388 ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



86. Plans for a Farmstead. 



Make a plan, showing the arrangements of farm buildings as you 

 think they should be arranged on some farm. (For exercise on arrange- 

 ment of fields, see page 280.) 



86. Plans and Estimates for Farm Buildings. 



Make a plan for a small farm building, a bill of lumber and other 

 materials required to make it, and estimate the cost. 



87. Business Forms. 



Make out an order for goods, a contract with a hired man, a lease, 

 a note, a receipt. 



COLLATERAL READING 



Forest Service, Circular No. 159. The Future Use of Land in the 

 United States. 



Farmers' Bulletins Nos.: 



242. An Example of Model Farming. 



245. The Renovation of Worn-Out Soils. 



272. A Successful Hog and Seed Corn Farm. 



280. A Profitable Tenant Dairy Farm. 



299. Diversified Farming under the Plantation System. 



310. A Successful Alabama Diversified Farm. 



312. A Successful Southern Hay Farm. 



325. Small Farms in the Corn-Belt. 



326. Building Up a Run-Down Cotton Plantation. 

 337. Cropping Systems for New England Dairy Farms. 

 355. A Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm. 



347. The Repair of Farm Equipment. 

 62. Marketing Farm Produce. 

 126. Practical Suggestions for Farm Buildings. 



Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, Vol. I, pp. 133-322; Vol. IV, 

 pp. 215-239, and Index of all volumes. 



The Farmers' Business Hand- Book, by I. P. Roberts. 

 How to Choose a Farm, by T. F. Hunt. 

 Farm Management, by F. W. Card. 

 The Farmstead, by I. P. Roberts. 



