The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner .. . er. These are usually the property of anyhouseholder. The materials used are: 200 feet of 8-foot fencing, ?t ^ $ 3 48 200 feet of lo-foot flooring (2d quality), J16 2 96 4 ten-foot boards, 12 inches wide, at Jji8 72 3 two-by-four scantling, 10 feet long 21 2 bundles lath 30 2 second-hand sashes i 00 20 pounds tar paper, at 3c 60 1 pair half-strap hinges 15 Nails, etc., and paint 5^ Total |io 00 The fencing comes 6 inches wide, and the flooring about thesame width. No posts are use
The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner .. . er. These are usually the property of anyhouseholder. The materials used are: 200 feet of 8-foot fencing, ?t ^ $ 3 48 200 feet of lo-foot flooring (2d quality), J16 2 96 4 ten-foot boards, 12 inches wide, at Jji8 72 3 two-by-four scantling, 10 feet long 21 2 bundles lath 30 2 second-hand sashes i 00 20 pounds tar paper, at 3c 60 1 pair half-strap hinges 15 Nails, etc., and paint 5^ Total |io 00 The fencing comes 6 inches wide, and the flooring about thesame width. No posts are used in this plan, and the house isnone the less strong. To construct it, first saw twenty of thefencing boards to 6 feet long for the back of the house, and sawthe waste ends of these to 2 feet long. Rip one of the 12 inchboards into two 6 inch boards, one of which is for the base of the 623 THE PRACTICAL STOCK DOCTOR back of house, and the other is to be again ripped into two 3 inchstrips, upon which nail the 2 feet fencing pieces, leaving twopieces loose near each end of the doors. This forms the base of. the front. The base of the whole house can now be nailed to-gether, using two of the wide boards for the sides. The front base slants outward (see Fig. i). The frame isthen constructed by erecting a long fencing board at three feetfrom the front end of each side base and a shorter one at rearend of each, as Fig. i, which shows these boards trimmed to fit -i-J Hg. 2 Ui. der the roof. These two sets of uprights are then connectedby scantling for the roof; under the ends of these scantling fenc-ing boards are nailed, which hold the third scantling in place tosupport the center of the roof. The top of the longest board is DISEASES OF 623 then connected with the front base by a fencing board, and twoboards nailed across the front to support the sash. The wholeframe is then complete. Figs. I and 2 show the full details of the frame. The boardsfor back, sides and roof can th
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