. Our farm and building book. . ke this is necessary 5CALE H0U3J 14x16 on every large farm. Too much stuffis bought and sold by guess feeding stock for gains, it is agreat satisfaction, as well as a directbenefit, to know what gains the stockare making, always with a view ofchanging the rations to producequicker results. For this kind ofweighing, the scale house should havea lane at one side, with pens for thecontrol of animals that have beenweighed, and other animals waitingto be weighed. These pens need notbe large, but they should be con-veniently arranged to get the stockin and o
. Our farm and building book. . ke this is necessary 5CALE H0U3J 14x16 on every large farm. Too much stuffis bought and sold by guess feeding stock for gains, it is agreat satisfaction, as well as a directbenefit, to know what gains the stockare making, always with a view ofchanging the rations to producequicker results. For this kind ofweighing, the scale house should havea lane at one side, with pens for thecontrol of animals that have beenweighed, and other animals waitingto be weighed. These pens need notbe large, but they should be con-veniently arranged to get the stockin and out. The exhaustion of some compara-tively new soils in the corn belt, bythe continuous cropping to corn, hasreduced the corn yield from seventybushels per acre down to twenty-fivebushels, and in some cases even the other hand, where scientificfarm methods have been carried out,the original seventy bushel yield hasbeen increased to eighty bushels andto ninety bushels, and in a great manyinstances to 100 bushels per Ground Plan of Scale House A187L SCALE HOUSE A neat, inexpensive building thatshould be on every farm. Size, 14 by16 feet. We can furnish complete setof blue-printed working plans andtypewritten specifications for only$ When ordering, ask for De-sign No. A-187L. MISCELLANEOUS FARM BUILDINGS Modern Two-Story Corn Criband Granary—Design A344L. The most important aid to modernfarming is labor saving buildings andmachinery,—the newest of which is thetwo-story corn crib and grain house. A two^story farm grain house is alabor saving building. Machinery in such a building takesthe place of expensive hand labor. Ma-chinery is cheap; but human muscle isthe most expensive of all agriculturalproducts. To make a two-story corn crib thatwill fit the elevating machinery it isnecessary to know: That certain makes of elevators re-quire a pit to hold the elevator boot. That some elevators have foldingboots. That sufficient headroom in the drive-way should be pr
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