28 THE FARMER'S AND 



Cutting, hewing, and hauling timber 4 days' work. 



Raising, (mostly done by neighbors) say 1 do. 



Putting on roof and gable-ends 2 do. 



Cutting out doors, windows, and place for fire-place, 



and casing doors and windows, and making doors.... 4 do. 



Laying floors and making a ladder to chamber 3 do. 



Chinking and daubing 3 do. 



Building chimney 3 do. 



In all 20 days. 



Now, the cash out will be, for ten days' work hired $5 



1000 ft. of lumber for floors, etc 10 



20 Ibs. of nails 1 



30 lights sash and glass, (1 six light for chamber) 1 87 



2 pair butts and screws, (use wooden latches) 25 



400 split clapboards for the roof. 2 50 



Total $20 62 



But we will add for contingencies, which will make even money, 4 38 



Making $25 00 



Some of the packing-boxes, in which come your things, 

 with the lid hinged with bits of leather, and some shelves 

 put in, will make some good closets for a corner of the 

 " new house " and if you have a jack-plane and augers, 

 which every emigrant should have, you can make some 

 coarse bedsteads, upon which you will sleep more soundly, 

 and a table or two, upon which you will eat with a better 

 appetite, than those do who eat from a table that costs more 

 than yours, house and all. 



We have allowed ten days after you nave fixed upon 

 your location, to build your house and move into it; but 

 it would be better to have more hands, and complete it in 

 less time. In the meantime, if not too late in the season 

 (which should not be later at any rate than the-middle o/ 

 August,) you may hire twenty acres of prairie broken u; 



