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lawn has been made with reference to adornment, but without an 

 attempt to enter into the details of landscape gardening. The plan 

 leaves the lawn in such a shape, however, that the landscape gar- 

 dener may have full scope for the display of his talents. A plan 

 including, as this one does, complete protection from the hot winds of 

 summer and the cold storms of winter will add greatly to the intrinsic 



FIG. 3. Plan of a farmstead, situated at the southeast corner of a prairie farm, arranged 



to afford windbreak protection. 



worth of any farm located in the prairie States. If the farmer is 

 engaged in the production of beef and pork, the protection of the 

 barnyard and feedlots will economize the feed consumed by the fat- 

 tening animals, for it takes more grain to produce a pound of flesh 



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