The Modern Homestead

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Excerpt from The Modern Homestead: Its Arrangement and Construction There is need - and in many cases there is room - for greater economy in providing the buildings necessary for agricultural holdings. At the present day neither the owner nor the occupier of land can afford to spend money lavishly or thoughtlessly in any form of farm equipment. The time for lordly estate or farm management has gone past, probably never to return. Even when the strictest economy is observed it is no easy matter for landowners or farmers to draw from land anything like a reasonable return for their capital employed upon it. With these significant circumstances in view, one all the more heartily welcomes the appearance of such a work as Mr. Henderson offers to the public in the volume entitled "The Modern Homestead." For the preparation of this volume Mr. Henderson has exceptional qualifications. His tastes, training and experience have all combined to fit him for such an undertaking. He is familiar with the numerous types of homesteads to be seen upon present-day farms, and has made it his business to study their peculiar features, their weak points, and their strong. He has had extensive and varied practical experience both in the erection of new homesteads and in the repairing and remodelling of old. Armed with this knowledge and guided by a clear and commendable conception of the principles which should be uppermost in the minds of modern farm architects, he set himself to the preparation of a work which cannot fail to be of great service both to owners and occupiers of land. An outstanding feature in "The Modern Homestead" is its consistent and thoroughly wholesome inculcation of the principle of the strictest and soundest economy. Unnecessary or unremunerative outlay of money is carefully guarded against at every point. A minimum expenditure, consistent with efficiency, is an object which Mr. Henderson has kept constantly in view. Economy in labour is another point of prime importance in the designing of farm homesteads, and to this also Mr. Henderson has given careful attention. The author is a skilful draughtsman and has done well to make free use of this accomplishment. The many excellent sketches and plans it contains enhances greatly the practical usefulness of the book. 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.