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THE FAMILY HOKSE. 



wagon room. This room is furnished with a pumj) and watering 

 trough. The water suj^ply may be provided by a well or preferably 

 a cement-lined cistern, to wliich is conducted the v*^ater from the 

 roof. 



The first story is ten feet high in the clear. The higlit from the 

 ujjper floor to the apex of the roof is eighteen feet, making, with the 

 gables, a large amount of storage room for hay or other forage. The 

 cupola is eight feet square at the base, tapering to four feet at the 



Fig. 40.— SECTION AND TRAINIE PLAN. 



summit, and thirteen feet high from the apex of the roof to the top 

 of the railing. Figure 40 is a sectional view showing the frame 

 plan. The lower ten feet of the bara is covered with pine siding 

 seven-eights of an inch thick, dressed on both sides, matched 

 and rabbeted, above that is vertical siding dressed and matched. The 

 roof and cupola are shingled. The estimated cost, with first-class 

 work inside and out, is |990. A bam could be built on the same 

 general style and ground plan, without the cupola, covered with 

 vertical siding and battened, for about $500. 



