CHAPTER V 

 Buildings 



First, I will give you a list of the lumber that goes 

 in such a house : 



Three chestnut planks, 2 by 8 by 20 feet long. 



Thirty-three boards, i by 8 by 16 feet long, tongue and 

 groove. 



Thirty-three boards, i by 8 by 14 feet long, tongue and 

 groove. 



Twelve hemlock, 2 by 4 by 20 feet long. 



Four 2 by 3-10 feet long, for roosts. 



Three windows, 8 by 10 glass, six panes each. 



This house is ten feet wide, twenty feet long, four 

 feet high at eaves, with a double pitch roof, made of 

 tongue and groove boards, so that paper of any kind 

 is not required. A roof of this kind will never leak, of 

 any account, if put up with lumber well dried out. 



Cypress is the best of all lumber for these houses, as 

 it will stand the weather — far better than any other kind, 

 and it will last for many years without decaying. White 

 pine is the next best, and the only other kind of lumber 

 that can be used where no lining paper or roofing paper 

 is used. Second quality lumber will answer every pur- 

 pose if you use judgment in cutting it and putting it on, 

 but you must have your lumber good and dry, then it 

 will not shrink apart of any account. 



Use the best lumber on north side and en^ls of house. 

 I will show a cut of this house. A view of the frame 

 will aid you ver}- much in building your first house. 



