Show land labor are saved by good farm layout labor efficiency has always been the keynote of american agriculture american farmers have wasted d land but they have harvested a larger yield to the worker or to the unit of labor than any other farmers in the world they have economized in labor which was scarce and have wasted land which was plentiful the future problems of american farmers include a better use of land a greater intensity of cultivation and at the same time the maintenance of a high productivity of the individual worker A well planned farm layout offers one means of saving land and labor A good farm layout should provide not only an efficient field arran arrangement but also a well planned farmstead economical fences convenient lanes and driveways and the m most ost profitable use of land these are statements of prof W rv I 1 myers head of the department of agricultural economics at cornell university many new york farms of today need rearranging he says because of changes in abric agric agricultural conditions the use of more machinery the need for larger and less arreg irregular ular fields and similar requirements |