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The Farmstead 



work in the barns would be greatly diminished, 

 and the discomfort of both man and beast would 

 be ameliorated. For the sake of the farm boy 

 and for the animal which he cares for, to say 

 nothing of economy, beauty and neatness, may 



Fig. 120. Treatment of the gable. 



I not ask those who have these scattered, un- 

 handy, uncomfortable barns, to study well the 

 illustrations given, which show the old and the 

 new arrangement! 



The accompanying illustration (Fig. 121) of 



