MONTANA EXPERIMENT STATION 



the site for the home is that of proper protection of the grounds 

 from your own and from your neighbors' stock. Trees and shrubs 

 and garden vegetables planted upon the dry farm can be expected 

 to thrive only when given the best of care and protection. While 

 the trees and shrubs may need pruning and the orchard frequent 

 cultivation, cows and horses are poor pruners and hogs hardly fol- 

 low approved dry farm practices in such cultivating as they may 

 do. 



The fence should be high enough and strong enough to turn all 

 kinds of live stock, with the possible exception of chickens. It 

 should extend around the entire grounds and should be set out 

 far enough to prevent stock from 1 reaching the plants in any way. 

 As a rule the barnyard should be fenced off from the rest of the 

 grounds, especially if stock is allowed any freedom at all about the 

 barns. The one who tends the garden will usually realize the im- 

 portance of having it fenced, especially as a protection against the 

 chickens. Do not plant your home grounds and then build the 

 fence ; build the fence first. 



PLANNING THE HOME GROUNDS. 



Some attention should be given to planning, the yard for con- 

 venience. The house should be convenient to the orchard, the 

 garden, and the barnyard. But it should be in a yard of its own, 

 separate and distinct from the other portions of the grounds. It 

 should be far enough from the proposed wind-break so the snows 

 which drift inside the shelter will not be annoying about the house. 

 The barns should be located with the same thought in mind. 



The orchard and the fruit garden should be located where they 

 will be well protected b, the wind-break ; if they receive the drifting 

 snows, so much the better. Snow is the best of protection for 

 small fruits, and, if caught and held within the orchard, supplies 

 much needed moisture. The entrance may be planned to serve 

 equally well the house and the barn, or, better still, have a front 

 entrance to serve the house and a side entrance to handle the larger 

 part of the travel to the barn. 



The house should be located far enough from the road to pro- 

 a good foreground, we cannot make a good picture without a fore- 



