NEW ENGLAND FARM GROUP 
The entire arrangement of buildings is exceedingly compact, 
thus securing some economies in construction and much more im- 
portant economies in handling the daily farm chores. 
There are some drawbacks to this very compact arrangement. 
The ones usually mentioned are first the additional risk of fire: 
if a fire starts in one building it is almost certain to carry off the en- 
tire group. A second objection is that the house is too close to the 
barn, so that flies and the barn smells cause discomfort in the dwell- 
ing house. The latter objection, however, may be as readily over- 
come in this grouping as in any other. 
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Fic. 84. View rrom tHe Soura — CompaRE WITH PLAN 
Observation 
It will be noticed that the primary line of buildings in this case 
has been returned toward the south from the barn, and that the 
latest poultry house even returns slightly westward, thus breaking 
somewhat the original linear arrangement and approximating the 
quadrangular group recommended and illustrated in Lesson 34. 
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