. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . K; mill■ iiiiMWs fnlliiuiii In IMlJ .11 Ihc ill 1 11. .V nilalinii oil Ihitf leli-;(.■nil. fiiiiii l!i(i7. on hiihi (. on l>. sli.,u, tlir .iirjiinrnuiil .if ^i\- 1 PLANXixt; vnv: farm 113 strated. A
. Farm development; an introductory book in agriculture, including a discussion of soils, selecting & planning farms, subduing the fields, drainage, irrigation, roads, fences, together with introductory chapters concerning farm business, and the relations of general science to agriculture . K; mill■ iiiiMWs fnlliiuiii In IMlJ .11 Ihc ill 1 11. .V nilalinii oil Ihitf leli-;(.■nil. fiiiiii l!i(i7. on hiihi (. on l>. sli.,u, tlir .iirjiinrnuiil .if ^i\- 1 PLANXixt; vnv: farm 113 strated. A few illustrations of systematically arrangedplans for new farms and for the rearrangement of oldfarms are here given. Those who have becomeexpert in this kind of rural engineering in a given localityhave no serious trouble in using the farmers own knowl-edge of his soils and of the products he wishes to make,in rearranging and mapping any farm so that the ownercan conduct it under systematic crop rotations. Thiscannot be done at arms length, as by editors in theiroffices, but must be done on the ground, with the planof the farm, a knowledge of the farm and the farm busi-ness in all its details, in mind. Even then, the finaldecisions relat- ing to the n u m b e r of fields in the. //ay, . / Ka/ue pef Ae/^ ^ /■* ii Cosr per Mrre , Alcf income per t^cft 0 D 20 A< May , JS r. @ 4 4,/t. M 227. So ^ /hsfura^eiZCow4. /OOdafs ^S* meat ^o6u @7S^ ^3 - /6r(^pS 32 o. ■A3^?oya/ue fier A $ f7 3S /Vef /ncome per A 4 tO- Zt croppingscheme; thesequence o fcrops; specificplans, as forcatch crops;the place forfences; allmust be work-ed out by thefarmer, and much of thedrawing mustbe done by him or under his immediate he cannot, and more often he will not, follow aready-made plan or even a plan which does not compre-hend his own best thought. The work of rearrangingfence lines, placing lanes, and deciding upon the lengthof rotations and
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