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ever; they simply take the place of the siding and paint. 

 Where the house is simply sheeted outside with common 

 boards and veneered with brick, and then lathed and 

 plastered inside, the building will be very cold because the 

 wind will go easily through tlie brick and the cracks in the 

 sheeting. 



428. All Wood Walls. For the construction of dwelling 

 houses, cheese curing rooms above ground and ice houses 

 there is no type of wall so effective and so cheap in first 

 cost as the all wood wall where good building paper is used 

 with the lumber. For a dwelling house a reasonably warm 

 wall is secured when the studding are sheeted outside and 

 in with one layer of tongued and grooved fencing, covered 

 outside with 2-ply acid and waterproof paper and lathed 

 and plastered inside. The inside sheeting is warmer than 

 back plastering and better because it gives a more solid 

 wall, and lath may be used on it for furring. 



LIGHTING FARM BUILDINGS. 



The lighting of farm buildings is required to secure 

 three important objects: (1) facility in doing work; (2) 

 needs of the animals housed, and (3) healthful conditions. 



In the dwelling house much care should be exercised to 

 secure an ample amount of light in the kitchen, in the 

 dining room and especially in the main living rooms. An 

 abundance of light is needed in the kitchen not only to 

 facilitate the work but to make the best intentions and 

 efforts toward cleanliness more certain. It requires an 

 effort to be gloomy and feel ugly in the face of a hearty 

 laugh, and a bright cheerful room has much the same effect 

 upon those who occupy it. 



429. Efficiency of Windows. There are many conditions 

 which affect the efficiency of windows in lighting a build- 



