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The book offers practical guidance for creating a productive, comfortable rural home and efficient farm layout, beginning with selecting and purchasing land and treating the farm as a source of income and educational opportunity. It covers siting the house, planning and constructing dwellings and farm buildings (foundations, framing, coverings, painting), and remodeling older structures. Detailed chapters address household organization, furnishing, heating and ventilation, water supply and sewage, yard and garden design, barns and their basements and superstructures, outbuildings (poultry houses, piggeries, silo), fences, orchards, field arrangement, and lightning protection, with technical and managerial advice for improving farmstead function and comfort.

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Title: The farmstead: The making of the rural home and the lay-out of the farm

Author: Isaac Phillips Roberts

Release date: June 5, 2022 [eBook #68243]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The MacMillan Company, 1900

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Please see the Trascriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

The Rural Science Series
Edited by L. H. Bailey

THE FARMSTEAD

THE FARMSTEAD
 
THE MAKING OF THE RURAL HOME AND
THE LAY-OUT OF THE FARM

BY

ISAAC PHILLIPS ROBERTS

Director of the College of Agriculture and Professor of Agriculture in
Cornell University; author of “The Fertility of the Land”

FIFTH EDITION

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1910
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1900
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped January, 1900
Reprinted August, 1902; January, 1905;
August, 1907; June, 1910

Mount Pleasant Press
J. Horace McFarland Company
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGES
I. Rural Homes 1-11
II. The Farm as a Source of Income 12-42
III. Educational Opportunity on the Farm 43-53
IV. Selection and Purchase of Farms 54-64
V. The Relation of the Farmer to the Lawyer (By Hon. DeForest VanVleet) 65-73
VI. Locating the House 74-86
VII. Planning Rural Buildings 87-131
VIII. Building the House—General Lay-out 132-157
Building the Foundations 138
Wooden Houses—The Frame 142
IX. Building the House, Concluded—Outside Covering, Painting 158-180
Veneered Houses 168
Old Houses 170
Painting the House 173
X. Inside Finish, Heating, and Ventilation 181-192
Heating and Ventilation 190
XI. House Furnishing and Decoration (By Professor Mary Roberts Smith) 193-203
XII. Cleanliness and Sanitation—Water Supply and Sewage (By Professor Mary Roberts Smith) 204-223
Water Supply and Sewage 217
XIII. Household Administration, Economy, and Comfort (By Professor Mary Roberts Smith) 224-236
XIV. The Home Yard (By Professor L. H. Bailey) 237-248
XV. A Discussion of Barns 249-265
Location 255
Planning the Barn 259
Water Supply 261
XVI. Building the Barn—The Basement 266-287
Excavation 268
Walls 271
Floors 277
Stalls 280
Mangers and Ties 285
XVII. Building the Barn—The Superstructure 288-297
XVIII. Remodeling Old Barns 298-305
XIX. Outbuildings and Accessories 306-320
Poultry Houses 306
Piggeries 311
The Silo 316
XX. Lightning Protection (By H. H. Norris, M.E.) 321-335
Metal Roofs 324
Protecting Wooden Roofs 326
XXI. The Fields 336-345
Fences 336
Orchards 340
Farm Garden 341
  Index 346

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