CHAPTER III 



FARM BUILDINGS 



Prlmary Essentials to be Observed in 

 Their Construction — The Barn the 

 Centre of the Group — The Lowly 

 Piggery and Cow Stable. 



UNSUITABLE and Inconveniently ar- 

 ranged farm buildings cause many un- 

 necessary steps and the spending of much 

 valuable time, which might be more profitably 

 employed. Buildings on the average farm in the 

 East are, as a rule, lacking in four essential par- 

 ticulars, namely, convenience of grouping out- 

 side, proper arrangements within, protection 

 against fire, and in adequate architectural design. 

 To one who has recently purchased a country 

 home, then, the rearrangement of farm build- 

 ings becomes a most serious problem. 



In all probabihty the buildings on an aver- 

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