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of water, I would dig a large, deep well in the centre of the 

 farm, and erect a wind wheel for pumping the water ; and here 

 I would locate the buildings, and would lay out a lane each way 

 from the centre of the farm, north, south, east, and west, so that 

 cattle could go to and come from any field to the water without 

 crossing another field. The land appropriated to lanes would 

 produce pasture, and therefore would not be useless. If it were 

 only " the fashion" to have the buildings of a farm located near 

 the centre of it, the inconveniences arising from having the build 

 ings located entirely at one side of it would seem almost intoler 

 able. It will require no more land for the sites of buildings, and 

 for pleasure grounds and yards, in the centre of a farm, than would 

 be occupied near the borders of the highway. 



4. For the arrangement and disposition of buildings, and for 

 plans of dwelling-houses, and plans of out-buildings as a chapter 

 of proper length on that subject would swell this Treatise far 

 beyond its prescribed limits young farmers who are interested 

 in this subject, will find all that the most fastidious can desire on 

 this subject, in works devoted to that subject. 



PLOTTING THE FARM AND LAYING OUT THE FIELDS. 



5. Every farmer should draw a Plan of his farm on a large 

 sheet of drawing-paper, which may be inclosed in a wooden 

 frame, or it may be delineated on a large board, neatly planed. 

 Let the Deed of a farm be taken to a good surveyor, who has 

 the proper instruments, and he will be able to delineate the shape 

 of any farm, with the different distances of a proper proportion to 

 each other, with the outside lines running at the same angle in 

 the plan that* they do on the farm. The larger the plan is, the 

 better it will be. The next step will be, to lay out the farm into 

 fields of the most convenient shape and size. If the farm is a 

 large one, the fields may be proportionately large ; but if the 

 farm is small, and the proprietor designs to keep a limited num 

 ber of cattle, or animals of any kind, the fields must be small. 

 It should always be the aim, in dividing a farm into fields, by 

 fences, to have the boundaries of each field run about at right 



