PLANNING: 1'HE 7ARM 



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of pure-bred animals and pedigreed seeds, people will 

 pay better prices for something secured at a distance 

 from their homes. But most farmers must win out by 

 doing ordinary farming very well. The great staple 

 crops and the great classes of live stock are the stay of 

 the farming business, and producing them is a remunera- 

 tive business if well conducted. 



THE FARMSTEAD 



Location. After taking a general view of the farm, 



the location of the central feature should be decided 



; _ ,. upon. The farm- 



stead must be so 

 placed as to 

 have a good 

 site and be in 

 easy communi- 

 cation with all 

 other parts of 

 the farm. See 

 sites of farm- 

 steads in Figures 

 41 to 43 F. 



Site of the 

 farmstead. The 

 farmstead should 

 be proportionate 



in Size tO the 

 r j , ,1 



iarm and tO the 

 r . 



farm DUSinCSS. 



and it ITiaV be 



J 



definite in its 

 outline on at least two sides. So locating the 

 farmstead that it may be enlarged in one or two 

 directions is sometimes an advantage, as when the 

 farm is enlarged by the purchase of adjoining tracts. 



Fig 37. General plan for a farmstead, with road on 

 the north; with windbreak, orchard and gardens; and with 

 buildings, lanes and paddocks or small fields handily ai- 

 ranged beside each barn: I, house; II, horse barn; 

 Ill, poultry house; IV, cow barn. Tne south half of the 

 small field beside the horse barn could be used for swine 

 with a building near the central lane, with such division 

 into lots as may be required for the horses and hogs. 



