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permanent portion of the capital stock. The outbuild- 

 ings, such as woodshed, ice house, etc., may often be 

 utilized by building them near together, to inclose or 

 shelter a court or yard in which the wood cutting and 

 many other outdoor duties may be performed in com- 

 fort, even on cold days. 



The barn buildings. The buildings for animals and 

 feedstuff s should not be too near the residence, because 



of the odors, 

 and the litter 

 which is 

 usually scat- 

 tered about at 

 harvest time. 

 Neither should 

 the distance be 

 too great, es- 

 pecially in cold, 

 windy countries, 

 where the 

 numerous daily 

 trips between 

 the house and 

 barns should 

 not be unneces- 

 sarily long. 

 There are many 

 arguments for 

 having one large barn and centering there the live stock 

 and their foods. In developing a farm, however, the 

 means with which to erect buildings are not earned at 

 a bound, and, as a rule, it is necessary to erect one build- 

 ing at a time. It is not a bad plan, as it can be afforded, 

 to build well a separate building for each class of live 

 stock. The barns, machinery sheds, and other sheds and 

 granaries may often be used to inclose yards, in 



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Figure 43C. Olson Farm. Reorganized plan. 



NOTE. Five-year rotation on five twenty-acre fields: First 

 year, wheat; second year, grass; third year, grass; fourth 

 year, grain; fifth year, corn. 



Four-year rotation on four fields of five and six acres each: 

 First year, corn; second year, wheat; third year, clover; 

 fourth year, plots of annual pasturage and soiling crops, to 

 be used with movable fences for separately fencing each por- 

 tion as ready for pasturing. 



