. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 14 THE FAtiM. be allowed to insist upon this in vain. Varnishing wood will make the paint last longer, and saves incalculable elbow grease in house-cleaning. Shingles of cedar will last from thirty to forty years, and those of pine from twelve to twenty years. In the arrangement of out-buildings, the following relative proximity will be found convenient: First, the house; attached to that the kitchen-wing, with wood-house appended; then, at a little distance, the pi'ivy, carriage- house, and workshop, with pig-sty and poultry-h
. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 14 THE FAtiM. be allowed to insist upon this in vain. Varnishing wood will make the paint last longer, and saves incalculable elbow grease in house-cleaning. Shingles of cedar will last from thirty to forty years, and those of pine from twelve to twenty years. In the arrangement of out-buildings, the following relative proximity will be found convenient: First, the house; attached to that the kitchen-wing, with wood-house appended; then, at a little distance, the pi'ivy, carriage- house, and workshop, with pig-sty and poultry-hoiise adjoined. Stone and bi-ick walls should always be furred off, leaving an air space between the stonework and plastering throughout the entire wall, and open-. LOBBY L 1 PORCH ^ VING ROOM 1 ^ 1 1 1 J AN OENAMENTAL COTTNTKY COTTAGE.—GllOUND PLAN ing into the attic. This prevents dampness, and insures an equable tem- perature. Brick houses must have a slate, sheet-copper, or tarred paper cut-off inserted in the foundation just beloAv the water-shed, as otherwise the moisture of the ground is M'orked up by the brick, keeping the Avails con- stantly damp. Frame houses may be made much warmer and more comfortable than tfhey usiially are by covering the studding with tongued and grooved sheathing, and this in turn by tarred building paper, placing the weather boarding over the whole. Fit the sheathing and weather boarding closely around door and window-frames, and let the tarred paper lap over a little where there is likelv to be a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lupton, F. M. (Frank M. ), 1854-1910. Springfield, Mass. , The Phelps publishing co.
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