A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



The latter is easily fixed and can be used 

 for such a multitude of purposes both in the 

 garden and about the poultry houses, that if 

 you can spare the time, make a few different- 

 sized frames of shingle slats ; cover them with 

 cheap muslin, using half-inch wire nails and 

 stretching the muslin as evenly as possible. 

 Then with a paint brush give the whole sur- 

 face a coat of linseed oil. When it dries, 

 you will have a capital imitation of a hotbed 

 sash, which is light to handle, not easily 

 broken, nearly as transparent as glass and 

 quite as protective. 



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