FARM LAYOUT 



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FIG. 87. Clearing up a fence and brush 

 line so that two fields may be worked 

 together. 



On another farm where cost accounts were kept, it 

 required 183 man hours and 102 horse hours to clear and 

 plow a hedgerow 121 rods long. About half of it was 

 small brush. The other half was thorn-apple, brush, and 

 some fairly large trees. 

 There were also about 

 20 loads of stone. At 

 20 cents an hour for 

 labor and 30 cents for 

 a team, this work cost 

 $51.90, or 43 cents per 

 rod. About 90 square 

 rods of land were 

 gained, worth $70 per 

 acre, or $39. The real 

 cost of the improve- 

 ment was. therefore, 



only about $13. The time saved in working the larger 

 field would pay this cost in a year or two. 



Another hedgerow on this farm, that was probably 

 35 years old and contained some large trees and more stone, 

 cost 80 cents a rod. The land gained paid about half the 

 cost. 



On this same farm, an old apple orchard was removed. 

 The trees were about 75 years old and a foot and a half in 

 diameter. This work required 8 hours of man labor and 

 4 hours of horse labor per tree. About 2 pounds of dyna- 

 mite were used per tree. The labor, dynamite, fuse, and 

 caps cost $2.59 per tree. 



An enlarged view of one of the farms in Figure 82 is 

 in Fig. 88. This is a farm of 100 acres and, except for 

 the public road, it could all be worked in one field. There 

 are no physical obstacles. Fields 9 and 12 were the first 



