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ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE 



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if one does not like the paddock as planned. On the other 



side of the house is the garden. It is near the house where 



the women can easily get to it for fresh vegetables and 



small fruit. 



Convenience. — The orchard and poultry house are just 



back of the garden, also to accommodate the housekeeper. 



The hog house and yard are farthest away from the house, 



because these are most 

 likely to be objection- 

 able. The comcrib is 

 near the hog house, be- 

 cause most of the corn 

 is likely to be fed to the 

 hogs. It is also near one 

 of the cattle yards, con- 

 venient to feed to the 

 cattle, if desired. Next 

 to this is the granary, 

 which is also near the 

 main barn, so that grain 

 for feeding hogs or the 

 stock in the bam may 



_. ,^o A i«n 4 .i,c * be near where it will be 



Figure 138. — A IbO-acre farm with 8-acre farm- , rni- • i- 



stead facing east. Note communication of USed. 1 116 mam Dam IS 



wfth'smSifidids^ large fields and hog yards next and directly in front 



of one of the drives to 

 the main highway. This gives the barn a prominent 

 place, and makes it convenient in driving to or from the 

 bam. 



Saying Steps. — The water trough is placed where the 

 stock in the yard can reach it, and also where horses taken 

 out at the front of the barn can also be watered without 

 going out of or into the cattle yard; that is, it extends on 

 both sides of the fence. Beyond the water trough is the 

 machine shed. A team will be taken out of the barn, 

 watered, hitched to a wagon or machine in the shed, and 

 then proceed to the field without going back and forth over 

 the same ground, as would be necessary were the machine 

 shed on one side of the barn and the water trough on the 

 other side. The same saving occurs in coming from the 



