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IReabingsCourse for jfarmers 



Published by the Collegk of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 FROM November to March, and Entered at Ithaca as Second-class 

 Matter under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



SERIES VI. 

 BUILDINGS AND YARDS. 



ITHACA, N. Y., 

 NOVEMBER, 1905. 



No. 26. 



TASTEFUL BUILDINGS. 



TASTEFUL FARM BUILDINGS 



By L. H. Bailey 



We are strongly influenced by every constant condition of our lives. 

 All of us live in buildings, and from the first to the last we associate 

 with them. These buildings are silent teachers, always impressing us 

 more deeply than we are aware. Sense of convenience and efficiency, 

 of pleasing proportions, of tasteful shapes and harmonious colors ought 

 to be the lessons that our buildings impress on us ; yet how many farm 



Fig. 270. — ,4 piece of good architecture — simple, direct, of good proportions, and 



adapted to its purpose. 



buildings are really convenient and efficient, or of good proportion, or 

 express harmony of form and color? 



It may be difficult to determine what is cause aiid what is effect — 

 whether poor taste is the result of poor buildings or poor buildings the 

 result of poor taste ; but the influence undoubtedly works both ways. The 



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