An economic study of farm layout .. economicstudyoff00myer Year: 1920 420 W. 1. Myeu« . Ftiriii fields are often smaller than is either necessary or desirable. On many farms, little attention has been i)aid to the enlarging of fields to ]x>rniit more effective use of labor and machinery. The crop area is still cut. up into small fields by the original stone rows or fences built when the land was cleared, because it is easier in any one year to farm around Fig. .S2. an example of patch farming The crop land was fainifil in twenty-four fields averaging acres each. There were three pa
An economic study of farm layout .. economicstudyoff00myer Year: 1920 420 W. 1. Myeu« . Ftiriii fields are often smaller than is either necessary or desirable. On many farms, little attention has been i)aid to the enlarging of fields to ]x>rniit more effective use of labor and machinery. The crop area is still cut. up into small fields by the original stone rows or fences built when the land was cleared, because it is easier in any one year to farm around Fig. .S2. an example of patch farming The crop land was fainifil in twenty-four fields averaging acres each. There were three patches of corn, five of oats, one of jjotatoes, one of buckwheat, and fourteen of hay on this farm in 1914. There were few obstacles to prevent the enlarging of the fields, and this has been done since the map was made Farm area, 212 afrcs Average size of farmed fields, acres these <)l)structions th;ui to remove them. Furthermore, there are con- stant forces tending toward smaller fields. Perhaps the seeding on part of a meadow fails. The patch is plowed up, and thereafter is often farmcHl as a sei)arate field. A drought may prevent planting the entire field to the desired ciop. The farms included in this investigation average sligiitly less 1li;iii 100 a,cies of general crop land (other than fruit) to the farm,
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