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ed to develop spreadingr heads. They 

 will thus afford a good deal of shel- 

 ter and yet not obstruct the view 

 from the lawn. Instead of the row, 

 groups of trees, arranged irregu- 

 larly and surrounded with shrubs, 

 might be substituted for the single 

 row of standards. 



Two entrances are arranged to the 

 premises. Stock will be driven out 

 and in at times and might damage 

 the lawn and shrubs if a second one 

 were not provided. The curved 

 house entrance is in accordance with 

 modern lines of landscape art, and 

 so are the irregular groups of shrubs 

 set here and there bordering the 

 lawn. There is grass space enough 

 for a tennis court. 



A turning place is provided, as it 

 is not always convenient to have rigs 

 with callers coming into the farm 

 yard. If the house were further 

 back from the road the turn could 

 have been in front but this would 

 have curtailed the lawn space. The 

 turn is convenient also for delivering 

 coal to the basement of the house. 



The garden and orchard is con- 

 venient to the house and of a fair 

 size and yet closed off from the 

 yard. 



The barn is far enough from the 

 plantation to be clear of snowdrifts 

 and yet close enough to the small 

 plantations to quickly have the bene- 

 fit of its shelter from the prevailing 

 winds. The barn yard is about three 

 or four acres in extent, affording 

 plenty of room for additional build- 

 ings, poultry and hog runs, and so 

 on, whenever necessary. 



While it is not intended that this 

 plan should be looked upon as a 

 model, it covers most of the points 

 that should be considered when lay- 

 ing out the farm grounds. 



A Few Suggestions. 



Everything should be arranged as 

 conveniently as possible, as for in- 

 stance the curve of the entrance to 

 the house should always be towards 

 the town or wherever the most traf- 

 fic is, and the house should always 



be nearer the town than the other 

 buildings so that strangers approach- 

 ing the place will see the most at- 

 tractive part first. 



The arrangement of the shrubs 

 round the lawn should be irregular 

 and they should be in groups of 

 varying size, and plenty of them 

 should be used, the plants being no 

 wider than four feet from each other. 

 This is the only way to obtain that 

 natural massed effect which is so 

 pleasing. 



Witli a little care and study of the 

 different shrubs, very fine results 

 may be obtained and there is no rea- 

 son why any farmer should not, in 

 a very few years, have as well ar- 

 ranged and attractive a home as 

 any city man. 



Meantime when laying out the per- 

 manent premises, allow lots of room 

 for expansion ; lay the foundations 

 broad and deep; the details may, if 

 necessary, be worked out later. 



Is a Snow-trap Advisable? 



Sometimes it is thought necessary 

 to have a narrow strip — say, a row 

 or two of willows — outside the main 

 plantation to act as a snow-trap and 

 prevent damage from snow-drift in 

 the plantations. Such damage, how- 

 ever, does not often occur, and the 

 recovery of the broken trees usually 

 takes place readily enough. Besides, 

 in practice it has been found that 

 after a few years the outer willow 

 belt is neglected and gets choked up 

 with grass, and very soon there is 

 only a bush here and there to be 

 seen. 



Over the greater portion of Sask- 

 atchewan and Southern Alberta 

 where the snow fall is lighter, it is 

 a question if much benefit is to be 

 derived from such snow-traps. 



The Penobscot Lumber Co., whose head- 

 quarters are in Brunswick, Maine, is in- 

 augurating a system of planting on their 

 limits, and will establish nurseries at Sal- 

 mon Eiver and Marin's Head, N.B., and 

 Cookshire, P.Q. Mr. Eobt. Connelly, 

 manager of the company, has the matter 

 in charge. 



