Dublin Core
Title
Laying Out and Dividing Farms
Description
Lead image of a detailed article on the best ways to lay out a farm renders a bird's eye view of a house, barn and outbuildings, fruit orchard, flower garden, penned livestock, and a field under cultivation. In the foreground a horse and wagon pass by this orderly operation. Probably written for more affluent farmers, the article nevertheless becomes more granular in its advice than this simplified illustration. For example, even this pictorial view is informed by the principles of fields being relatively similar in size (for crop rotation), of keeping the fields nearly square (to minimize fencing), and creating a central farm road to access all of the fields.
Publisher
Luther Tucker & Son
Date
1857
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs 3 (1857): 309
Reprinted as The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs for 1855-6-7 (1886): 236
Courtesy of Internet Archive
Reprinted as The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs for 1855-6-7 (1886): 236
Courtesy of Internet Archive
Format
jpeg, 619 KB
Type
Still image
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Engraved illustration