WELL-PLANNED FARMS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 26 (Supplement)

WELL-PLANNED FARMS

GOOD EQUIPMENT ESSENTIAL The well-planned, the well-equip-ped farm is the ideal farm. Weil manned, it will make greater profits than the ill-planned, ill-equipped farm. Laying out a farm on sound lines, and equipping it adequately, costs money, however, and, for this reason, many of our dairy farms are not planned at all, or are but poorly equipped. In suggesting to the dairj farmer that proper planning and equipment will pay profits on the money invested—and good profits—there is the danger of being misunderstood. The well-planned farm, well-equipped, is looked upon far too often as something which only the rich man can afford, when, as a matter of fact, some of the most profitably planned farmsteads are the property of men of small means but good judgment. The smaller the capital, the greater need for wise planning:. Good planning is not so dependent on capital and income, as it is on forehandedness, on thought, and on wellarranged ideas as to what the farm should be capable of producing. Much Thought Needed The dairy farmer wishing to obtain the best possible result from his work, and from his farm, should give much thought to the planning of the farm, and the farmstead within the farm. If he be starling on a new venture —on laud that lacks fences and buildings—planning is a simple matter, but even when he is already established, and has his sheds and other buildings built, a re-plannina and a re-arrange-ment are often desirable and profitable. ihe first principle of good arrangement is the relation of buildings to pa 1 docks, and of p. den. ck? to each other, so that a minimum amount of time shall be consumed, and no labour lost, it attending to the routine of the farm. The second principle is to have buildings of such sound construction that they will last a profitable number of years, buildings that will be attractive to look at, and yet to have these buildings at a cost that will make them a profitable investment. Pleasing architecture, tempered with wise economy, is a phrase which has been used in describing the arrangement of a farm, and it is one that might be remembered by every man who is planning and building a dairyfarm. There is no need for farm buildings to be ugly, and yet how often is this the case on many dairy farms in this CountryUtility is the only consideration, and it should be always the main consideration, but there is no reason why there should not be utility with attractiveness; there is no reason why the farm should not he inspiring to those working on it.