SUPERIOR SHEDS. 



with side pieces pinned on with an auger and wooden pins. 

 The roof is secured by weighing it down with logs ; so that 

 neither hammer, nails, brick, or stone, is concerned in the 

 structure ; and locks and keys are very rarely deemed 

 necessary. 



" The second kind of tobacco houses differ somewhat from 

 these, with a view to longer duration. The logs are to this 

 end more choicely selected. The foundation consists of four 

 well hewn groundsels, of about eight by ten inches, leveled 

 and laid upon cross sawed blocks of a larger tree, or upon 

 large stones. The corners are truly measured, and squared 

 diamond- wise, by which means they are more nicely notched 

 in upon each other ; the roof is fitted with rafters, footed 

 upon wall plates, and covered with clap-boards nailed upon 

 the rafters in the manner of slating. In all other respects 

 this is the same with the last mentioned method ; and both 

 are left open for the passage of the air between the logs. 



" The third kind is laid upon a foundation similar to the 

 second ; but instead of logs, the walls are composed of 

 posts and studs, tenoned into the sells, and braced ; the top 

 of these are mounted with a wall-plate and joists ; upon these 

 come the rafters ; and the whole is covered with clap-boards 

 and nails, so as to form one uninterrupted oblong square, 

 with doors, etc., termed, as heretofore, a forty, sixty, or one 

 hundred feet tobacco house, etc. 



" The fourth species of these differs from the third only in 

 the covering, which is generally of good sawed feather-edged 

 plank ; in the roof, which is now composed of shingles ; and 

 in the doors and finishing, which consist of good sawed plank, 

 hinged, &c. Sometimes this kind are underpinned with a 

 brick or stone wall beneath the groundsels ; but they have no 

 floors or windows, except a plank or two along the sides to 

 raise upon hinges for sake of air, and occasional light : indeed, 

 if these were constructed with sides similar to the brewery 

 tops in London, I think it would be found advantageous. In 

 respect to the' inside framing of a tobacco house, one descrip- 

 tion may serve for every kind : they are so contrived as to 

 admit poles in the nature of a scaffold through every part of 

 them, ranging four feet from centre to centre, which is the 

 length of the tobacco stick, as heretofore described ; and the 

 lower ties should be so contrived as to remove away occasion- 

 ally, in order to pursue other employments at different stages 

 in the process of curing the crop." 



In Ohio, the tobacco barns are built in a manner similar to 



