Beautifying the Farmstead. 



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ligently to offer suggestions, it is desirable that some memoranda 

 be put upon paper. The more complete this is and the more care- 

 fully it is worked out, the less is the likelihood of unexpected diffi- 

 culties arising as the 

 work progresses. It 

 is appropriate to in- 

 clude features that 

 may not be carried 

 out for several years 

 (fig. 9), so these im- 

 provements can be 

 made when the time 

 comes without inter- 

 fering with other fea- 

 tures of the plan. 



When an established 

 place is to be im- 

 proved is should be 

 studied in the same 



way as a new place, FIG. 7. Undesirable arrangement of an approach to a 

 forgetting all roads. farmstead. Compare with figure S. 



and structures, except, possibly, the largest and most expensive build- 

 ings. In making the first studies, even these should not be assumed to 



be incapable of being 

 moved or altered. 

 Then plans should 

 be made which incor- 

 porate the buildings 

 as they exist. If the 

 last plans made are 

 not as satisfactory as 

 the original ones, al- 

 terations should be 

 considered until a 

 practical compromise 

 is evolved, even 

 though it require 

 changes in perma- 

 nent features, such as 

 roads and buildings. 

 In planning a new 

 place the first thing 

 to be considered is the approximate location of the principal build- 

 ings, with the space they should have about them and the re- 

 lation of that space and of the buildings to one another. Then 



FIG. 8. A revised design for an approach to the farm- 

 stt-nd shown in figure 7. 



