X^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Buffalo 
windows. The windows are needed for 
light and for cooling and airing the house 
in Fall. Rut windows should not oe 
large, and should have tight, double paper- 
centered shutters both outside and inside, 
most wanted, and in my experience, fruit 
does not keep well where heating is em¬ 
ployed. The rat problem should be looked 
after. They must be kept out of the filled 
spaces and out <'f the rest of the building 
Afc2tched boards 
Shavings 
\ Shayinys 
Sha-syz n ys 
Sh a vingts 
Afatched Soards 
Shingles 
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stud 
6x2 
Walls and Insulation of Storage House 
with air space each side of the glass. Try 
to make the doors tight with packing, and 
have double dooi^ with space between. 
If the house is well made, heating should 
not be needed. It is not very practicable 
t(> run iin oil stove at night, when it is 
as well. T'se fine wire netting around the 
bottom of the filled sitaces. If there is no 
cellar the netting should be placed be¬ 
neath the whole of the first floor. They 
are not likely to dig into the cellar if the 
stones are well cemented between. Make 
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a driveway outside of earth or planks to 
the level of the first floor. A trap door 
with plank (cle.ated » stairway leads from 
first floor to cellar, but some would per¬ 
haps make a bulkhead entrance to the 
celliir from outside. c. is. F. 
Trouble With Iron Roofing 
Two yeiirs ago I built a barn .oOxdO, 
three stories, and put on what I sup¬ 
posed as good a roof as I could, galvanized 
iron Y-crimp, and stick sawed to fit the V. 
Rarn stands ends east r.nd west, gambrel 
roof and roof very steep. Roofing is two 
feet wide, so I put the rafters two feet 
apart, so the V and stick comes over e.acli 
rafter. I got twelvepenny galvanized 
nails and each nail goes inte these rafters, 
thinking it would hold it vo’. solid. On 
the south side, where the sun g s a good 
chance at it, it bothers about leaking. 
The north side, where sun does not strike 
it so hot is all right. The south side has 
pulled nails out of rafters so they stick 
up an inch, and when the sun is very hot 
yon can see light the whole length of a 
piece of the roofing whei-e it pulls apart 
in these V-crimps. The .sun contracts and 
expands this iron roofing. Will it help 
this trouble to paint thi.s south side two 
or three cnats, and is there anybody who 
can enlighten me in this matter? 
Sus(|uehauna, Pa. o. E. R. 
“Guess I’ll get out the old 
Oil Heater” 
T he old one is still good—if it’s a 
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Pleater. 
For the price of a scuttle-full of coal 
you can buy about two gallons of 
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STANDARD DILC0.9!N.Y. 
Burned in a Perfection Smoke¬ 
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lons give you heat enough to 
warm any ordinary room for, 
20 hours. No coal to carry 
or ashes to clean out. 
Burn kerosene, and cut the high 
cost of heating. SOCONY is the 
Standard Oil Company of New 
York’s best grade of refined oil. 
Say SOCONY to the grocer’s boy. 
Look for the SOCONY Sign at 
your dealer’s. 
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(Principal Offices) 
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Frost-proof Storage Houses 
Will you tell me how to construct a 
frost-proof buil'.'ing above ground I 
wi.sh to have the plate above the coiling to 
make room on second flooi'. I want to 
store apples, potatoes, grapes, etc. I 
could burn a little oil when we have a 
low temperature. s. s. F. 
New Hampshire. 
This house is like the so-called Ver¬ 
mont apple storage house, but has what 
he.re are considered distinct improve¬ 
ments. giving greater protection at lower 
cost. One of the drawings gives tlie 
frame construction and another the wall.s 
.and insulation, the building to be of any 
size required. Tbo cellar, as perhaps 
your question hints, may be left, but will 
help keep even conditions of moisture and 
heat, and is good for storage of roots, 
etc., while the earth taken out and 
banked against the sides will help keep 
out frost. The cellar is seven feet, with 
four feet below surface and three above. 
The foundation walls are stone and 
cement mortar, two feet thick and the 
part above the surface banked. Sills are 
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Frame Construction of Storage House 
lieddod in cement concr''te. Floor stiul- 
dings. Ux4, with double floors of matched 
boards with heavy i)aper between. A 
ventilating shaft of ll-in. second-grade, 
glazed sewer tile with openings in each 
storeroom, extends from cellar to peak, 
with shut-olTs. The framing studs tire 
2x0. Outside of studding comes, first, 
jiairer (not tarred paper, which gives off 
odor), second, matched boards, third, 
hciivy paper, fourtli, shingles or <-lap- 
boaids. The 0-in. wide studs give it 0-ln. 
space all around which is divided by 
stout, heavy asphalt centre (not tar) 
paper into spaces two inches and four 
inches wide. These two spaces are filled 
witli dry planer .shavings, such as arc 
baled and .sold for bedding. The parti¬ 
tion paper is fastened by roofing nails to 
1x2 inch furring piece.s on the studs. 
The shavings must be dry and must be 
packed carefully and i)retty tight, about 
nine ]iouuds to the solid foot. Do not 
allow the cari)enter to build instead the 
Exterior of Storage House 
so-called dead air spaces, .which are any¬ 
thing but dead. The filler of shavings is 
very much better than plain air spaces. 
It is really a very large number of spaces 
of air confined among the shavings. Hay 
has been used, but is not durable. Saw¬ 
dust is usually green or damp, and will 
settle and decay. The shavings if put in 
dry will last a very long time. Use care 
in filling not to tear the paper linings of 
the spaces and the paper partition be¬ 
tween. Good material and careful, fairly 
tight filling of the spaces is one of the 
main points. A lath and plaster parti¬ 
tion in the space would be more substan¬ 
tial and better, but costs more than 
paper. Inside the studding is, first, stout 
l>aper lining, second, matched boards. In 
lioarding both sides of the spaces be care¬ 
ful not to make holes and rents in the 
paper, but if any are made, repair them. 
The drawing shows same construction 
extended to the roof, which is necessary if 
the loft is wanted for storage. Otherwise 
the roof may be of ordinary construction, 
and the loft stuffed with hay for protec¬ 
tion. In such a house much of the leak¬ 
age of heat will be around the doors and 
