Jan. 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W. 31 



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Fig. 19. 



The cost of this house is, comparatively speaking, little more than that of 

 the slab one, but it is a sanitary and healthy house in every way, and 

 Tvill last many years. The framework consists of light round posts, with 

 rails of sawn stuff, braced with battens where required, (four) rafters on the 

 roof, with battens 1% inch thick to take the iron. Both walls and roof are 

 covered with corrugated iron. The wall iron may be set into the floors (see 

 page 860, 1907), th^ls keeping the faces free from any ledges to hold dirt, and 

 making both walls and floor all the more easy to clean. Shoidd it be desired 

 to have a bottom rail in the walls to fix the iron to, let it be on the outside 

 face, and a few inches off the floor, so that the rain will not rot the wood, 

 and the inside will be free to clean down. 



The roof -lights may be thought too elaborate for a pig-sty, but sunlight is 

 most necessary, and in no way can it be better provided for than through 

 the roof. Protection from hailstones can easily be provided for by wire- 

 netting. They ma}^ be on hinges, to allow of them being opened for ventila- 

 tion in summer. They are made in the corrugated sheet of iron ready for 

 fixing, which is no more trouble to do than fixing another sheet, and can be 

 had any length, as ordered. They cost — say, in 9-foot sheets — opening lights, 

 23s. ; fixed lights, 19s., including glass. 



The floor, as shown, is of brick paving, laid flat on the sand, requiring 

 thirty-two bricks per square yard, the outer edge bricks being set on their 

 ends to make the border stronger. The joints of the bricks when laid are 

 kept % inch open, and after the floor is thus paved, a liquid cement-mortar 

 grout is made and poured into all the joints until they are quite full and 



