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move. In many more cases, it will pay to buy land so as 

 to get a good shaped area surrounding the farmstead. 



Unfortunately, it is difficult to make the necessary 

 sales and purchases in order to rearrange farms so that 

 they can be worked to the best advantage. Sometimes 

 such changes can be made. 



Nearly always some improvement can be made in 

 the arrangement of fields. Such changes can be made 



FIG. 84. Layout of a farm as it was in 1902. See Figure 85. 



gradually, and the necessary work done at odd times, so 

 that the expense will not be felt. 



In Figure 84 is seen the field arrangement on a New 

 York farm as it was when the present owner bought the 

 place in 1902. l The farm had been rented for some time, 

 and some of the fence lines had been allowed to grow up 

 to brush. Between fields 6 and 10, there was a brush 

 line about 8 feet wide, and about 65 loads of stone. There 

 was also about 1 acre of brush in field 10. Between fields 7 



1 Maps and data on this farm were furnished by C. E. Ladd. 



