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THE little work under notice is intended to guide the American farmer and agricultural student in designing and constructing farm buildings. It is stated that farm buildings have had their most rapid development in America in the years since 1910. Prior to that one could, and indeed still can, find the early buildings put up by the first settlers, made of logs, if trees were abundant, or of sods or boards if they were not, as happened on the prairies. Now, however, these rough constructions have largely disappeared, or remain only as stores of subsidiary importance, and their place is taken by large new and characteristic-looking structures of steel and concrete. The change is not only one of convenience: it represents a great saving on the farm. It is estimated that at least 100,000,000 dollars is lost annually to American farmers through depreciation of farm machinery due to lack of proper housing; that 200,000,000 dollars are lost annually owing to the consumption of badly stored food by rats; and further, that considerable increases in milk and meat production could be obtained if the animals were better housed.
Farm Buildings.
By W. A. Foster Deane G. Carter. (Agricultural Engineering Series.) Pp. xv + 377. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1922.) 15s. net.
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Farm Buildings. Nature 111, 391 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111391b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111391b0