. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . arn. It is earnestly hoped these have demonstratedthat such buildings can be made not only practical, but mayhave an architectural character entirely .their own. In ourpresent methods of haste, especially with regard to thingsartistic, the esthetic value of the farm barn has been entirelyoverlooked. Men have lavished
. Modern farm buildings : being suggestions for the most approved ways of designing the cow barn, dairy, horse barn, hay barn, sheepcote, piggery, manure pit, chicken house, root cellar, ice house, and other buildings of the farm group, on practical, sanitary and artistic lines . arn. It is earnestly hoped these have demonstratedthat such buildings can be made not only practical, but mayhave an architectural character entirely .their own. In ourpresent methods of haste, especially with regard to thingsartistic, the esthetic value of the farm barn has been entirelyoverlooked. Men have lavished vast sums in the building ofthe house and in the adornment of the coach stable, in great 164 MODERN FARM BUILDINGS gardens and woods and bridges, but the home of the farm ani-mal has received but little attention from those who wouldmake it sightly as well as sanitary. The far greater part of this book has of necessity been de-voted to the practical things, for the architect of our timesmust build usefully as well as artistically, but the authorwould feel that his work had been in vain if he has not shownthat the farm buildings may be made an attractive additionto any estate, as well as a more comfortable and healthfulplace for the patient creatures who dwell within Chapter VIITHE SMALLER PROBLEM IT occasionally happens that the architect is called uponto design a building for a horse and a cow, or latterly anautomobile and a cow, the owner wishing to provide againstthe possibilities of impure milk by securing it fresh from hisown animal. Generally, the cheapest and best method forsuch a farmer to pursue in his quest for clean milk is to buy
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