CORNELL 



IReabingsCourse foe jfarmers 



PUBr.ISHED BY THE COLLEGK OF AGRICULTURE OF CORNEr.L UNIVERSITY, 



FROM November to March, and Entered at Ithaca as Second-cfjAss 

 Matter under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Dikector 



SERIES VI. 

 BUILDINGS AND YARDS. 



ITHACA, N. Y., 

 DECEMBER, 1905. 



No. 27. 

 FARM YARDS. 



TASTEFUL FARAI YARDS 



By L. H. Bailey 



The buildings and the yards make up the farmstead. In Bulletin No. 

 26 we discussed the appeal that tasteful and untasteful buildings make to 

 the resident and also to the visitor. The yard makes a similar appeal. 

 The building and the yard together really stand as an index to the char- 



FiG. 293. — An opcn-ccntcrcd lawn and naturally planted border. 



actcristics of the men and women that live on the place. 1 ae farm 

 represents the kind of farmer the man is ; the farmstead also represents 

 in an even more personal way what the man himself is. 



I sometimes think that the yard is more expressive of the man than 

 the buildings are, because it is more immediately within his control. It 



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