AROUXl) THE FARM. 



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SMOXB HousB. — na. 



not in nse for smoking meat, is an excellent receptacle for ashes, whick 

 ought never to be kept in 

 contact with wood, on ac- 

 cotmt of the danger from 

 spontaneous combustion. 



Our next illustration. Fig. 

 2, representB one of the best 

 arranged smoke houses that 

 we have ever seen. It 

 waa large and built of brick, 

 with an iron door which is 

 generally kept locked: In 

 the gable end there \a a fire- 

 place with a door. "A" 

 shows the fireplace with 

 door, for making the smoke, 

 a chimney leading up on the 

 inside of the wall letting the 

 smoke into the room. The 

 advantage of this arrange- 

 ment is that the tiro for 

 smoking is built without en- 

 tering the building, and sim- 

 ply by opening the door of 

 the fireplace. The smoke passing up the chimney on the interior aide of the 



wall is cooled, and thus the 

 meat does not come in con- 

 tact with heat from fire. In 

 the ordinary smoke-house, 

 as is well known, the pieces 

 of meat ofterf break loose 

 fix)m their fastenings and 

 fall into the fire or ashes 

 underneath, and are in- 

 jured or destroyed. In this 

 plan the ash room may be 

 partitioned off and the meat 

 kept in a room by itself, 

 and the door being always 

 kept locked, except at snch 

 times as the meat is de- 

 sired for the table, there \» 

 no chance of loss from 

 thieves or flies. One can 

 keep meat in this house in 

 perfect condition frt>m one 

 end of the year to the other, 

 and no losses can accrue 

 from any source. 

 SKOKE HOUSE. — Fio. 3. For those who want a 



cheap, easily made smoke 

 house, our illustration, Fig. 3, will meet the recpiirement. It is made in a 

 sUght rise of ground, by an archway of brick, at the lower end of which the 



