Plans of Farm Buildings. 
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Damp-proof Course. — Lay over the whole of walls above ground level a 
course of pressed blue Staffordshire bricks bedded in. and jointed with neat 
Portland cement. 
Angles. — Build all salient angles in or about the buildings with bull-nose 
bricks. 
Arches. — Turn arches in half brick rings set in cement mortar to openings 
where shown, and properly cut skew backs, &c., to same. 
Copings. — Cope all low walls- with selected hard bricks set on edge in cement, 
Window Sills. — Put to all sliding windows special made splayed bricks 9 in. 
by 4 in. by 4£ in. set in cement. 
Put to all other windows cant angled bricks set in cement on edge. 
Thresholds. — Form thresholds to doorways with pressed blue bricks set on 
edge in cement. 
Air Bricks and Flues. — Build in 9-in. by 3-in. cast-iron air bricks in walls 
where shown on drawings, and fix one for every cow in the east and west walls 
of cowshed, 6 in. above the floor level. 
Fires. — Build fireplace openings in harness room for 3-ft. 3-in. oven and 
boiler, set and fix same ; build 9-in. by 9-in. flue and parget same. Set the 
chimney head in cement mortar, using pressed blue plinth bricks as shown, and 
provide a plain red terra-cotta chimney pot, 2 ft. high, flaunched round with 
cement. 
Fix two 40-gallon furnace pans where shown and set same in brickwork, the 
top being finished with Portland cement, J in. thick, chamfered on the edges. 
Build smoke flues, and fix chimney pots as described above. 
Provide 6-in. glazed pipe bends connected to flues to coppers for steam outlets. 
Beam filling. — Beam fill over all walls in between feet of spars with brick- 
work. 
Flashings. — Point all lead flashings with cement. — 
Mangers. — Build mangers for live stock as follows : — For cattle in stalls and 
boxes with 4J-in. brickwork each side on a concrete bottom, filled in between 
with lime concrete, and having 18-in. diameter glazed stoneware channels insido 
bedded in the concrete : the ends to be formed with fine cement concrete 
rounded and finished with trowelled face in cement. 
For cattle in yards, the mangers to be similar to above, but having 15-in. 
diameter channels in continuous lengths. 
For horses, with 4 J-in. brickwork sides on half-brick arches set in cement 
mortar, supported on solid brick piers, 14 in. wide between the stalls ; fill in 
over the arches with cement concrete, and fix 1 8-in. diameter stoneware channels, 
and form rounded ends to each manger as described above. 
Swill Tanks. — Build these with 9-in. brickwork in cement mortar, cope with 
a blue half round coping set in cement, and render insides with neat Portland 
cement. 
Floors and Parings. — Under all pavings (except concreted yards) lay a bed 
of hard broken local materials, 4 in. thick, well wetted and beaten down. 
Gangways . — Pave all gangways, passages, and also form the channels up to 
walls in stables and cowsheds, with selected hard stock bricks set on edge, and 
grouted with cement grout. 
Pave at edge of trolley gangways with special made hard cant bricks set on 
edge in cement. 
Mixing , Engine , and Milk Booms.- — Pave mixing room, milk cooling room, 
engine ro>m, boiling shed, and trolley gangways with cement granite concrete 
2J in. thick, finished with floated plain face and put down in two layers, as 
follows : bottom layer 1 j in. thick composed of three parts (by measure) J-iii. to 
$-in. granite chippings, one part sand to one part best Portland cement, top 
layer 1 in. thick composed of two parts |-in. to J-in. granite chippings, half part 
sand and one part cement, the whole well mixed dry on boards, gently wetted, 
again mixed, spread and well rolled down, no part to be allowed to dry before 
being finished off. 
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