Repair And Maintenance Of Farm Buildings PDF Download

Excerpt from Farm Buildings Farm buildings in America have had their most rapid development in the years since 1910. With the exception Of that pertaining to the farmhouse, there is little literature to be found on the subject. The conditions surrounding the American farm have tended to hold back the development of good farm buildings. The early settlers in the timbered localities were primarily con cerned with wresting a livelihood from their cleared fields, and bringing more land under the plow. For their buildings they used the material nearest at hand and the log cabin and log barn became a part Of the agricultural history Of the country. The pioneer on the treeless prairie used the sod shanty, or the one-room board shack. The homesteaders were Often people with little ready money, and their buildings were only the barest Of shelters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.