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time. We can get to work 

 quicker in the field, and work 

 longer. Only for a few min- 

 utes, but a few minutes every 

 day is something. We thought 

 of this, and located the barn 

 with this in view. Some object 

 to having a barn one side of 

 the road, and house the other. I 

 like it. Of course, the barn was 

 not built directly opposite, so as to 

 shut off the view. And, of course, it 

 makes a difference how the barn is 

 kept. But of that in another chapter. 

 The location of the buildings has 

 much to do with the successful man- 

 agement of a farm. For example, I 

 have a friend who has 100 acres of 

 land, in a strip a mile long, and the 

 buildings at one end. This is very 

 bad. There is a constant and serious 

 necessary loss here in managing this 

 farm. The best he can do is to pas- 

 ture the back half, and then he has a 

 long lane of waste land, practically, 

 to get his cattle up, and many of his 

 crops and much of his manure must 

 be drawn a long distance. If his build- 

 ings could be 80 rods back it would 

 help greatly, if there was only a road 

 there to let him out. He has some 

 long rows for tillage, but they are 

 most too long for manure hauling and 

 drawing in crops 



Our permanent pasture is back 

 quite a ways from the barn, but we 

 have no lane, as all the stock we keep 

 we can lead up a narrow road that is 

 left through the cultivated field. I will 

 give you a plan of our little farm as 

 nearly as I can draw it. You can see 

 then the strips, numbered, on which 

 the crops given in a previous chapter 

 were grown. The dotted lines, of 

 course, do not represent fences, but 

 only imaginary lines. Remember, our 

 farm was divided the best we could 

 under the circumstances, not as I would 



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No.2. 



6 A. 



No. 3. 



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No. I. 



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Plan of Farm. 



