36 BULLETIN 592, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Plant Industry Bulletin 102, Part 3. Articles in the following Yearbooks: 
1905, Diversified Farming in the Cotton Belt; 1907, Cropping Systems for Stock 
Farms; 1911, Kotations in the Corn Belt. Diversified Farming under the Plantation 
System, Farmers' Bulletin 299. 
Lesson 29. — Planning the Farm and Farmstead. 
1. Need of careful planning. 
2. Size of farms. 
3. Eliminating waste land. 
Special reference. — Waste Land and Wasted Land on Farms, Farmers' Bulletin 745. 
Lesson 30. — Planning the Farm and Farmstead — Continued. 
1. Size and shape of fields. 
2. Relation of field to farmstead. 
Lesson 31. — Planning the Farm and Farmstead — Continued. 
1. Relation of farms to highways. 
2. Laying out the farm. 
Special reference. — A Model Farm, Yearbook, 1903. 
Lesson 32. — Planning the Farm and Farmstead — Continued. 
1. The farm house. 
2. Other farm buildings. 
3. Arrangement of buildings. 
Exercises 7-10. — Drafting Farm Plans. 
Four double periods should be spent in drafting and in a critical 
examination of farm plans by the students. Such plans' should 
include the home farms of the students and ideal plans of such types 
of farms as the individual students have a special interest in. The 
plans should be drawn to scale and traced with ink. Such a grade 
of work should be required that the students will desire to keep the 
plans. 
Lesson 33. — Replanning Problems. 
1. A study of replanned farms. 
Lesson 34. — Replanning Problems — Continued. 
1. Replanning the farmstead. 
2. Remodeling of buildings. 
Lesson 35. — Replanning Problems — Continued. 
1. Rearrangement of local farms. 
2. Rearrangement of local farmsteads. 
Exercises 11-14.— -Replanning Problems. 
After the students have had general practice in making farm plans 
four double periods may be spent profitably in replanning farms and 
farmsteads of the community. 
Special reference. — Replanning a Farm for Profit, Farmers' Bulletin 370. 
Lesson 36. — Farm Labor. 
1. Why there is a labor problem. 
2. Kinds of farm labor. 
3. The tenant problems. 
