198 THE farmers' handbook. 



The accompanying plans are those which have been used quite recently in 

 the erection of buildings on various Departmental farms. They ha\e 

 been selected out of a good many that have been prepared from time to time 

 as being those most likely to be suitable to farmers' requirements — or at 

 least those likely to be most suggestive to farmers who wish to erect some- 

 thing of this kind. 



The specifications which accompany several of these plans are sufficiently 

 explanatory. The plans comprise the designs for erection of the following 

 buildings : — 



(1) Combined stables and implement shed (as erected at Griffith Viti- 



cultural Nursery) — six stalls. 



(2) Combined stables and implement shed (as erected at Glenfield 



Veterinary Station) — four stalls. 



(3) Combined stables and implement shed (as erected at Trangie Experi- 



ment Farm) — 30 stalls. 



(4) Implement shed only (as erected at Wagga Experiment Farm). 



(5) Hay and corn shed (as erected at Glenfield Veterinary Station). 



(6) Shearing shed (as erected at 'femora Experiment Farm) — three 



.stands. 



(7) Sheep yards and dip (as erected at North Bangaroo Stud Farm). 



(8) Cow-bails for hand milking — six bails. 



(9) The lay-out of a dairy farm. 



A Six stalled Stable and Implement Shed. (Fig. 6.) 



The speci6cations connected with the plan of a six-stalled stable and 

 implement shed erected by the Department at Griffith Viticultural Nursery 

 were as follows : — 



Materials. — All timbers unless otherwise specified to be of Cypress pine. 



Roof. — Construct pitched gable and roof as shown, rafters to be either 4 inches round 

 timber, or 5 inch x 2 inch sawn with similar collar ties to each pair, and projecting 

 rafters at gables, notched and projecting over top wall plates, and splayed to 6 inch x 

 1J inch ridge board. Brace with 3 inch x 1| inch battens, two to each end, well 

 spliced to underside of rafters, ridge and wall plates. Batten for iron with 3 inch x 

 1£ inch, spaced not more than 30 inch centre. Rafters spaced as indicated on plan. 

 Collar ties to he scarfed and bolted to rafters with §-inch bolts. Tie beams where indicated 

 to be 6 inches round or 6 inch x 3 inch sawn, set into, and bolted to post heads as 

 indicated on drawing. Over each fix strutts of 4 inches and 3 inches to collar, tie and 

 rafters, and spike to same. 



Walls. — Scarf out top of posts and secure with i-inch cup head bolts and nuts, one to 

 each post, 6 inch x 3 inch top plates to outer walls of stalln and implement shed. To 

 gable and back wall of implement shed, fix to posts as indicated 4 inch x 3 inch rails, and 

 cover same with vertical slabs, 8 inch x 1^ inch, close jointed and double spiked to rails. 

 Walls of harness and food rooms to be constructed with 4 inch x 2 inch common studs 

 spaced at 18 inch centres, set § inch deep into 4 inch x 4 inch bottom and 4 inch x 

 2 inch top plates, 4 inch x 4 inch corner studs, braced at angles with 3 inch x H inch 

 battens, halved and sunk flush in outer face, and covered with 6 inch x 1 inch rusticated 

 weatherboards finishing against 3 inch x 1^ inch batten fillets, on corner studs and f inch 

 wrought and beaded stops to doors and windows. 



Trim for doors and windows as required. Fill in gables of roof with 4 inch x 2 inch 

 studs spaced as before specified for walls, and cover with weatherboards cut close to 

 underside of iron, and lapping over top ends of slabs. 



Partition between two rooms to be covered with weatherboards on harness-room side 

 up to top plate. In two rooms, weatherboards between feet of rafters to be cut to fit 

 close to iron. 



