EQUIPMENT OP THE AVERAGE FARM. 



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to 1 mature animal. Since young lambs are later included with the 

 ewes in Table XIII, no correction for them was necessary. The space 

 in harness rooms is included in that shown for horses, and space 

 devoted to milk rooms, etc., in that shown for cattle. For sheep the 

 space includes both floor and rack room, with very little waste. For 

 swine the space shown includes feed alleys, etc., in hog houses. The 

 average space per head is of course much too small for the entire herd 

 of swine. Only 11 out of 21 farms show a definite space devoted to 

 swine, and on the other farms swine usually occupy a portion of the 

 "All stock" space during part of the year. Portable houses for the 

 brood sows are in common use. Such portable houses, averaging 

 4.1 per farm, were included with the miscellaneous items of equip- 

 ment rather than with permanent farm buildings. 



Table X. — Average area and volume of space per farm and per head devoted to live-stock 



enterprises in buildings on 21 Ohio farms. 



SIZE OF FARM BUILDINGS. 



It is possible to plan a practicable set of farm buildings wliich will 

 almost exactly fit the conditions of the average farm under consid- 

 eration. The size and nature of the buildings must of course be 

 varied to fit any individual conditions, but assuming that the data 

 in Tables IX and X give the requirements for this particular size 

 and type of farm, the size of the separate buildings is the next item 

 to be determined. 



Basement ham. — Of the barns on the 21 farms about half were base- 

 ment or "bank" barns, and in most of the others the space equivalent 

 to a basement was pro\dded by attaching to the barn unsightly sheds 

 of the lean-to type. On most farms a convenient site for a basement 

 barn can be had without excessive grading, and the advantages of 

 this type are such that they will be provided for in the bam to be 

 planned. 



Horses, cattle, and sheep are often sheltered in the basement 

 of a barn. Such a barn 36 by 60 feet provides 2,160 square feet of 

 floor space (outside measurement), while the requirements for the 



