Excerpt from The Farmer His Own Builder: A Guide and Reference Book for the Construction of Dwellings, Barns and Other Farm Buildings, Together With Their Utilities The object of this book is to furnish a practical guide and reference for those who would undertake their own building improvements, but who are handi capped more or less by a limited knowledge of building construction. Its topics are prepared especially for the farmer, and deal almost exclusively with the erection of country dwellings, barns, and other farm buildings, to gether with their utilities. Numerous works are available which have to do with all kinds of structural and mechanical subjects. Most of them, however, are prepared in a strictly technical vein, consequently, though of unquestioned value to the experienced mind, they must necessarily appeal to specialists - those having considerable previous knowledge of the subjects - to be clearly understood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.