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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. FARX BUILDINGS, FENCES, ETC. In tbis department will be found ample directions for the various kinds of dwellings which our readers may be likely to need; from the rude, though comfortable log thanty, to the costly and tasteful framed and brick house. In the selection of a spot for a dwelling, one that is dry and somewhat elevated should be c'iKtsen. The conven. 'ence of a spring should also be considered. If there be handsome trees standing on and around the selected site, be careful not to cut down too many of them. Spare the trees; you will not repent it. Have an eye to ornament as well as utility and convenience. LOG SHANTY. Some will advise a house to be first built, others a shanty; but the latter is so expeditiously done, and is so much cheaper, and a comfortable house till the emigrant gets acclimated, that we consider it the best. A shanty is built of logs cut from the felled trees. The size of the building to be according to the number of me family. They are to be seen from fourteen feet long and twelve brofed, to eighteen feet by fr -rteen feet or so?the shape as t'-tlows: The roof may be covered with shingles, or witn boards. Shingles are made from the pine, by cutting a pine-tree down, and then cutting it with a saw called a cross-cut saw, into lengths or blocks of eighteen inches long, (they are cut sometimes twenty-four inches long, ) and these blocks are split into thin slices of different breadths, but they will be about one length. These are shaved off with a drawing-knife, at one end, when the shingle is done. They are sold from one and a half dollars to two and a half dollars per bunch, containing what is called one thousand shingles, of different breadths. A thousand shingles will cover about ten feet square of a roof, (th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217930574
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217930573
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 236 gr


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