56 THE YOUNG FARMEK'S MANUAL. 



sistance of two men, of increasing the height of all the lower 

 rooms of a two-story house. The lower rooms were eight and a 

 half feet between joints, and it was desirable to make them ten 

 feet high. Four screws were paced under the side sills of the 

 house, two of them a few feet from one end, and two others about 

 the middle of the building. One end of the house was elevated 

 about twenty inches, when it was sustained on shores, placed 

 under the beams, and girts. The sills and floor were then low 

 ered with the screws to their original position, when the ends 

 of the post and studs at one end of the building were all scarfed, 

 or "spliced," and the sills were then raise.d again with the screws, 

 and the shores were taken out, and the building was then lowered 

 on the foundation. Then the two end screws were paced near 

 the other end, and that end was elevated and sustained on shores, 

 and the floor lowered, and the remainder of the posts and studs 

 were scarfed, and the shores were then removed, and the house 

 lowered to its original position. 



58. Barns and outbuildings which are too low, may be raised, 

 in a short period of time, ten or more feet higher ; and the posts 

 scarfed at an expense of a few dollars. If the spaces below the 

 main beams of a barn are about right, let the roof only be raised ; 

 but if the arrangement of the timbers is about as one desires, 

 above, and not below the beams, raise the superstructure and 

 scarf the posts, or put a part of a new frame beneath the old one. 

 (See PAINTING BUILDINGS in the next vol.) 



