Second edition of an 1897 handbook on housing for domestic animals by Ugo Barpi, Director of the veterinary school of the University of Pisa. The volume describes various types of housing for livestock, including stables, dairy barns, pigsties, and poultry houses, as well as related rural buildings and facilities, such as hay storage areas and kitchens, and equipment including cattle crushes and troughs. A chapter is dedicated to farm hygiene, addressing factors such as humidity, temperature, and ventilation.

The James Manufacturing Company was founded in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, in 1906. It remained in business until the 1960s and was a well-known manufacturer of equipment and tools for livestock farms. The company also provided design services for barns and stables.

Third edition of a 1908 handbook on rural buildings by French agricultural engineer Jacques Danguy. A section describes different types of livestock housing, including stables, cattle sheds, sheepfolds and piggeries, with drawings, plans and sections. Source: Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

The book was published by Marquis Idelfonso Stanga, who experimented with modern zootechnical layouts and equipment on his estate in Crotta d’Adda (Cremona, northern Italy). He authored numerous works on zootechnics, particularly on pig farming. The book reflects a positivist approach to the improvement of rural buildings in early twentieth-century Italy.

Third edition of a textbook by Gustav Pusch, professor of animal husbandry at the University of Dresden. One section focuses on the housing of animals and barn architecture, with detailed descriptions of ventilation systems.

Concrete Troughs, Tanks, Hog Wallows, Manure Pits and Cisterns is a booklet published by the Portland Cement Association of Chicago. It promotes the use of cement and concrete in the construction of structures for collecting water, liquids, and manure on the farm.

Fifth edition of a textbook by Carl Kronacher, Professor of Zootechnics at the Bavarian Academy of Agriculture in Weihenstephan. One section focuses on the construction and design of barns for different animal species, including horses, cattle, and pigs.

Concrete on the Farm is a 1917 booklet published by the Atlas Portland Cement Company, a member of the U.S. Portland Cement Association. It is a pedagogical text aimed at farm owners that describes the advantages of using cement and concrete in rural buildings, including livestock housing.

The Louden Machinery Company was based in Fairfield, Iowa, and remained in business until the 1960s. It manufactured tools and equipment for livestock farms. From 1906 onward, the company had an architectural department that offered plans for dairy barns, horse stables, poultry houses, and other agricultural buildings. The company was founded by William Louden, who patented a hay carrier in the 1860s.

Farm Structures is a small treatise on rural buildings and infrastructures, including problems and exercises for college students. It was written by Edward Richard Jones, Head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Wisconsin from 1918 to 1937.

SAFIZ (Società Anonima Italiana Impianti Zootecnici e Agricoli) was an Italian company founded in 1932 in Milan. During the years of the fascist “battle of zootechnics”, it promoted the “American system” of “rational tie-stall housing” for cattle, importing designs and equipment for stalls, feeding and drinking troughs, and gutters from the United States.

La stalla moderna is an Italian booklet on the construction of dairy farms, published by the Ramo Editoriale degli Agricoltori in 1937. It promotes the modernization of farm buildings through ventilation systems, steel cubicles, mechanized drinking troughs, etc. It resonates with the goals related to the "Battaglia Zootecnica" (zootechnical battle) as promoted by the Fascist regime.

Handbook by Swedish architect Gottfried Beijer and agronomist Alrik Örborn, both teachers at the Alnarp Agricultural Institute, on rural buildings, including chapters on building materials and housing for cows, pigs, and poultry.

Postwar publication featuring a selection of projects submitted to a competition organized by the UK Farmer and Stock-Breeder Association, with several diagrams illustrating movement, metabolism, and ventilation in farm buildings.

Costruzioni rurali is a prominent handbook on the construction of farm buildings, published in 1956 by Giuseppe Stefanelli (1905–2009), professor of agricultural mechanics (meccanica agraria) in Pisa, Bologna and Florence.

SAFIZ (Società Anonima Italiana Impianti Zootecnici e Agricoli), founded in Milan in 1932, was a prominent zootechnical company in the postwar period. This 1959 catalogue includes the equipment manufactured and sold by the company, such as steel cubicles, fences, and troughs, as well as examples of modern barns built across Italy from the 1930s onward.

Comprehensive two-volume handbook by British architect John B. Weller on zootechnical buildings, featuring numerous illustrations and diagrams that reflect the intensification and mechanization of farming practices in the 1960s. The work was translated into Italian in 1976, as “Costruzioni agricole e zootecniche”.