The house, a manual of rural architecture, or, How to build country houses and out-buildings : embracing the origin and meaning of the house ; the art of house-building, including planning, style and construction ; desings and descriptions of cottages farm-houses, villas and out-buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture, etc., etc. ; and an appendix containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough-cast, etc. ; and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburnt brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall ; with numerous original plans (1866)
Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York : The American News Company, 39 and 41 Chambers Street · leaf 153
the groundforming the support to the whole. No less attention shunldbe 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. 160 The House. XII.-AK APIAET.Fig. 114 represents a design for a rustic apiary or… … Perspective Yiaw. seen. It may, of course, be made of any desirable size on thesame plan. [For directions in reference to the construction ofhives, the best site for an jipiary, and instructions in bee-keep-ing, see The Barn-Yard.*] •The Barn-Yard: a Manual of Morse, Cattle, and Sheep Husbandry;or,…
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