2S 



TJTF FAJflM. 



Cover this frame with cnll or common lumber, laying the boards on up 

 and down. Next put on a heavy layer of marsh hay or straw to keep the 

 dirt from coming in contact with and rotting the lumber; over this put a 

 foot of earth. A shute should be provided for filling the house, and a small 

 rentilation flue for winter. The end where the door is located should be 



double boarded imd filled in between with saw-dust or cut straw; there 

 slumld also bo a double door. A stf)ring house of this kind, if well made, 

 H'ill last eight or ten years, and give as good satisfactiou as one costing |20(). 



IIo^v nil oirt Itavn -^viis Imi)rovoil. — "We present herewith » brief dot 

 Bcrii)tion of how an old barn avhs remodeled and greatly imprvAcrt without 

 much expetme, and furnish illustrations showing the baru after the cbaugea 



