Dairy Farmstead

What buildings identify this farmstead as a dairy farm?
Is this an efficient sized farm, which produces milk at the lowest cost?
 

• two silos, used to store feed for livestock -- either dairy (black and white Holstein cows shown here)
• large barns: the dairy herd in the basement and hay in the loft
• dairy farms were diversified in the past: horse barn, chicken house, pig pen, machine shed, smokehouse, and outhouse
• the answer is found under farm efficiency

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 30 April 1996; last revised on 07 Dec 2010.