FARMSTEAD LAYOUT 
It is important to compare this design in detail with the others 
already presented in Lessons 34 and 35 and to consider critically 
the validity of each suggestion offered. For example, are the milk 
and cream rooms placed in the most advantageous position? Is 
the woodshed too far from the house? Are the laundry and laundry 
yard too far from the house? Is the area marked “‘play lawn’’ and 
separated from the barn-yard by a hedge a practical feature? Would 
it be better to relegate the vegetable garden to another location on 
the farm where it could be cultivated with a horse cultivator? 
The student should also undertake for himself to work out 
original designs in this quadrangular method. This may be done 
first for purely imaginary grounds, but it is better finally to make 
such designs for given farms where the topography can be surveyed 
and all the conditions known. 
Readings 
Roserts, The Farmstead, Chap. VI. 
Davipson, Agricultural Engineering, Chap. 62. 
WarreEN, Farm Management, pp. 388-401. 
U. S. Dept. Agri. Farmers’ Bulletin, 1132. Washington, 1920. 
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