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FARM DEVELOPMENT 



way. In some cases old farmsteads should be aban- 

 doned and new ones developed in locations more suitable 

 as to topography and soil, and in easier reach of schools, 

 churches, towns and neighbors. 



Other timber belts on parts of the farm not adjacent 

 to the buildings are often desirable on prairie farms, and 



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Figure 41. Plan of a. 160-acre farm with six twenty-acre fields and 

 three ten-acre fields, while ten acres are devoted to the farmstead. The 

 lane LL, with its branch X, connects the public highway, the barn build- 

 ings, the paddocks, and all the fields with each other. The plan is so 

 made that all the fields may eventually be fenced and used under two 

 systems of crop rotation as shown more in detail in Figure 42; on the six 

 larger fields, A to E, is a six-year rotation; on the three smaller fields, G, 

 H, I, is a three-year rotation. 



efforts should be made to preserve carefully some of the 

 best areas of woods on timbered farms; and to manage 

 properly under a good plan of forest cropping the growth 

 of timber on sandy, rough or stony lands, where lumber, 

 fuel, paper, pulp or other forest crop, may pay better 

 than ordinary grain crops, or pastures, or hay. 



