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Plans of Farm Buildings. 
Machinery. 
This is usually tenant’s property, and it is assumed that in this case the 
tenant would provide engine, shafting and belting, and all machinery. 
Space is provided for a 10 to 12 H.P. oil engine (as being the most suitable), 
donkey pump to the well, and a dynamo, the latter affording the best means 
of lighting the homestead. The initial outlay for an electrical installation 
would be the only cost, as the electricity could mostly be provided when the 
engine is running for other purposes. 
Poultry. 
We are strongly of opinion that poultry houses should not in any case be 
mixed up with the other buildings for live stock, fowls about the latter places 
being objectionable. 
If poultry are to be kept in large numbers they should be housed in 
portable houses distributed about the farm, as large numbers cannot be kept 
profitably in one place. 
The houses should be constructed of oreosoted wood as being cheaper and 
more suited to fowls than brick or stone buildings, and we have accordingly 
shown two houses on the block plan constructed of this material, one being for 
fowls and the other for ducks and geese, and the cost of these is included in 
the estimate ; any further houses required should be portable and be provided 
by the tenant. 
SPECIFICATION. 
General. 
(Such clauses and conditions applicable to the special circumstances of any 
case, as may be necessary, to be inserted under this heading in any working 
specification.) 
Excavator. 
Surface .— Kemove all vegetable matter from whole site, of buildings, yards, 
paved ways, and roads, and dispose of same as directed. 
Trenches tor Foundations . — Dig trenches for foundations sufficiently deep 
to secure firm and uniform foundation. When dug, to be well watered and 
rammed down. 
Drain Trenches . — Fill in and ram the earth to footings and dispose of the 
surplus as directed. 
Dig trenches for drains to a uniform fall and cut socket holes for every 
pipe in the trench, and carefully fill in and ram the earth about the pipes. 
Well .- — Dig well 5 ft. 3 in. internal diameter by 30 ft. deep, and dispose of 
earth as directed. 
Manure Pit , Tank, and Yards . — Excavate as directed to form yards, 
manure pit, and tank. 
Boads . — Form roads as shown on' plans about the buildings, with a bed of 
hard local materials 6 in. deep and a topping of finer material 2 in. deep, the 
surface to have a fall of 5 in. in 24 ft. from the buildings on every side. 
Sheds . — Level and ram the ground in cart and implement sheds. 
Bricklayer. 
Walls . — Use throughout hard burnt stock bricks from an approved local 
yard ; face the whole of the external walls with selected bricks, and point all 
exposed faces with a flat struck joint as the work proceeds. 
But to all walls three courses of footings of the several widths shown on the 
sections, and grout up all foundations from the bottom of the footings to the 
damp course. 
The mortar to be composed of clean sharp sand or boiler ashes mixed with 
an equal quantity (by measure) of freshly burnt local lime or best Portland 
cement (as the case may be). 
