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and prove one of the best of investments. Many interesting 

 games can also be had at little cost. 



The back yard. The back yard should be quite as 

 clean and attractive as the front yard. No refuse or litter, 

 chicken coops, garbage heaps or mud-holes should be tol- 

 erated. Closed garbage cans should be used, and every- 

 thing done away with that will attract flies or mosquitoes, 

 or be the breeding place for disease germs. 



Drainage. No farm house is complete without a 

 drain leading out through the basement and on to a cess- 

 pool some distance from the house. Cesspools can be con- 

 structed at almost no expense except for the labor, and so 

 made as not to endanger wells in the vicinity. 



4. Other Farm Buildings 



Much time and labor can be saved by a proper arrange- 

 ment and placing of farm buildings. While barns should 

 not be located too near the house, neither should they be 

 so far away to cause unnecessary steps in going back and 

 forth. 



Making a plan. Before barns, poultry houses, hog- 

 houses or corn cribs are erected a plan for the whole system 

 of buildings likely to be needed should be made. The dis- 

 tance of carrying feed, water and milk should be care- 

 fully considered, and all other conditions taken into account 

 in placing the structures. The buildings themselves should 

 be planned with the greatest convenience and economy of 

 labor in view. 



Barnyards. The appearance of a barnyard is one of 

 the best tests of a good farmer. The yard should, first of 

 all, be clean and free from filth. All low places that col- 

 lect pools of water should be filled. Manure should be 

 cleaned up and spread on the fields. No old machinery, 



