Where To Put Our Buildings

la times past he who entered ïoto farm life expected to be more or leas au isolated being. Society had do charme for him. He was in most respect a world unto himself. How to make the most money out of his land was the beginning and ending of his hopes, and to this object all his arrangement turned. In selecting a site for his dwelling-house and farm buildings it was therefore a point to get as near the center of his plot of ground as possible. Of course the contour of the surface, the nearness to water, and other oonveniences all had to have a voioe in tbe decisión, but if these voted for the middle of the tract of land it was all the more comforting. Kvery field required attention, and the oenter of thb whole economized time and space in getting from part to part of the whole concern. But times have changed. Agricultural intelligence has ad vaneed more than would hare been dreamed of a genoration ago. The newspaper is now a part of farm life as niuch it is of city life; we live as much from mental pleasure as from the hogs and oattle and potatoes and corn which our broad acres yield. Social life as well as material wealth is an agrioultural want, and must be kept in view in locating tarm buildings as much as any of the mere conveniences before named. Another point is that there is not now the same necessity for so much labor on the farm as formerly. Machinery now does a great part of the hard labor, and the mere saving of manual labor is in a great measure acoomplished. Alltogether it is not a matter of serious coiisequence where the buildings are located. This gires us much more chance to entertain the social elements in lifetime, and there is no reason why in locating the spot chosen might not be speoially in view to its oontiguity to a neighborhood. A dozen farms of a bundred acres or so each oould be so arranged that the buildings might all be within gun-shot of each other. Kven though there might be some disadvantages from the labor point of view, the nearness to society will geuerally compénsate for it. Farmers, as well as other classes, have learned that tbere are inany ways in which they can co-operate to mutual advantage, and this can just as well be borne in mind in locating farm buildings as not.