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ing places for noxious weeds into productive land upon which the 

 living fence posts grow into a merchantable product. 



Such a plan as this fixes the boundaries of the fields, locates the 

 private lanes, and, in fact, forms the skeleton of any future system of 

 farm management that may be applied to this farm. 



A MODEL PRAIRIE FARM PLAN. 



In order to illustrate a model prairie farm plan made in accordance 

 with sound principles of forestry, fig. 2 has been prepared. This 



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Fig. 2. — Ideal plan of the four quarters of a section with location of forest and wind- 

 break plantations — suited to the prairies of Kansas and Oklahoma. 



farm plan is applicable to a large region in the prairies of the Middle 

 West, where windbreaks are necessary to the full development of the 

 country. It assumes that the land is of uniform condition of soil, 

 and has been surveyed by the rectangular system adopted by the 

 Government. The public roads are supposed to be located on the 

 section lines. The application of this model to a country with its 



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