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The Cornell Reading-Courses 



NEED OF A FARM PLAN 



No building can be discussed intelligently apart from its surroundings. 

 The best placing of the farmhouse depends on the location of the barns 

 and the outbuildings. The relation of these buildings to cne another and 

 to such considerations as sunlight, view, roadways, and garden should 

 be carefully studied. Obviously, a general farm scheme that unites into 

 one workable system lands, barns, and dwelling is the wisest beginning 

 for the development of any property. Each improvement will then take 

 its place in the final scheme, and permanent economy will result. Owners 



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Fig. 60. — Perspective view of farm group, in which house, garden, orchard, lane, and 

 farm buildings have been planned into a united scheme 



of either old or new farmsteads will profit by adhering to a simple and 

 direct working plan for the farm grounds. The farmhouse is merely one 

 unit of the whole farmstead. 



The practical value of a working plan can hardly be over-estimated. 

 The haphazard farm groups commonly seen bear eloquent testimony to 

 the futility of developing property without plan. Failure to plan in- 

 volves waste of money and labor; it means a continuous process of tearing 

 down, reconstructing, and makeshift. Under all circumstances, hit-and- 

 miss methods of work have proved unfailingly wasteful. Organized 

 farming and organized housekeeping are the order of the day, and to 

 this end an organized arrangement is necessary. A well-planned farm- 

 stead is more economical, more orderly, more beautiful, and more salable 

 than one which, like Topsy, " just growed." 



