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Show SECURING MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY ON FARM i windbreak horsf. yard ' pasture: lot ORCHARD trouoh .r.iw V-y . H3 vu,.fn,, '"I uf. 1 PROPOSED SITE. S vrV..mum.V possible HORSE , ADDITIONAL MRN I - J BUILDING MEN HOUSE (tiiaa ' ' rr rn 1 J TO HELD ANDPASTURE-QX a. TKWA LANE. N llfff f ( " vf-'-E barn 1 ' ' &TOCK J YARD GARDEN IstiAU rRuiT ELL 1 k U ' " An Actual Layout of Farm Buildings Designed to Meet Certain Definite Operations Op-erations and Conditions on a Particular Farm. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) The necessity of arranging the buildings build-ings of a farm with reference to each other and to the fields so as to avoid waste motion and loss of time in handling products, is pointed out by E. B. McCormick, chief of the division of rural engineering, office of public roads and rural engineering, in an article ar-ticle in the 1915 "Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture." Agricul-ture." On this subject Mr. McCormick McCor-mick says in part: "The modern manufacturing plant is so located, arranged and constructed that the particular product it manufactures manufac-tures progresses from the raw material mate-rial on through the different operations opera-tions in a regular order. There is no doubling back upon itself during its progress, and every effort is made to secure convenience and rapidity in the process. No two plants, however, will be exactly alike, even though manufacturing manu-facturing the same product, because the factors of site, switching facilities, locality, nature of labor available, and source of power all enter in to modify the general design. It is possible In the case of every farmer so to locate the fields, roads, barns, sheds, houses, etc., that the operations on that farm will be performed with the maximum efficiency and with the least loss of motion. The differences in arrangement arrange-ment and layout between two farms turning out approximately the same product are likely to vary even more than in the case of two factories because be-cause of the wider probable range in natural conditions. This means that even greater study must be put on the plant arrangement of the farm than of the factory if maximum efficiency is to result. "The lay-out illustrated Is suggested not with the idea that it is the best plan for every farm or any particular farm, but purely as illustrating the general principle of arranging the different dif-ferent farm buildings logically with reference to farm operations. An analysis an-alysis of this plan shows the location of a house easily accessible to the main highway. The house being on the east Bide of a north-and-south highway, the interior arrangement Is so planned that the disadvantage of a western exposure is overcome, and the effect of a southern exposure Is secured. This houpe is well separated from the other farm buildings, but commands a view of all of them and is not so far away as to render the passing pass-ing back and forth unnecessarily arduous. ardu-ous. "A few of the points that are brought out by an Inspection of this plan are: "(1) Vehicles and implements coming com-ing from the road go direct to the sheds without passing close to the house or other buildings, except the horse barn. In coming from the fields they may be taken direct to the sheds, and, without any doubling back, the horses pass into the stables or into the horse lot. "(2) The horse barn Is equally accessible acces-sible from the implement yard, the farm lane or the horse lot. "(3) The shop is so located that the operations of horseshoeing or vehicle and implement-repairing may be carried car-ried on either in the shop or Immediately Immedi-ately adjacent to it, without the necessity ne-cessity of bringing the work any appreciable ap-preciable distance or of requiring much traveling back and forth. "(4) The location of the farm office immediately over the shop gains all the advantages of a lookout tower, from the windows of which the owner or manager may command a view of practically the entire farm. It has the further advantage that on rainy days, when he Is most likely to be carrying on office work, the other employees of the farm are probably engaged in work In or near the shop, and, therefore, there-fore, come directly under his supervision. super-vision. "(5) The location of the cattle barn, which Is designed for feeding purposes only, is such that it is readily accessible acces-sible from the farm lane, the feed lot, or the fields. "(6) The corncrib Is so located that it serves as a portion of the fence for the hog lot, and requires the minimum handling of corn from the crib to the lot. "(7) The vegetable and flower gardens gar-dens may be reached handily from the house, and yet are entirely distinct from other farm activities and well removed re-moved from the poultry house. "(8) That provision has been made in this plan for future growth is shown by the fact that a site has been set aside that will give a convenient location for additional buildings to house any of the activities of the farm. "(9) The buildings most necessary of access from the kitchen are located close to It in convenient order and connected by a protected passage. At the same time they may readily be reached from the other parts of the farm." |