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Wanted
WANTED—Five stands of bees.
C. C. Zinn, DOLMONT FARMS.
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Timely Information
From The Home Agent
Future farmhouses designed for the Northeast can be made more satisfactory to live in by a new report of a survey of what farm families in this area need and want in a home.
More than 600 farm families, of t.ie 12 northeastern states from Maine to West Virginia, answered questions about the houses they live in, the kind they would prefer, their household activities, and their possessions that require storage. The findings now are published in a new 458 page report.
The survey is being matched by similar research in the other regions of the U.S., altogether forming the first national survey of this kind ever made. Undertaken with funds provided by the Research and Marketing Act of 1946, Ttnnutvey is a joint roeenrch task of the 'ti. S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics and 29 states.
Findings for the Northeastern area, the first to b<? reported, indicate that nearly half of the occupied farm houses in the area were built at least 100 years ago.
Presenting the findings for the Northeastern Farm Housing Technical Committee, Prof. Glenn H. Beyer, of Cornell University, points u>.t a trend for farm families to prefer houses of fewer stones. About 34 per cent of the Northeast farm families questioned said that they prefer a onestory house. Only About three per cent live in such homes now. Only Id per cent said they prefer two and a half or three story houses, yet 35 per cent are living in such houses.
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