. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. STABLE WINDUW. Fia. lo. should be of different forms. 1. Fig. 14 represents a window for a stable. The opening is 4J feet in hight by 3 feet in width. The frame-work io composed of a dead part a of 1 foot in depth, 2 shutters hh to open on hinges, and fasten inside Fig. 14. with a thumb-catch, and c a glazed sash 2 feet in hight, with 3 rows of panes. When panes are made under 8 inches square, there is a considera- ble saving in the price of gla
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. STABLE WINDUW. Fia. lo. should be of different forms. 1. Fig. 14 represents a window for a stable. The opening is 4J feet in hight by 3 feet in width. The frame-work io composed of a dead part a of 1 foot in depth, 2 shutters hh to open on hinges, and fasten inside Fig. 14. with a thumb-catch, and c a glazed sash 2 feet in hight, with 3 rows of panes. When panes are made under 8 inches square, there is a considera- ble saving in the price of glass. The object of this form of a stable window is, that generally a great number of small articles are thrown on the sole of a work-horse stable window, such as short- ends, straps, &c. which are only used occasional- ly, and intended to be there at hand when wanted. The consequence of this confused mixture of things, which it is not easy for the farmer to pre- vent, is that, when the shutters are desired to be opened, it is scarcely possible to do it A\'ithout first clearing the sole of ev- erything ; and, rather than find another place for them, the window remains shut. A press in a wall might be suggested for containing these small arti- cles ; but in the only wall, namely, the front one of the stable O, in which it would be convenient to make such a press, all its surface is occupied by the harness hanging against it; and besides, no orders, however peremp- tory, will prevent such articles being, at throng times, thrown upon the window-soles ; .and where is the harm of their lying there at hand, provided the \\ando\vs are so constructed as to admit of being opened when desired ? AVhen a dead piece of wood, as a, \p put into such windows, small things may remain on the sole, while the shutters h h are opened over them. 2. In other apartments, such as byres, coni-barn, calves' house, boiling-house, implement-house, hay- house, where there is no chance of an accumula- tion
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