. An economic study of farm layout ... Farm buildings; Agriculture. An Economic Study of Farm Layout 471 stone fences, particularly in the soiitlieastern part of the State, are so wide and so high that the saving thru larger fields would not justify their removal unless the stones could be used for some such purpose. Stump and worm rail fences waste much land, harbor weeds and wood- chucks, and do not turn stock satisfactorily. Unless land is very cheap it will usually pay to replace such fences with wire. Brush and hedge fences (figs. 122 and 123) are the most wasteful of land of all fences f
. An economic study of farm layout ... Farm buildings; Agriculture. An Economic Study of Farm Layout 471 stone fences, particularly in the soiitlieastern part of the State, are so wide and so high that the saving thru larger fields would not justify their removal unless the stones could be used for some such purpose. Stump and worm rail fences waste much land, harbor weeds and wood- chucks, and do not turn stock satisfactorily. Unless land is very cheap it will usually pay to replace such fences with wire. Brush and hedge fences (figs. 122 and 123) are the most wasteful of land of all fences found on the farms studied. Neither of these fences. Fig. 122. an untrimmed hedge occupying a strip of land .3 rods wide where land IS worth $150 AN acre Every rod of this fence occupies nearly $3 worth of hind. The cost of clearing 60 rods of similar hedge on this farm was SO cents a rod has a place on any New York farm, but unfortunately both are expensive to eradicate. Hedge fences are expensive to trim, but more expensive to let go. They waste much land, harbor insect pests and woodchucks, and do not turn stock satisfactorily. On land worth $100 an acre, the land actually occupied on both sides of an average hedge fence would be worth 72 cents a rod. In addition to the land actually occupied, hedge fences injure the crop for a considerable distance on each 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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