PLANNING THE FARM 



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strated. A few illustrations of systematically arranged 

 plans for new farms and for the rearrangement of old 

 farms are here given. Those who have become 

 expert in this kind of rural engineering in a given locality 

 have no serious trouble in using the farmer's own knowl- 

 edge of his soils and of the products he wishes to make, 

 in rearranging and mapping any farm so that the owner 

 can conduct it under systematic crop rotations. This 

 cannot be done at arm's length, as by editors in their 

 offices, but must be done on " the ground," with the plan 

 of the farm, a knowledge of the farm and the farm busi- 

 ness in all its details, in mind. Even then, the final 

 decisions relat- 

 ing to the 

 number of 

 fields in the 

 cropping 

 scheme ; the 

 sequence o f 

 crops ; specific 

 plans, as for 

 catch crops ; 

 the place for 

 fences; all 

 must be work- 

 ed out by the 

 farmer, and 

 much of the 

 drawing must 

 be done by him or under his immediate supervision. 

 Often he cannot, and more often he will not, follow a 

 ready-made plan or even a plan which does not compre- 

 hend his own best thought. The work of rearranging 

 fence lines, placing lanes, and deciding upon the length 

 of rotations and the crops to be included in each series 

 of fields, requires some skill. A few of the general prin- 



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Figure 43F. Harlan Farm, 

 records of crops for 1910. 



Annual ledger map showing 



