CHEAP OUT- BUILDINGS. 591 



In a well finished house it should be plastered. In furna- 

 ces made exclusively for heating purposes, sheet iron is used to 

 conduct the heated air backward and forward in the furnace. 

 The bottom of the oven is made of plate iron eight inches wide, 

 which is supported by iron tiles, an edge resting on each 

 flange of the tile. The shape of the tile or a sectional diagram 

 looks something like this : rn ri 



ANDREW SULZMAN, 



TECUMSEH, JOHNSON COUNTY. 



Cheap Out-Buildings — Timber Culture — Orchard — Corn and 



Stock. 



In the Spring of 1868, 1 located here, on wild prairie, two 

 miles east of Tecumseh, the county seat of Johnson county, 

 Nebraska, and one mile east of the great Nemaha river. My 

 farm contains three hundred and twenty acres of prairie land, 

 being surrounded by a good Osage orange hedge, and a belt of 

 timber, about three rods wide, on the north side. I have 

 inclosed ten acres with a hedge and a belt of timber, two rods 

 wide, for orchard, building site, and stock lots, but find I have 

 scarcely room enough, and might better have enclosed twenty 

 acres instead of ten. 



BUILDINGS. 



My buildings at present are not very extensive, but I 

 design to make considerable improvement. My house is eigh- 

 teen by twenty-six, one and one-half stories high, with a good 

 basement for kitchen and cellar. I have one good smoke 

 house, and one granary, but my barn and sheds are temporary. 

 I built my sheds of rough lumber, poles and straw. My cattle 

 shed is sixteen feet wide, and about eighty feet long, having its 

 north side and each end boarded up six feet high, with ridge 



