FARM MECHANICS 



CHAPTER I 



THE FAEM SHOP WITH TOOLS FOR WORKING WOOD 



IRON 



FARM SHOP AND IMPLEMENT HOUSE 



The workshop and shed to hold farm implements 

 should look as neat and attractive as the larger build- 

 ings. Farm implements are expensive. Farm machin- 

 ery is even more so. When such machinery is all prop- 

 erly housed and kept in repair the depreciation is esti- 

 mated at ten per cent a year. When the machines are 

 left to rust and weather in the rain and wind the loss is 

 simply ruinous. 



More machinery is required on farms than formerly 

 and it costs more. Still it is not a question whether a 

 farmer can afford a machine. If he has sufficient work 

 for it he knows he cannot afford to get along without 

 it and he must have a shed to protect it from the 

 weather when not in use. 



In the first place the implement shed should be large 

 enough to accommodate all of the farm implements 

 and machinery without crowding and it should be well 

 built and tight enough to keep out the wind and small 

 animals, including chickens and sparrows. 



The perspective and plan shown herewith is twenty- 

 four feet in width and sixty feet in length. 



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