Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION c^. j^^ Young Farmer Builds His Barn pD. PARDON, who, with his brother-*-- Jim, farms a splendid 200 acrefarm in Whitby township, Ontario,wanted a new barn and wanted it bad-ly. But labor was almost impossibleto get. Materials were bad enough inprice and scarce enough, too, but hewas not to be beaten, and he set towork to do the job whether or no. Luckily he had some timber fromthe old barns, but as usual old barnsdo not turn out much serviceable stuffand he had to look around for posts,plates and stringers. In Whitby townth
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION c^. j^^ Young Farmer Builds His Barn pD. PARDON, who, with his brother-*-- Jim, farms a splendid 200 acrefarm in Whitby township, Ontario,wanted a new barn and wanted it bad-ly. But labor was almost impossibleto get. Materials were bad enough inprice and scarce enough, too, but hewas not to be beaten, and he set towork to do the job whether or no. Luckily he had some timber fromthe old barns, but as usual old barnsdo not turn out much serviceable stuffand he had to look around for posts,plates and stringers. In Whitby townthere was an old estate which had fal-len into decay and whereon severallarge fir trees grew. He purchaseda number of these trees and had themsquared at a local mill. The basement had to be high, lightand frost proof. For this he built acement base, in some places six feetdeep on which to erect a hollow-tilewall. The services of a local masonv/ere secured to do this tile laying, butall the other basement work, includingcement bases for the posts and the siloand the root-
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