LESSON 36 
FARMSTEAD LAYOUT 
’,NE more lesson is here given to the subject of 
farmstead planning. In this lesson a purely the- 
- oretical layout is presented. This will enable the 
student to observe even more closely that in the 
two preceding lessons how the principles of land- 
scape gardening should be applied to the group- 
ing of farm buildings. 
Illustration 
The example here illustrated was worked out by Professor 
Phillip H. Elwood Jr., then of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege, now of Ohio State University. The area represented is prac- 
tically level land, with the public road at the north of the build- 
ings, an arrangement which is usually desirable in spite of popular 
prejudice to the contrary. 
The general plan of arrangement is that of a rectangle, as 
recommended by Mr. Pearse (page 148). The dwelling house closes 
the front of this rectangle. The main storage and stock barn stands 
on the opposite side of the quadrangle; while minor buildings close’ 
the eastern and western ends. 
It will be observed that the entire arrangement is somewhat 
more compact than the design for ““Welworth”’ shown on page 147. 
Space is economized especially in the grounds immediately con- 
tiguous to the dwelling house; the house is placed much closer to 
the road and the entrance drive much closer to the house. Such an 
arrangement seems to be more favored in the eastern states at the 
present time, whereas the larger front-yard as developed at ‘‘ Wel- 
worth’? seems to represent more nearly the popular ideal in the 
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