. An economic study of farm layout ... Farm buildings; Agriculture. 468 W. I. Myers TABLE 17. Relation of Size of Farms to Crop Land Occupied by Fences Number of farms Average size of farms (acres) Crop land occupied by fences Size of farms (acres) Per farm (acres) Per cent of farm area Per cent of crop land other than fruit Less than 100 13 20 20 100-174 175 or more Total 53 '"173^4 " "l92 I'i * A\' .js_ IlK^ > Mt'A Fig. 120. a woven wire fence hk i \\ i kn two cornfields Even under tlio most, favorabl
. An economic study of farm layout ... Farm buildings; Agriculture. 468 W. I. Myers TABLE 17. Relation of Size of Farms to Crop Land Occupied by Fences Number of farms Average size of farms (acres) Crop land occupied by fences Size of farms (acres) Per farm (acres) Per cent of farm area Per cent of crop land other than fruit Less than 100 13 20 20 100-174 175 or more Total 53 '"173^4 " "l92 I'i * A\' .js_ IlK^ > Mt'A Fig. 120. a woven wire fence hk i \\ i kn two cornfields Even under tlio most, favorable eonditions, fences make untillahle a considerable strip of ground. This wire fence occujiies a strip of land li feet wide practically no land; but with a fence separating two general crop fields, the width of the strip of land made untillahle, as shown by table 18, would be doubled, and the lunnber of rods of fence required to waste one acre of land would be one-half of that given in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Myers, William Irving, 1891-. [Ithaca
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