FARM IMPLEMENTS AND BUILDINGS. 59 



be a carpenter's bench, provided with such tools as 

 are necessary to do ordinary woodwork repairs. 

 Extra sets of whiffle-trees should be kept on hand in 

 case of breakage, and hooks for all the spades, 

 shovels, scythes, forks, etc. 



The location of the building should be convenient Location and 



° Dimensions of 



to both the barn and house (see page 102), and at the Building, 

 same time be isolated for safety in case of fire. The 

 size of the building must correspond to the require- 

 ments of the farm. For a farm of, say, one hundred 

 and fifty acres, a building sixty feet long by twenty- 

 six feet wide (see III. 28) will not be too large for all 

 the farm machinery, implements, waggons, sleighs, 

 carriages, cutters, etc. The building need not be 

 high. The floor should be low so that waggons and 

 implements can be taken out or put in by hand. An 

 earth floor slightly higher than the surrounding 

 ground is all that is necessary. 



In a building sixty feet long, three doors are all Doors with 

 that are required, each nine feet wide, with the 

 spaces also nine feet. Hang the doors with pulleys 

 on an iron bar running the whole length. The doors 

 can all be opened without interfering with each 

 other. 



The most important building on the farm is the Farm Barn - 

 barn. The location of the barn has much to do 

 with the profits of the farm. Not only has the hand- 

 ling and storing of the crops to be considered, but 

 the housing of the live stock, so as to get the best 

 results at the least cost. 



The first thins: to be considered is the system of Adapted to 



. ° . J System of 



1 arming to be adopted. If dairying, will it be home Farming, 

 dairying, or will the milk be sent to the factory, or 

 is the intention to raise pure-bred stock? It may 

 be that the farm and location are suitable for sum- 

 mer grazing and selling the stock in autumn. In 



