CHAPTER XV 



A DISCUSSION OF BAENS 



Modern agriculture requires large and com- 

 modious barns and other structures to house the 

 crops, the animals, tools, and implements. 

 Especially is this true when mixed farming is 

 conducted in an intensified and economical way. 

 In early days one or, at most, two low barns 

 of 30 by 40 feet were supposed to supply all 

 shelter accommodations required for a farm of 

 one hundred acres. At the present time, on the 

 same farms, may often be seen a barn 60 by 80 

 feet and double the height of the old struc- 

 tures, with a wing one -half of the capacity of 

 the main barn to which it is attached, this 

 single structure providing more than six times 

 the cubic space of two of the old barns. One 

 sizable farm in Tompkins county. New York, 

 had, for many years, a single barn 30 by 40 

 feet with 14 -foot posts. It now has a barn 

 which provides more than fifteen times the room 

 of the old one, and yet it is scarcely large 

 enough to house the animals and crops of this 

 modest farm. 



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