[Leica] Better Homes and Gardens + off topic question.

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

same here.
The term outbuilding is usually used to describe real estate as in,
"Jim's got 160 acres, 80 tillable, 30 in pasture, 50 in woods, with 6  
outbuildings, a good dairy barn and two Smith silos."
from there the discussion may move to describe the outbuildings as,
"springhouse, smokehouse, 2 chicken coops, a summer kitchen and  
machine shed."
the machine shed is generally huge - housing tractors, manure  
spreaders, bailers, etc.
(and everything it takes to keep it all running).
For some reason the corn crib is rarely considered a building.
That pretty much describes traditional family farms in Wisconsin
(pre mega-agri-business operations)

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On Apr 25, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> I suppose it is a matter of how you think of it.  In rural  
> Louisiana, we
> certainly would not think of the smoke house as the smoke  
> building,  the
> well house as the well building,  or the car house as the car  
> building.
> These were structures on my family farm adjacent to the house.   
> Nearby, was
> THE outhouse.
>
> Other structures were the corn crib which also housed the wagon and
> sheltered the two mules, the barn that sheltered the cows and the  
> cotton
> house that kept the picked crop until it was transported to the  
> gin. These
> were all across the road.