FARM BUILDINGS 



rest on stone piers high enough to let a dog go 

 under the building to look after rats or skunks. 

 The floor timbers are 2x8 inches, and rest 

 wholly on top of the sills; the front ones are 8 

 feet and the back ones 6 feet 6 inches long. 

 The roof is unequal in width, the ridge being 

 8 feet from the front wall. The height of the 

 ridge from the sill to the extreme top is 12 feet. 

 All studding is 2x4 in size and the rafters are 

 2x5. The building is boarded with inch 

 boards, and papered and shingled with good 

 cedar shingles on wall and roof (asbestos shin- 

 gles preferably) . The floor is of two thick- 

 nesses of boards, which breaks joints well in lay- 

 ing. The building is divided by tight board par- 

 titions into twenty pens, each pen being 20 

 feet long. The front side of each pen has two 

 windows of twelve lights of 10x12 glass 

 screwed on uprights 2 feet 8 inches from each 

 end of the room; these are 3 feet above the 

 floor. The space between the windows is 8 

 feet 10 inches long, and the top part of it down 

 from the plate 3>< feet is not boarded but left 

 open to be covered by a cloth curtain when nec- 

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