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28. When a carriage-house, hay-barn and stable are erected 

 under one roof, the posts may be eighteen or twenty feet high, 

 just as well as ten or twelve feet to the roof. When the posts 

 are short there is but little room for hay. It will cost but a few 

 dollars more to erect a carriage-house with twenty-feet posts than 

 with twelve-feet posts. 



29. I have erected a carriage-house the past summer, with 

 eighteen-feet posts ; and I regret they were not twenty feet long. 

 The roof is one-third pitch, and on the top, at the middle of the 

 ridge, is a hole five and a half feet square ; and a square cupola, 

 with a door five and a half feet square on one side of it, is 

 erected over it, into which hay is pitched with a horse-fork. The 

 highest pulley is attached in the top of the cupola. With such 

 an arrangement the loft can be filled with hay to the peak with 

 no inconvenience. 



30. As tie beams are always very much in the way in a hay- 

 barn, in my carriage-house loft, braces, made of iron-wood poles 

 six inches in diameter and seven feet long, were neatly fitted, 

 without tenons, and bolted to the middle posts below the plats, and to 

 the upper side of the middle beam with iron bolts three-fourths of an 

 inch in diameter, as represented by Fig. 3. Such braces keep the 



3 ( _ t beam from sagging, and the 



plates from spreading apart. 



SCARFING TIMBERS. 



31. It is often very difficult to 

 procure timber of a given length. 

 For sills and beams that are well 

 sustained with middle posts or 

 studs, they subserve about as 

 good purpose if they are neatly 

 scarfed together, and keyed, or 

 well bolted. 



32. There are several different 

 modes of scarfing, or ' splicing" 

 timbers ; but some are very in 



efficient, while some others will render a stick almost as strong as 



MANXER OF BOLTING A TIE ERACE TO BEAM 



AND I'.te-r. 



