. Barn plans and outbuildings . more. A door should be providedupon the exposed side or end. This door may be largeenough to enter without stooping. Or it may be simply amanhole, which is better than a regular door, so far asprotection from frost is concerned, but not so convenientfor putting in and taking out roots. Sometimes, when 344 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS the bank Is a stiff clay, such houses are built without constructing any side walls, the roof resting directly on theclay. A cross-section of such a root cellar is shown inFigure 33Y. In such cases, the facing, or front, of thecellar
. Barn plans and outbuildings . more. A door should be providedupon the exposed side or end. This door may be largeenough to enter without stooping. Or it may be simply amanhole, which is better than a regular door, so far asprotection from frost is concerned, but not so convenientfor putting in and taking out roots. Sometimes, when 344 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS the bank Is a stiff clay, such houses are built without constructing any side walls, the roof resting directly on theclay. A cross-section of such a root cellar is shown inFigure 33Y. In such cases, the facing, or front, of thecellar may be built np with planks, logs or stones, ascircumstances determine. In Figure 338 a facing of stoneis shown. This is a large cellar provided with a widedoor; it has also a window on each side. Two tightfences, of stakes and planks, two feet apart, with earthfilled in between, or of logs, or stout rails used in thesame manner, make a cheaper front, and is a better pro-tection against cold than stone. If there is no hillside. Fig. 338—STONE FACING OF HILLSIDE CELLAR convenient, a knoll or other dry place should be selected,and the soil removed over a space a trifle larger than theground plan of the house, and to the depth of two feet ormore, provided there is no danger that the bottom willbe wet. In the construction of the house, select poles orlogs of two sizes, the larger ones being shortest; theseare for the inside pen, as it is subjected to greater ends of the logs are cut flat, so that they will fitdown closely together, and make a pen that is nearlytight. At least two logs in each layer of the inner penshould be cut long enough to pass through and fit intothe outer pen, to serve to fasten the two walls together—? SMALL ROOT HOUSES 345 the space between the two being two feet on each 339 shows the excavation, and beginning of theroot house walls, with the method of locking themtogether. The doorway is built up by having short logs,
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