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fields cleared. They are a little drier and warmer soils 

 than the remainder of the farm. They happened to be 



FIG. 90. Layout of a farm in a hilly country. 



laid out cornerwise of the farm. This fact seems to have 

 determined the layout of all the other fields. For seventy 

 years, these small, irregular fields have continued, because 

 in any particular year 

 it was easier to let 

 them alone than to 

 change. Figure 89 

 shows how such a 

 farm would look if 

 rearranged for con- 

 venience. This farm 

 is so easy to rearrange 

 that a few years would 

 pay the entire cost of 



making the change. FIG. 91. Showing how the farm in Figure 

 With the old arrange- 90 could be combined with a neighbor's 

 farm to make a fairly good layout. 



ment, to plow all the 



fields in this farm with a 14-inch plow required 12,514 

 turns at the ends of fields. The new arrangement requires 

 5270 turns. 



