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together at splices and corners. They rest upon posts 

 of cedar or chestnut, which go into the ground about 

 two feet. A board one foot wide is nailed along lower 

 half of sill, 'extending into the ground three or four 

 inches. The plates are same as sills, and are halved 

 and nailed together at splices and corners. A sufficient 

 number of studs six feet eight inches long for the 

 front and three feet eight inches long for the back, are 

 cut from the scantlings, one for each corner of the pen 



FIG. 3 GROUND PLAN OF SCRATCHING SHED HOUSE 



and shed. These are toe-nailed onto sills, and the 

 plates spiked onto top of them. We set an interme- 

 diate stud in front of each scratching shed and two two 

 by three-inch studs in front of roosting pen set the 

 right distance apart to receive the window. At the 

 back, we use one intermediate stud of two by four- 

 inch stuff in each pen and shed. As we purpose double 

 boarding this back wall, boarding on the inside of studs 

 with matched boards, we use the two by four-inch 

 studs, and thus get the four-inch dead air space. 



Rafters are of two by four-inch scantling, notched 

 and spiked onto plates, the top end cut flush with out- 



