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FARM DEVELOPMENT 



side lanes, and, at the outer end, with the lanes leading to 

 the pastures and other fenced fields of the farm. Though 

 this artery be very simple and inexpensive, yet it will save 

 many steps and make gentle treatment of the stock pos- 

 sible. Substantial fences may now be made so cheaply of 

 smooth woven wire that no stock farm should lack a handy 



arrangement of 

 paddocks with 

 lanes and gates. 

 Lawn, garden 

 and orchard. 

 The lawn, the 

 garden and the 

 orchard should 

 each be given 

 room in the orig- 

 inal plan of the 

 farmstead. The 

 orchard should 

 be so placed that 

 the air will not 

 remain quiet 

 among the trees 

 but will drain 

 out, thus tending 

 to reduce injury from bacterial and fungous diseases and 

 to make the trees less subject to injury from frost. A 

 northeast slope, with trees on the north but none on the 

 east, often best combines shelter from winter winds with 

 air drainage. In some cases it seems best not to surround 

 the plat chosen for an orchard with the grove, or else to 

 place the orchard on the north or east side of the grove. 

 Buildings for specialties. Buildings for propagating 

 plants, for manufacturing dairy products, for making 

 sugar, for drying fruit, for meats or other special 

 purposes, should be so placed as to be convenient. 



Figure 43A. Shows a map on which the crops grown on 

 each field for a given year (1911) are recorded, together with 

 a record of the yield of each crop, etc. It will be observed 

 that these are the crops prescribed for the year 1911 in the 

 rotations projected in Figure 42. 



