TKEE-PLAI^^TING ON" PRAIRIES. 



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may often be desirable to change the shape of the land 

 enclosed, but in the great majority of prairie farms a plan 

 similar to this would work out to good advantage and the 

 area enclosed by windbreaks could often be increased to 

 ten acres to good advantage. 



A rule that should be carefully followed in all tree plant- 

 ings is that the view from the most commonly used rooms 



Hichway 



Fig. 7. — vSuggestion in detail for laving out the grounds about the 

 buildings on a prairie farm. Highway on south, size 30X37 rods, 

 enclosing five acres; windbreak on north and west five rods wide. 

 Two rows of trees next to highway. Rows of trees indicated. 



of anj^thing that is suggestive of pleasant associations or 

 that is especially interesting or entertaining should not be 

 cut off. Under this head would be included the view from 

 the living-room windows, of the travelled wagon-road or 

 perhaps of the railroad, of the neighboring houses or per- 

 haps a near-by lake, and of the important fields on the farm, 



