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its size and the number of its rooms being generally regulated
by the needs of the farm, and the larger or smaller requirements
of the owner. As a rule there is under the whole house a cellar
for storage of the root crops needed for the household, as well
as for other stores. The main building also contains a kitchen,
a pantry, one or more parlours and sleeping-rooms and guests
rooms. It is always built of logs, generally wainscoted on the
inside, and built in one or two stories, according to the size of
the farm and the custom of the district. Near the main building,
but separated from it, there is, as a rule, another building
containing the laundry, room for the hired help, and also

Modern farm.

accommodation for the winter store of fuel. The out-building, properly
so-called, gives accommodation for the animals, of which each
kind has its separate compartment, and also for hay, grain,
threshing implements, etc. The manure is well housed either in the
cellar below, or sheds open at the sides so that, in our wet
climate, it may not lose its strength from exposure to the weather.
In more modern out-buildings there is, as a rule, at a certain
distance from the floor, often quite up under the gable, a waggon
bridge running through the whole length of the building. The
hay as well as the unthreshed grain is driven in here and easily
removed from the waggons into the barn below, where it can
thus be well packed, and requires little space. The out-building,
like the other edifices, is built of wood, except the walls of the
stable which are sometimes made of stone or brick. The so-called

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