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The Rural Science Series
Edited by L. H. Bailey
THE FARMSTEAD
THE FARMSTEAD
THE MAKING OF THE RURAL HOME AND
THE LAY-OUT OF THE FARM
BY
ISAAC PHILLIPS ROBERTS
Director of the College of Agriculture and Professor of Agriculture in
Cornell University; author of “The Fertility of the Land”
FIFTH EDITION
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1910
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1900
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped January, 1900
Reprinted August, 1902; January, 1905;
August, 1907; June, 1910
Mount Pleasant Press
J. Horace McFarland Company
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania