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usually necessary, on account of cost and uncertainty as to 

 markets and types of farming, to build rather cheaply and 

 temporarily. After a farming community is well estab- 

 lished, the farms developed and equipped with live stock 

 and machinery, and the farm is earning a fair income, it 

 usually becomes advisable to plan buildings carefully, and 

 build them of more permanent materials, so that repairs 

 and depreciation will be lessened. A log building or a 

 cheaply constructed frame building may be expected to 



Figure 121. — An attractive barn. 



last ten or fifteen years. A well built frame building, a 

 brick, or a concrete building will last fifty or more years. 

 The first cost of the more permanent buildings will be 

 greater, but the annual cost will probably be no more. 

 Because these better buildings are to be used longer, it is 

 more important that they be well planned so that they 

 will serve their purpose in the best possible way. 



Planning. — A great many farm buildings are put up 

 without careful planning. Farm buildings may be just as 

 artistic and attractive as buildings anywhere, and, if so, 

 will make the country more attractive and help to offset 

 the pull to the city. Likewise farm buildings are used 

 every day in the year in doing the work of the farm, and if 

 so planned as to faciUtate the work in the home and the 

 work of caring for the stock, they will be of much greater 

 real value. Architects have made a special study of plan- 



