The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . of the walls and dwarf walls inthe space between the two floors should be coated withsmooth plaster. Openings should be made through thewalls into the space between the floors for veutiiation,and they should have perforated iron covers on the out-sides. This, of course, is an expensive floor, and, in myopinion, not nearly so good, if prejudice could be over-come, as when the upper floor is constructed ofsmoothly polished flags, carefully jointed. In tlie leastexpensive way these may be laid on sharp brokenstones, but in the better, though mor
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . of the walls and dwarf walls inthe space between the two floors should be coated withsmooth plaster. Openings should be made through thewalls into the space between the floors for veutiiation,and they should have perforated iron covers on the out-sides. This, of course, is an expensive floor, and, in myopinion, not nearly so good, if prejudice could be over-come, as when the upper floor is constructed ofsmoothly polished flags, carefully jointed. In tlie leastexpensive way these may be laid on sharp brokenstones, but in the better, though more costly manner,they should be supported on dwarf walls, with the in-terspaces filled in with such stones. This latter methodrequires the flags to be of regular sizes, while in theformer method this regularity of size is not required. The other pait of the barn, where it is necessary toguard against vermin lodging, is the wall-head. Toprevent this, the wall-heads should all be beam-filled, asit is technically termed, and the division-walls carried. up until they come in contact with the slate , in the case of a roof, is merely continuingthe inside part of the wall until it meets the slatebearding, in place of levelling it at the wall-head, orpoint where tlie wall-plate of the roof rests. The interiorof the walls of these barns should be smoothly plasleredand finished at the floor, with a deep skirting of plastering should be continued down underneath theskirting. The windows of the dressing and corn-barnsshould be made as represented in thefoUowing figures:—Fig. c. Fig. .5. ? L 1 J Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is an horizontal section through the lower part ofthe window ; fig. 5 is an elevation ; and fig. ti a verticalsection. It will be seen that the upper part of thewhidow is glazed, while ihe lower part is formed of twoframes of wood, with correspondiug openings. Theouter frame is fixed, but tha inner frame is made toslide, so that its openings may be oppos
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