Economic farmhouses and their architectural problems (1914)
Etherton, William Alonzo · leaf 51
the improvement of the farm, moreover,dairymen have been constrained by municipal regulations to build modern, san-itary barns that will conserve the health of the cows and the healthfulness ofthe milk. The residence, on the other hand, is not, or at least is should not be a 11 purely utilitarian… … Its economic value is not clearly in evidence, but it is not difficult forthe discerning mind to comprehend, it is the most important building on thefarm,and money judiciously expended in its construction and equipment will in-evitably bring greater returns than in any other improvement which the…
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