Windows. The windows of the granary to be fitted in with wooden frames and round iron rods three eighths of an inch in diameter, and three fourths ot an inch apart. The frames to be 2 inches and a half broad, and 2 inches thick; the sole for the frame to be 3 inches and a half by 2 inches and a half, and to be washed off (sloped) on the outside to carry off the rain. There are to be inside shutters five eighths of an inch thick, ploughed, tongued, and beaded on the joints, with a water verge on the bottom (a slip nailed on, to throw oflT the rain), hinged on the two halves, and fixed inside with a cross shifting hard-wood bar, and iron staples. There is to be a standard and deal partition put round the top of the stair in the granaries 3 feet high. Standards 3 inches square, and the boarding 1 inch thick, ploughed and tongued. 1118. The Hayloft to have a door 1 inch thick, with frames, hinges, and folding thumb sneck; the openings for putting the hay down to the horses to have doors three fourths of an inch thick, with frames, hinges, and bars; there is to be a light mov- able trap-ladder to go up to the hayloft by the firont door of ditto; and saddle-trees and pins to put up in the stable. 1119. The Gig-house is to be lathed on the ceiling, and to be finished on the walls and ceiling with two coats of plaster. The floors of the straw-barn, servants' house, potato-house, turkey-house, chaff-hole, and boiling-house to be all laid with a composi- tion of Ume, sand, and engine ashes (coal ashes), three inches thick; to be laid on in due proportions, and properly rubbed and smoothed on the surface. Frames of wood ^