. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 24 TUE APPEARANCE AFTER COMPLETION. Hanging Bai'n Doors on Rollers.—The great convenience of sliding or rolling doors on the farm oiitbuildings is well known, and as every farmer with a little ingenuity can construct them himself, there is no reason why they should not be generally adopted. Our illustration. Fig. 1, repre- sents the shding doors, completed, as applied to the barn; Fig. 2, the man- ner of applying the rollers to the doors and track. The rollers, track and other trimmings may be obtained at any hardware st
. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 24 TUE APPEARANCE AFTER COMPLETION. Hanging Bai'n Doors on Rollers.—The great convenience of sliding or rolling doors on the farm oiitbuildings is well known, and as every farmer with a little ingenuity can construct them himself, there is no reason why they should not be generally adopted. Our illustration. Fig. 1, repre- sents the shding doors, completed, as applied to the barn; Fig. 2, the man- ner of applying the rollers to the doors and track. The rollers, track and other trimmings may be obtained at any hardware store. The track is first securely fastened to the edge of an inch or two-inch board, about four or five inches wide. This is then firmly nailed or spiked to the building, parallel to and even with the top of the doorway, and should extend the width of the door on each side. In order that the doors may run easily, the track should be laid as level as possible, and upon one board. The manner of fastening the rollers of the doors is clearly shown in the engraving Fig. 2. The doors are placed upon the tracks at the ends of the latter, and are prevented from running ofl" by placing a block at the end of the track or upon the side of the door. The track should be pro- tected from the weather by some kind of covering. Two narrow boards nailed together similar to an eaves-trough, and fastened to the building above the track and rollers, form the best kind of protection from snow or rain. Motlel Carriage-House and Stable.^Our engraving of the elevation, on the following page, shows doors of the rectangular, car- riage-house portion of the building; also door to hay- loft. The carriage-house doors are folding, and open outward, as they can be made closer when hung on hinges than when hung on rollers; and as it is desirable that all doors and windows should be as close as practicable, that they may not affect the ventilation, the ingress of which is provided for by a subterraneous a
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