. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . concrete. Ventilation is secured by leaving a small apertureIn the peak of the roof, protected by a hood or cap, as an underground house be preferred, the plan of build-ing can be the same ; or a less expensive method may be u? side-hill having a northern exposure affords a desirablelocation. In such ease one end of the house is usually aboveground. The boards can be of the cheapest description, andthe space or air-chamber filled in with straw ; the groundforming the support to
. The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. . concrete. Ventilation is secured by leaving a small apertureIn the peak of the roof, protected by a hood or cap, as an underground house be preferred, the plan of build-ing can be the same ; or a less expensive method may be u? side-hill having a northern exposure affords a desirablelocation. In such ease one end of the house is usually aboveground. The boards can be of the cheapest description, andthe space or air-chamber filled in with straw ; the groundforming the support to the whole. No less attention shouldbe paid to draining than in the other case ; and when in use,the space between the ice and the peak of the roof should befilled with straw. 150 The House. APIAET. Fig. 114 represents a design for a rustic ainary or bee-hoase,which strikes us as being far more beautiful and appropriatethan the elaborately ornamented temple oi- palace-like struc-tures we sometimes see ^ h^ mode of its construction is readily Fig. Peespective Vi£W. seen. It may, of course, be made of any desirable size on thesame plan. [Foi- directions in reference to the construction ofhives, the best site for an apiary, and instructions in bee-keep-ing, see The Barn-Yard.*] ?The Barn-Yard: a Mamiul of Horse, Cattle, and Shoep Iliisbandry;or, How to Breed, Rear, and Use all the Common Domestic Animals. Em-bracing Descriptions of the various Breeds of Horses. Cattle, Shoi-p. Swine,Poultry, etc.; the Points or Characteristics by wliich to Judge Animals;Feeding; and General Management of Stock ; How to Improve Breeds; Howto Cure Sick Animals, etc. With a Chapter on Bees. :y published with Garden Farm. S; How many expensive, not to say fatal, errors in the buying, selling, breed-ing, and management of farm-stock mght be avoided by means of the practi-cal information and plain common-sense advice condensed into this compr©*hensire a
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