The Book of Farm-Buildings: Their Arrangement and Construction. [With Plates.]Blackwood, 1861 - 562 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
12 inches 18 feet 9 inches angles Archimedean Screw balusters barn beam bedroom boiler-house bolts bothy bottom brick building byre cast-iron cattle cement centre cistern construction corn-barn cottages depth door and window door in front drain dyke embankment farm farmhouse feet 6 inches feet by 12 feet wide flange floor FOOT frame front elevation gable girder give ground ground-plan gutter height inches thick inches wide iron joint joists king-bolt king-post kitchen laid lath length lime lintels mortar mould pastoral farm pipe placed plaster Plate Provide and fix purlins queen-posts rafters roof scullery secured shown side elevation slates span stable stackyard stair stalls steading stone storey straw-barn struts surface tie-beam tie-rods timber truss upper ventilation wall-plates walls width window in front wood wrought-iron zinc
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Página 84 - How they lie down to rest, how they sleep, how they can preserve common decency, how unutterable horrors are avoided, is beyond all conception. The case is aggravated, when there is a young woman to be lodged in this confined space, who is not a member of the family, but is hired to do the field-work, for which every hind is bound to provide a female.
Página 146 - ... well rubbed and mixed. Put the two mixtures together in an earthen vessel over a gentle heat ; when well united, the mixture may be put into a phial and kept well stopped. " When wanted for use, the bottle must be set in warm water, when the china or glass articles must be also warmed, and the cement applied.
Página 148 - Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by first soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle, within a large one filled with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the whole mixture; stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt.
Página 507 - We may reason by analogy as to what is the cheapest and most effective means of securing perishable commodities from the action of the atmosphere and vermin. In England we put our flour in sacks. Brother Jonathan puts his in barrels, which does not thoroughly answer. . . . If Brother Jonathan wishes really to preserve his flour or his ' crackers - undamaged, he makes them thoroughly dry and cool, and hermetically • seals them in tin cans. This also is a common process to prevent goods being damaged...
Página 88 - To whatever extent the probable duration of the life of the working man is diminished by noxious agencies, I repeat a truism in stating that to some extent so much productive power is lost ; and in the case of destitute widowhood and orphanage, burdens are created and cast either on the industrious survivors belonging to the family, or on the contributors to the poor's rates during the whole of the period of the failure of such ability.