. An economic study of farm layout .. . Fig. 127. plan of the farm shown in figure 120, illustrating how a lane could be run from the barnyard to the pasture, between fields a and b Such a lane would save much time, besides greatly lessening the danger of injury to the cattle by automobiles necting the barnyard with the day pasture, is shown in figure 127. Some grain is fed to the cows all summer on this farm, and with such a lane very few trips would be required to get the cows. A lane of this width would occupy acres of crop land worth .S60 an acre. Interest at 6 per cent on acres of
. An economic study of farm layout .. . Fig. 127. plan of the farm shown in figure 120, illustrating how a lane could be run from the barnyard to the pasture, between fields a and b Such a lane would save much time, besides greatly lessening the danger of injury to the cattle by automobiles necting the barnyard with the day pasture, is shown in figure 127. Some grain is fed to the cows all summer on this farm, and with such a lane very few trips would be required to get the cows. A lane of this width would occupy acres of crop land worth .S60 an acre. Interest at 6 per cent on acres of $60 land would amount to $ a year. This land would not be wasted but would furnish considerable pasture. The length of good fence necessary for fencing tliis lane would be 2G4 rods. The dilapidated stone wall more than half a rod wide wliich separates fields A and B would not make a satis- factory lane fence, and there- fore two new fences would be necessary. Since this lane would be used only by cattle, a four-strantl barbed wire fence would l^e satisfactory. The annual cost of maintain- ing such a fence in 1918 would have been about $18. ITsing the figures given, the cost of land and fence for tliis lane would be about $30 a year. In this case a lane would effect a saving above
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