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with his building problems. Consult them and get their adver- 

 tising booklets. The illustrations will help and give many useful 

 ideas. These companies maintain competent engineers who will 

 furnish plans for new buildings or for the rearrangement of old 

 ones. The cost of this service is very small compared with the 

 help that can be obtained. The best known companies are the 

 James Manufacturing Company, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, or 

 Elmira, New York; the Louden Machinery Company, Fairfield, 

 Iowa, or Albany, New York; or Hunt, Helm, Ferris & Company, 

 Harvard, Illinois, or Albany, New York. 



Most of the agricultural colleges of the various states have 

 agricultural engineering departments in which the problems of 

 farm buildings are treated. We have tried all through our discus- 

 sions to interest our readers in utilizing these public agencies, 

 namely, their farm bureau agents and their colleges of agriculture. 

 Right here is an opportunity to get very definite help. One or two 

 little suggestions from an engineer may be worth a great deal to a 

 farmer planning to build. Again, be sure to build on paper first 

 by drawing and studying plans. 



