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secured  with  cement  at  the  joints.  Arch-bars  and  all  other  requisite  iron- 
work to  be  provided.  All  troughs,  cisterns,  &c.,  to  be  underbuilt  as 
required,  and  relieving  arches  to  be  turned  over  all  openings.  The  exte- 
rior windows  and  door-arches  and  quoins  to  be  constructed  with  selected 
hard-burnt  bricks,  unless  the  quality  of  the  stone  is  good,  and  not  more 
costly. 
The  floor  of  root-store  from  junction  with  boards  to  be  laid  with  hard, 
common  bricks  flat  in  mortar,  also  those  of  office,  joiner,  and  smith’s  shop, 
saddle-room,  and  gig-house ; door-sills  the  whole  thickness  of  walls  on 
edge  wedged  in  cement.  All  bond  or  bearing  timbers  to  rest  upon  bricks 
levelled  upon  the  stonework  : a 2-inch  tube  drain  from  sink  of  dairy  to 
wash  cistern. 
Mason’s  Work — (Rubble  Walling,  See.) 
All  the  walls  coloured  brown  upon  the  plans  to  be  constructed  with  local 
stone,  of  approved  quality  in  ‘ random’  courses,  with  mortar  composed  of 
fresh-burnt  stone,  lime,  and  gravel,  in  the  proportion  of  4 to  1.  Through 
stones  in  every  2 feet  6 inches  superficial,  the  whole  well  tailed  and  bonded 
together,  and  the  courses  flushed  up  with  grout  and  gravel.  All  footings 
up  to  the  ground  level  of  one-story  walls  to  be  22  inches  thick,  two-story 
26  inches,  laid  upon  large  flat  stones  ; those  to  engine-flue  and  piers  to  be 
solidly  built  and  grouted  6 inches  larger  each  way,  and  the  brickwork 
commenced  upon  large  flat  stones.  The  walls  enclosing  machinery,  which 
are  2 inches  thicker  than  others,  to  have  an  extra  number  of  through 
stones,  and  to  be  of  a superior  quality  of  random  work. 
All  wood  story-posts,  or  supports  to 
roof  timbers,  to  rest  upon  a stone  slab 
not  less  than  C inches  thick,  fixed  firm 
and  level  upon  the  footings,  roughly 
axed  and  levelled,  and  sunk  to  receive 
foot  of  post : the  double  ones  of  cow- 
boxes  to  be  in  one  length.  Hook-stones 
with  strong  hooks  sunk  and  leaded  in, 
to  be  fixed  to  all  the  doors  opening  externally,  except  those  hung  to  posts. 
A 2^-inch  coping  to  be  placed  upon  the  brick  piers  of  lean-to  sheds, 
roughly  axed,  and  projecting  1 inch  all  round. 
The  dairy  floor  to  be  laid  with  2-inch  York  tooled  flags,  laid  in  mortar, 
and  a G-inch  tooled  and  bevelled  sink  stone  provided  and  fixed.  Covers 
of  stone  to  each  man-hole,  with  iron  rings  securely  fixed  and  headed. 
All  external  walls  to  have  neat  tuck-pointing  with  coloured  mortar,  in- 
ternally laid  flat  and  white. 
Carpenter  and  Joiner, 
Construct  roofs  and  supports  as  follows : — 
Cattle  Boxes  (see  Section). 
No.  10  pair  of  Principals,  with — 
{Tie  Beams,  or  Collars  5X4  Brestsummers,orPlates  0x4 
Principal  Rafters  .6x4  Eaves’  Spar  . . .3x2 
Purlins  . . . .7x4  Ridge  . . . . 7 x V. 
Struts  . . . .3x3 
Wrought  Iron  Straps  and  Bolts. 
Of  Larch _ . . Common  Rafters 31  x 2 
Of  Axed  Ullm  . Story  Posts  . . ‘ 6x6 
The  divisions  in  these  boxes  to  be  formed  with  split  rails  of  larch  or  ash 
fixed  into  the  story-posts,  three  in  height  as  shown  ; the  two  upper  rails 
