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On Agricultural Buildings. 



centres. The sarking will be | of an inch thick, laid close joint, 

 and securely nailed. The sarking over barn and granary will be 

 half-checked, and the whole will be provided with the necessary 

 ridge-pean and valley-pieces. 



The whole of the projecting couples and sarking on the 

 under side of farm-house and steading shall be clean dressed, 

 and to have, along with the finials, three coats of the best oil 

 paint. 



The whole of the joisting and roofing shall be laid on wall- 

 plates, 6 J inches by 1| inches. 



The joisting over steading will be 7 inches by 2^ inches, having 

 a beam in the centre, into which the traviss posts will be inserted. 



The joists of granary will be 9 inches by 2 J inches, placed 

 18 inches from centres, having also beams laid along the centre 

 and cross heads, 6^ inches square. The barn joisting will be 

 10 inches by 2J inches ; and the beams for machinery will be 

 13 inches by 7 inches, and placed as shall be directed. 



The floors of granary, stable-lofts. Sic, will be laid with white 

 wood drawn batons, clean dressed ; and those of the former to 

 be finished with a 6-inch dressed skirting board. 



The sleepers and joisting of dwelling-house shall be of similar 

 sizes, placed 18 inches from centres, and all laid with white wood 

 deals, 6^ inches by If inch thick, grooved and feathered on the 

 joints, securely nailed ; and all to be cleaned off when finished, 

 and provided with the necessary hearth borders. 



The stair to granary will be formed^ as shown, with \h inch 

 wood ; the closing in of stair landing, chaff-house, and machinery, 

 will be executed with standards and dressed deal, securely fixed 

 up. A trap to be provided for access to the stable-loft. 



The traviss-posts will be 6J inches square, tennered into the 

 beam and stone ; the traviss-boarding to be 8 inches by If inch, 

 clean jointed, and douled with oak pins, and covered on the top 

 with an iron strap, If inch by tV t)f an inch. 



The mangers and hacks in stables shall be formed and fixed up 

 to the requisite sizes, and in the usual manner. 



Two corn-chests to be provided for the stable. All the re- 

 quisite runners, iron rods, harness pins, &c., shall be provided 

 for and fixed up by the contractor. 



The straw-hacks will be fitted up in ends of cattle-sheds, and 

 along the byres, framed with bottom runners, top pieces, and 

 spars of the usual dimensions. 



The whole of the doors throughout the steading will be formed 

 of 6-inch deal boarding, 1\ inch thick, and beaded on the joints, 

 all clean dressed, hung with crook and band or cross-tailed 

 hinges, or on slides and rollers, as the case may be, and provided 

 with all the necessary stock locks, snecks, and bolts, where neces- 



