FARMSTEAD GROUP 
be found that in front and at the side of the house opposite from the 
farm buildings a lawn can be established of reasonable size. Between 
the highway and the barn and extending parallel to the highway an 
open area is shown which has its best use as a show pasture. It 
not only gives a most desirable foreground to the buildings, but it 
also may act as a living bulletin board with salable live stock pas- 
tured there, either for sale or advertising value to be observed by 
travelers along the highway. 
Stock yards adjacent to the barn and hog barn should be of 
sufficient size to care for the stock that is to use them. They should 
be of easy access, convenient in feeding, and with convenient easy 
operating gates opening from one to another. A small farm orchard 
near the machine shed and reasonably close to the poultry house is 
very desirable. A farm vegetable garden should be located near the 
house with one entrance gate leading directly from the door-yard. 
A few well placed permanent shade trees should be planted near 
the house in order to shade it and the lawn but not to obscure de- 
sirable views of the highway. A permanent evergreen windbreak 
protecting the sides of the farmstead from the prevailing winds is 
always desirable. 
In general, farm buildings should be located so their long axis 
runs north and south in order to give the best ventilation and san- 
itation by the sun shining on either side at different times of 
the day. 
The following suggestions should be kept in mind as necessary 
considerations in planning any farmstead: 
1. Entrance drive should strike at some good building. 
2. House itself should be placed so that one room at least will 
command the view of the entire barn-yard. 
3. Barn-yard group should be farther away from the road than 
house group. 
4, Barn-yard group should be rectangular in form, with build- 
ings arranged around a court with their backs opening into the 
several yards. 
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