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PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR A HOUSE, 20x20 

 FEET WITH 1250 BUSHELS CAPACITY 



The following suggestion for the building of a new 

 storage house will prove valuable to those who have no 

 house that can be remodeled. 



Plans for constructing a new house are shown in Figs. 

 1 and 2. Good material should be used in building 

 the frame work of the house as it must support con- 

 siderable weight when the house is filled. A row of 

 brick, or cement, pillars should be placed ten feet apart 

 under each side and under the middle of the house. 

 These pillars should be at least eighteen inches high 

 so as to give good ventilation under the building. The 

 sills should be six by eight inches and the joists two 

 by eight inches, or two by ten inches and free of knots. 

 If the house is to be weather boarded the studding 

 should be placed two feet apart, while if the house is 

 planked up and down, the studding may be further 

 apart with two lines of purlins running around the 

 house, properly spaced between sill and plate. In Ala- 

 bama, except in the Northern portion, a house built 

 with building paper tacked on the studding inside and 

 out and ceiled inside with flooring and planked up and 

 down on the outside with cracks stripped, will be suf- 

 ficiently warm. Those preferring a warmer house 

 should put on storm sheeting on the outside of the two 

 by fours, building paper and weather boarding. 



The floor and ceiling should be double, with paper 

 between. The first floor may be made of six or eight 

 inch boards with edges fitting close together. The sec- 

 ond floor should be of matched lumber, tongued and 

 grooved and laid at right angles to the first. If the 

 roof is constructed by using boards, with edges close 

 for sheeting and covered with rubber roofing so as 

 to prevent the air coming in, a single ceiling with paper 

 is sufficient. 



The floor should extend out against the outside wall 

 in order to make a perfect dead air space and prevent 

 rats getting between the walls. Do not fill the space 

 between the walls with sawdust, or other materials, 

 as the dead air space is better. 



The plan as shown in Fig. 1 should have a door at 

 one end and a window at the other. If a larger house 

 is built a door should be placed at either end. The 

 bins should be placed four inches from the walls at the 

 back of the bins and six inches at the side of the bins, 



