If you wanted to buy a farm, what facts would you investigate in
regard to land and location?

What farm in your neighborhood comes nearest to meeting your
requirements in these matters? Explain fully why.

Make a sketch map of a farm in your neighborhood, preferably one
upon which you have lived, showing as nearly as you can the
boundaries, the position of highlands and lowlands, marshes,
timber, streams, etc. Also the position of house, barns, bridges,
roads, and other important features.

Did the features of the land indicated on your map determine the
location of the buildings? of the roads and bridges? the kinds of
crops raised on different parts of the farm?

Should the surface features of the land be taken into account in
determining the position of the house and barns in relation to
each other? Why?

Has the character of the land influenced the life of the farmer's
family in any way? Explain.

IMPORTANCE OF GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS

Directly or indirectly, geographical conditions affect every
aspect of community life and help or hinder us in satisfying all
of our wants (see Chapter I). Their influence is chiefly felt,
however, in their relation to the economic interest of the people;
that is, in relation to earning a living and the production of