GROUND PLAN

GROUND PLAN

GROUND PLAN.

In the ground plan will be seen a brick, or stone partition - which may extend to such height as may be necessary to contain the bulk of ashes required for storage within it - on one side of the building, to which a door gives access. The opposite side, and overhead, is devoted to the smoke-house, in which the various girts and hooks may be placed, for sustaining the meats to be smoked. The building should be tied together by joists at the plates, properly anchored into the walls, to prevent their spreading. A stove, or pans, or neither, as the method of keeping the smoke alive may govern, can be placed inside, to which the chimney in the roof may serve as a partial escape, or not, as required. The whole process is so simple, and so easily understood, that further explanation is unnecessary.

Fonte: Rural Architecture. Farm Houses.