PLANNING THE FARM 



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Roads and lanes. These are mentioned in connec- 

 tion with the plan of the farmstead and the fields. The 

 public road, whether it forms a boundary of the farmstead 

 or is reached by a road or lane across the farm between 

 fields, should be 

 connected with 

 the dwelling, the 

 barns, the lanes 

 among the barn- 

 yards, and roads 

 reaching all the 

 fields. Much 

 time may be 

 saved by a con- 

 venient arrange- 

 ment of lanes 

 and gates among 

 the buildings 

 and yards. A 



day, Or even a Figure 42. Giving method of writing, in a simple map 



rvi/^tifli /~-F /~oi-<=k-Fii1 * tne farm - a rotation scheme showing the crops to be 

 montn, OI CareiUl grown in each field for a long series of years, in fact, a 

 _i^, permanent projection of a cropping plan for systematic 



planning may rotation in each field of each rotation series. The arrow 

 - shows the order of succession in which the six-year rotation 



Save years OI is begun with corn in the six twenty-acre fields and the three- 

 year rotation is begun with cultivated crops in the three 



needleSS WOrk ten-acre fields. A rotation suitable to the six twenty-acre 

 fields in the middle northwest is as follows: 1st year, corn; 



and WOrrv arm 2d year, wheat; 3d year, grass; 4th year, grass; 5th year, 

 A/.J an vi grasg (or grain) . 6th year g ra i n; thenj beginning again with 

 will Hr m 11 r Vi corn - repeat. By starting out with one field, as A, with 

 W11J ll u C II corn in 1909; fl e ld B in corn in 1910; field C in corn in 



f/^-nT-nt-^ TM-<~trir1 1911> etc - each fleld takes its regular place in the rotation 

 lUWdlU piuviu- course, giving annually 20 acres to corn, 20 to wheat, 60 

 r to grass and 20 to other small grains. A rotation suited to 



ing lOr a per ma- the three ten-acre plats is as follows: 1st year, cultivated 

 it. 1.4.1- crops; 2d year, grain; 3d year, clover. To show that the 



nent nealtny in- order of numbering or the order in which the fields occur 

 need not be followed in any regular way in deciding which 

 fleld shall first be planted to a given crop chosen to begin 

 the rotation, the three-year rotation is placed on fields 

 G, H and I in an older which does not seem regular on 

 paper, but might be the most natural order in which to 



terest in the 

 farm work. 



Paddocks and brin8 * h ^ fleld - s from ~ an old sy . stem - of c . r ppiK to the 



new rotation scheme. The arrow here also shows the course 

 of the rotation. 



barnyards. The 

 central feature of barnyards and paddocks should be a 

 lane communicating at one end, by means of gates, with 

 the stock doors of the barns, with paddocks, yards and 



