CONTENTS.
Practical Construction — Continued.
Sluice-valves,
427
Pigeon-houses,
491
Gates of Iron,
429
Rabbitry, ....
492
Wire Fences,
434
Piggeries, ....
492
Iron Sheds, ....
442
Slaughter-house,
493
Grain-drying Kilns, Sheds, and Ma-
Combined Construction.
chines, ....
494
446
Tank Granaries,
507
Wood combined with Stone and Brick ,
454
Brick-kilns and Drying-sheds,
509
Iron combined with Concrete,
456
Drain-tile Work,
510
461
Plans of Farm Carpenter’s Shop and
462
Smithy, ....
510
462
4. Miscellaneous Appliances :—
Tools of the Joiner, . . . 466
Tools of the Mason, . . . 468
Tools of the Smith, . . . 469
Vortical Saw Frame for cutting Trees, 473Endless Band Saw, . . . 474
Mortising, Boring, Tenoning Machine, 475Sheep-fence-making Machine , . 476
Useful Apparatus for the Farm.Caldrons and Furnace,
Fire-engine, .
Pumps,
Hydraulic Bam,
Steam-pump, .
Cranes,
Gas Apparatus,
5.'Detached Erections
Isolated Byre,Isolated Dairy,Sheep-feeding Sheds,Poultry-houses,
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479
479
480
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487
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489
490
6. Foreion Farm-Buildings :—
Belgian and Dutch Steadings, . 513
American Barns, . . .517
French Steading at Vincennes, . 525
7. Estimates and Calculations opArtificers’ Work op VariousKinds :—
Diggers’ and Excavators’ Work ,Brickwork , ....Stone-paving,
Carpentry and Joinery Work,
Tables for Calculating the Quantityof Timber in Joists, Roofs, Parti-tions, Roof-trusses, &c., in a givenScantling and Space Apart,Calculations of the Cubical Contentsof Timber in 1 Square of 100 feetof Roofing, ....Calculations of the Cubical Contentsof Timber in 1 Square of 100 feetof Partition,
Wrought-iron Girders and Beams ,Weight of Round Iron Bars as Ten-sion-rods for Roof-trusses,
Weight of Lead and surface coveredby it of a given weight to the foot,Glossary of Technical Terms,
Index, ....
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