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Floors. — Floors of two rooms to be of 5 inch x 2 inch joists, spiked to 5 inch x 4 

 inch centre bearer and bottom plates, spaced as indicated, and covered with 4 inch x 

 1 inch tongued and grooved flooring, cut bo lit rinse around studs and up to weather 

 boards, double nailed, punched, and flushed off at the joints. 



Stalls. -Construct stalls with 10-inch diameter head and heel posts, trimmed on top as 

 shown, 4 inch \ 2.1 inch hardwood sawn rails, set into posts, the lower rail to run 

 through to carry manger as shown. Provide continuous 6 inch x 2 inch name-plate 

 on outside of head-posts. Construct mangers ^continuous) with 4 inch x 3 inch 

 rails x 1 inch wrought capping, 4 inch x 2 inch stays, outer rail to be bolted to 

 lower division rails with A-iueh holts as shown. 



Provide to each manger 1-inch division board of colonial pine, sliding-in fillets, as 

 indicated in detail. 



Provide to each stall 3 inch x 2 inch hardwood slip-rail, notched into posts as 

 indicated on section AA. 



Mangers to be of 24-guage plain galvanised iron, fixed between rails with cone-headed 

 galvanised screws. 



llano sa Fittings. — Provide and fix approved harness pegs, one to each stall, and 

 six in each harness room of f-inch galvanised pipe 15 inches long, fixed as directed ; also 

 three saddle racks of 4 inch x 2 inch, with 4 inch x f. inch top board, well secured 

 to wall studs in harness room. 



Doors. — Provide and swing to studs (4) ledged and braced doors, 6 feet 8 inches x 2 

 feet 8 inches x 1 inch, made of 6 inch x I inch ledges, 4 in<di x 1 inch braces and 

 4 inch x I inch tongued and grooved and V -jointed Dorrigo pine, wrought both sides, 

 hinged with 14-inch japanned T hinges and secured with approved 6-inch rim lock and 

 M.E. brass furniture. 



Fit to each opening j'-inch beaded stops of the required widths. Put noosed sills to 

 each of 6 inches x 3 inches. 



Windows. — Between studs, and over 2£-inch sloping sills, fit in 2 pairs of 5 feet \\ 

 inch x 2 feet 10 inch x 1^ inch light pine sashes, glazed with 21 oz. glass, and fitted 

 with sash prop and fastener of approved pattern, stops to be fitted as for doors. 



Pldmber. 



Cover the whole of the roof with 26-gauge galvanised corrugated iron, secured to 

 battens with 1 f-inch galvanised screws and lead washers as may be directed, sheets to 

 have 1£ laps at sides and 6 inches at ends. Finish at gables with neat 2-inch rolls. 



To eaves, provide and fix 5-inch quarter round guttering, 24-gauge, secured with stout 

 galvanised brackets and top straps (one to each rafter), and lapped, riveted, and 

 soldered on both sides at all joints. Provide and fix 2 stacks of 3-inch down-pipe, 

 secured with straps, and fitted with proper shoes to deliver on the ground. 



Cover ridge with 16 inch 26-gauge ridge capping, secured with screws to every fourth 

 corrugation, and box in ends at gable. 



Painter. 



With best white lead and linseed oil paint in colours as will be directed (paint three 

 coats) the whole of the external face of gable weatherboards and rafters, and one side 

 and two ends of harness and feed rooms, also both sides of doors and windows. Paint 

 in three coats with red oxide in oil the slabs on gable wall and the weatherboards on 

 the stall and shed side of two rooms. 



The implement shed in this plan could, with convenience, be increased in 

 width so as to take a double row of implements. 



A Four-stalled Stable and Implement Shed. (Fig. 7.) 



The structure in this case is of a different type, being in the shape of an 

 _ with the chaff silo at the angle, instead of the whole being under one roof 

 as in the foregoing plan. Only four horse stalls are provided for, but this 

 could be increased as desired. 



Any specifications in this case would be so similar to those for the previous 

 plan that it is considered unnecessary to give them here. 



