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unreasonable layout, and quickly lost sight of. \Miat I want 

 to get at is, that whatever man does for the betterment of him- 

 self he does from a preconceived purpose and plan, however 

 crude or inadequate that plan may be, and wherever you find 

 the work of man, you will find the marks of a purpose, and of 

 a plan, even though the purpose may have been transitory 

 and the plan but crude. In determining the different lands 

 which constitute the present farms and gardens, many varied 

 and forgotten reasons have determined their lines. The sub- 

 divisions of different farms into different fields and lots is 

 usually, also, a forgotten history. They probably answered the 

 purposes satisfactory to the men who laid them out, but even 

 if they did, then it does not follow that we should continue the 

 old sub-divisions if a different one would serve our purpose 

 better. Now I am not advocating the shifting of the walls and 

 fences, but I do advocate that every land owner should consider 

 the uses to which he puts his land, and consider carefully 

 if a different sub-division would be more desirable and more 

 profitable to him. 



The trend of the times points to unification and simplification 

 of interest, be it trust, a workingman's union, a mercantile or 

 mechanical business, or farming, fruit growing or gardening. 

 The ideal is that each factor in the farming operations shall 

 come into such relations with each other that each will receive 

 its proportionate part of the labor at the right time and in such 

 a way that it can be easily attended to, so that each day will 

 bring to its owner the work that will result in the greatest 

 profit to him. Usually friction, hurry and confusion is a con- 

 fession that somewhere, at some time, there has been wanting 

 forethought, energy or means. Of course, much depends on 

 other things beside the sub-division of the farm, and yet, the 

 sub-divisions may have much to do in the success of its manage- 

 ment, the same as a well planned house has for the ease of 

 doing housework, or a well designed and ample factory build- 

 ing has for the rapidity and ease in carrying on its operations. 

 Maps of farm or garden, if used, are one of the best methods 

 of keeping original field records. It is a pictorial method, one 

 used when people first began to read and write, and which, 

 during the last few years has fast supplemented, and in many 

 places taken the place of, writing. The demands of life are now 



