Excerpt from Hints From a Practical Farmer: To the Settlers on the Projects of the United States Reclamation Service

If each farmer would keep a record of the farm work for a vear he would likely find that the number of days actually spent in the work which returns the main farm income is small. During the months from March to November the principal farm work is accomplished and the bulk of the work is usually crowded into about three of these months. Of these three months not every day is a working day, due to bad weather. The result is that the farmer is confronted with the task of squeezing through a maximum of work in short periods, when everything must go as planned or loss occurs. It is in these periods of stress or what our efficiency experts call the peak load, that a well-planned farmstead and farm are appreciated. Then it is we determine whether every building on the farm is constructed for efficiency; whether each building is located in the right direction or at the right distance from every other building; whether the feed lots, the garden, the poultry yard, and other such subdivisions are properly located and the stock handled to the best advantage. The arrangement of the farmstead is just as important to the farmer as is the arrangement of the factory to the manufacturer. Manufacturers are planning with the view of reducing labor and costs. They are learning to start raw material in one end of a building and bring a finished product out the other end with never a backward movement or a moment's delay in the procedure.

If you are planning new buildings, plan them for efficiency and locate them for efficiency. Plan them just as if every day in the year would be a busy day when every minute of time and every step is valuable.

Planning for efficiency does not mean an unattractive farm lav out - rather, an attractive one.

Plan well, for planning takes but a short while and you will use your farmstead constantly for many years.

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