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PLANNING THE FARMSTEAD.
M. C. BETTS and W. it. HUMPHRIES,
Division of Rural Enginceerin, Bureau of Public Roads.
CONTENTS.
Page. Page.
The farmstead--------------4 Arranging the buildings_ 12
Planning the farmstead----------- 5 Type of farming--- ---------_ 12
Selecting the site------------- 5 Routing of work---__ ---___- _ 12
Location with respect to farm 6 The plan on paper__---- - __--13
Elevation and drainage------- 9 Description of four farmstead plans_ 14
Water supply-------------- 9 Farmstead east of highway-- 14
Nature of soil_---- - _ 10 Farmstead west of highway___ 20
Orientation--_____ --______ 10 Farmstead north of highway__ 22
Prevailing breezes--_--_---- - 11 Farmstead south of highway___ 24
FARMING is a business, just as is the manufacture of automo-
biles or any other industrial activity. The successful farmer must
be a good manager, and the better his management the greater his
success. While a good manager may accomplish much with poor
equipment, he can do much more if his plant and equipment are
properly designed and arranged.
Under existing economic conditions, namely, the increasing price
of land, equipment, machinery, etc., and the scarcity and high price
of labor, it is necessary to increase the output while maintaining
the same unit cost of production, or to lower the cost of production,
in order to secure an adequate return upon capital invested in
farms under normal conditions of supply and demand. If a lower-
ing of cost and increased production can be secured at the same
time, so much the better.
In most manufacturing lines, and in agriculture as well, quality is
as productive of return as is quantity; an improvement in work-
ing conditions which permits an increase in the volume of work
accomplished may perhaps be utilized to secure an improvement
in quality of product, since under the same conditions it is pos-
sible to put more time on any given piece of work.
The farmer who desires to obtain the greatest possible results from
his operations, whether he be already established or just entering
upon his venture, may profit by the example of some of our success-
ful industrial establishments, where, in order to reduce cost of pro-
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Betts, M. C. (Morris Cotgrave), 1875-1936 & Humphries, W. R. (Walter Raymond), 1896-. Planning the Farmstead, pamphlet, 1920; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86012/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.