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ceeded on too large a scale in the latter case you 

 mostly find, such at least was my discovery that 

 your unprofitable expense is for ever peeping out in 

 the niggling nature of your plans field by field, 

 hedge by hedge, drain by drain, a tank here, a cow- 

 house there you have waddled through your Farm, 

 denying your better instincts, resisting the true 

 economy which would have prompted a complete 

 and comprehensive plan that looks the whole matter 

 in the face at once : as though a man should build a 

 mansion room by room, and paint and furnish and 

 roof them in, one by one, solemnly counting the cost 

 all the way, and shutting his eyes to the conviction 

 that the next room and the next story, must come 

 at last, and that one roof, one plan, one outlay, 

 the cheapest because the most compendious, might 

 have covered all, and saved the worry and mortifi- 

 cation of jobs undone, arrangements altered and 

 blunders deplored. 



Architects are expensive things it is true but 

 still the comprehensive plan is the cheapest in the 

 end. We want Farm-architects. Not (Heaven 

 help us ! ) that we want more expense in farming, or 

 in farm buildings, but a kind of knowledge in the 

 whole laying out of a farm, analogous to that of the 



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