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Originally published in 1910s, authored by a reputable American architect who specialized in modern farm buildings, this classic book suggests the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, and other buildings of the farm group, from the practical sanitary and artistic viewpoint.

Contents Covered:

• Artistic Possibilities of the Farm Building
• The Cow Barn
  • Feed Room
  • Milk Room
  • Location of Cattle
  • Materials
  • Sizes
  • Arrangement of Cattle
  • Cow Stalls
  • Calf Pens
  • Bull Pens
  • Watering and Feeding Troughs
  • Water
  • Floors and Floor Drainage
  • Liquid Manure
  • Plumbing
  • Ventilation
  • Artificial Heat
  • Manure Trolley
  • Bedding
  • Silos
  • Cow Yard
  • Painting
  • Blinds and Flies
  • Doors
  • Windows
  • Utensils
• The Dairy
  • Milk Receiving Room
  • Milk Room
  • Wash Room
  • Laundry
  • Boiler Room: Live Steam
  • Plans of Dairies
  • Heating and Ventilating of the Dairy Milking Machines
  • Vacuum Cleaner
• Other Buildings of the Farm Group
  • The Hay Barn
  • Wagon Room
  • Harness Room
  • Horse Stable
  • Stall
  • Feed Room
  • Shed
  • Machinery Room and Tool Room
  • Chicken Houses
  • Poultry Bibliography
  • Sheepfold
  • Manure Pit and Piggery
  • Root Cellar
  • Ice House
  • Corn Crib
• 15 Plans of Farm Barns
• The Garage
• The Smaller Problem

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