200 THE farmers' handbook. 



Stables lor Thirty Horses. (Figs. 8 and 9.) 



The plan given in this ease is likely to be of use on a large farm which 

 employs a number of teams. It is the plan actually adopted for Trangie 

 Experiment Farm, being erected while the present Chief Inspector of 

 Agriculture, Mr. A. H. E. McDonald, was manager there, and it has proved 

 a most satisfactory building to work. The specifications follow : — 



Timber. — Cypress pine will be used throughout for all framing, and Oregon and Colonial 

 pine will be used for doors, shutters, linings, &c. Round posts are to be trimmed as may 

 be directed and careful!}' selected for their respective positions. All exposed eorners of 

 timbers throughout the whole building to be neatly arrised off before fixing. 



Floor Levels. — The finished level of all floors (except silo) to be 4 inches above the 

 highest point of the site, and the tilling in must extend to a line 5 feet beyond the 

 building all round. 



Fouwlatiom — Under walls of chaff silo, grain bin, and harness room set round blocks 

 2 feet into the ground, and to the height shown on section to take 5-inch x 4-inch 

 bottom plates, set on edge and spiked to blocks. All posts to be set into the ground to 

 the depths shown, those where so indicated to be fitted with sole plates of 6 inch x 3 

 inch strutted with 4 inch x 2^ inch, set solid on ground. 



Walls.— Where so indicated on plan, outer walls of stable and implement shed to be 

 closed in with 8-inch x 1^-incb sawn slabs, fixed to top rail 6-inch x 2^-inch, and 

 two others of 4 inch x 2^ inch, the bottom ends to be cut to a line on finished floor 

 level. Note, the rails to be supported up to a straight line while slabs are being nailed 

 on. 



All slabs are to be closely jointed together, and scribed to round posts wherever 

 necessary. 



Silo grain bin and harness room walls to be of 5-inch x 2i-inch studding and top 

 plates, with 5-inch x 5-inch corner studs, framed up as indicated on drawing, braced 

 with 3-inch x 2-inch halved and sunk flush in outer face, trimmed for doors, &c, as 

 required, and covered with rusticated weatherboard, nailed close together, and finishing 

 against 3-inch x l$-inch angle stops wrot for painting. All studding to be at 18-inch 

 centres, the ends tenoned through and housed f-inch deep into plates, and securely 

 spiked through plates. 



Continue gable of harness room up to roof iron with 4-inch x 2-inch studding and 

 cover with weatherboards as specified for walls. 



On foundation blocks under harness room floor, fix part sheets of galvanised iron set 

 into the soil to retain filling in, and punch ventilation holes in as will be directed. 



For break in floor level from silo to harness room, trim off face of blocks to line with 

 wall studs, and set 5-inch x 4-inch bottom plate in between to carry harness room 

 joists, filling in short studding between the plates as required. 



Under top plates where indicated, set in struts, scarfed and bolted or housed in and 

 spiked to plates and posts as shown on plans. 



Stall Divisions. — Construct as shown on plans, with two 4-inch x 2^-inch rails, both 

 ends set into the posts not less than 3 inches deep, the top rail flat rounded off on top 

 edge, and coiners neatly arrised off. 



Tops of alternate heel and head posts to be neatly pointed off as indicated finished for 

 painting. To head posts where shown scarf into and spike to posts 6-inch x 2|-inch 

 head rail as shown on detail of mangers. 



Manger*. — These to be continuous of plain galvanised iron, curved as shown, and 

 fixed at edges between 5-inch x 2^-inch rails, with capping, and division fillets as 

 indicated on detail. Divisions to each to be of 1-inch Colonial pine boards, cut to shape 

 and fixed under each lower dividing rail, the manger iron to be secured to same with 

 cone-headed screws. To each manger fix head stall ring and bolt 



Harness Fittings. — To each stall, make and fix as will be directed, two collar pegs of 

 4-inch x 1^-inch hardwood firmly set into rail over head posts, or to heel posts as may 

 be directed. In harness room fit up twelve similar pegs, also ten cart saddle brackets, 

 made of 4-inch x 2-inch frame and 4-inch x J-inch cover boards, all wrot and neatly 

 finished. 



Roof. — Construct the roofs as shown on plans. To stables (main roof) and implement 

 shed, put 5-inch x 2^-inch rafters at 2-feet 10-inch centres with 4-inch x 2-inch and 

 4-inch by 2^-inch collar ties respectively scarfed and bolted with g-inch bolt nut and 



