LESSONS IN AGRICULTURE 

 A YEAR ON THE FARM 



SEPTEMBER 



LESSON I 



SELECTING AND LAYING OUT THE FARM 



A forty-acre farm. Let us suppose that it is the 

 first day of September, and that we have moved into a 

 new home upon a forty-acre farm. Our farm is square 

 80 rods by 80 rods and the buildings are located at 

 one corner of it. We shall do general farming. Our 

 market is five miles away, and we have good roads. The 

 farm is level, with the exception of a V-shaped valley 

 extending across it from north to south, dividing the 

 farm into two nearly equal parts. This valley furnishes 

 excellent drainage facilities and an abundance of good 

 spring water throughout the year. The soil of our 

 farm is a rich, sandy loam for the most part, above a 

 clay subsoil, and is in good physical condition. The 

 fields are free from stumps, stones and waste places. 



There is an orchard of five acres, a wood-lot of five 

 acres, and the rest of the farm, with the exception of 

 the valley running through it, is tillable. 



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