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that your unprofitable expense is forever peeping 

 out in the niggling nature of your plans field by 

 field, hedge by hedge, drain by drain, a tank here, 

 a cow-house there you have waddled through your 

 Farm, denying your better instincts, resisting the 

 true economy which would have prompted a com- 

 plete and comprehensive plan that looks the whole 

 matter in the face at once ; as though a man should 

 build a mansion, room by room, and paint and fur- 

 nish and roof them in, one by one, solemnly count- 

 ing the cost all the way, and shutting his eyes to the 

 conviction that the next room and the next story, 

 must come at last, and that one roof, one plan, one 

 outlay, the cheapest because the most compendious, 

 might have covered all, and saved the worry and 

 mortification of jobs wwdone, arrangements altered, 

 and blunders deplored. 



Architects are expensive things it is true but 

 still the comprehensive plan is the cheapest in the 

 end. "We want Farm- Architects. Not (Heaven 

 help us ! ) that we want more expense in farming, or 

 in farm buildings, but a kind of knowledge in the 

 whole laying out of a farm, analogous to that of the 

 architect who plans a building. The Landlord, the 

 Tenant, the Bricklayer, the Carpenter, the "Workmen, 

 and last not least, the gaping Neighbor each has 



