View. 



2 The next slide shows a farm l ' home. ' ' The whole place looks 

 comfortable. It invites you to come in and sit with the family 

 by the fireside. It is a home; you would like to live there. 

 A few trees, a vine or two, and some grass may make the dif- 

 ference between a house and a home. A house is merely a 

 shelter, a place where people stay. A home is a house, with evi- 

 dences in and about it that the people who live there love it. 

 They have taken the trouble to make it attractive and inviting. 

 There are hi this country too many farmhouses and too few 

 farm homes. Yet no one loves his family more than the 

 farmer or is more interested in their welfare. His neglect of 

 their surroundings is not from lack of affection but lack of 

 knowledge and appreciation of the effect of shrubs, trees, 

 vines, and a well-kept lawn upon the family life. 



3 Farm homes ought to be the most attractive of all homes, 

 since they are in the open country where plants live and are 

 free to grow. Very few farms are as unfortunately situated 

 as that shown in this picture. This is a farmhouse on a cattle 

 range in one of the semiarid regions of the West, beyond the 

 possibility of irrigation. The landscape is drear and desolate. 

 Not a tree can be seen only a waste of sagebrush and cacti. 

 The desert has a charm of its own, but without irrigation this 

 house can never be made homelike on the outside, whatever it 

 may be within. 



4 How different is the scene in the next picture, which shows a 

 farm home under more favorable circumstances. Grass and 

 trees, the two most important aids to home adornment, grow 

 luxuriantly. It is easy to have an attractive home under 

 these conditions. The great majority of American farms are 

 located where trees, grass, and flowers grow without special 

 care; if, therefore, the home is not attractive, it is due solely to 

 the negligence of those who are entrusted with its care. 



FARM BUILDINGS. 



5 Before proceeding with the details 1 of planting the farm home 

 grounds, a word should be said about farm buildings. This 

 illustration shows a mistake common in locating the buildings. 

 The house is set some distance back from the road, and there 

 are about a dozen small barns, cribs, sheds, pigpens, and other 

 outbuildings between the house and the road, all of which 

 must be passed in going to the house. Under such conditions 

 it will be difficult to make this an attractive farm home. A 

 further disadvantage here is the fact that the house is located 

 in a hollow, close to a spring, and hence is shut off from attrac- 



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