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FARM MANAGEMENT 



With the layout in Figure 79, it requires 122 rods less 

 fence to fence the entire farm. 



It is sometimes said that the farmstead should be on 

 the side nearest town. One bulletin has the contradictory 

 statements that the farmstead should be in the center of 

 the farm and should be on the corner nearest town. 



For practically any conditions, a comparison of the 

 time lost by having farther to go to town with the time 

 lost by having the fields farther away, results in a decided 

 advantage for locating as near the center of the farm as 

 possible and yet remain on the highway. Even a retail 

 milk farm that must send a load to town every day saves 

 time by locating near the fields, rather than near town. 



TABLE 77. RELATION OF FARM LAYOUT TO DISTANCE TO 



FIELDS 1 



1 Farmstead, minor crops, paddocks, 25 acres on 640-acre farm, and 

 6j acres on 160-acre farm. Public roads 4 rods wide on two sides of 

 each parcel of land for 160 acres. Road on all sides of each parcel for 640 

 acres in Figures 78 and 79, and on three sides of each parcel in Figures 80 

 and 81. 



Barn 10 rods from the road on 160 acres and 20 rods on 640 acres. 

 Reducing the farmstead, etc., or moving the barn nearer the road, makes 

 the difference a little more in favor of the farms with land on both sides 

 of the road. 



