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different -wheat, wortli ten per cent, per bushel less in the market, it would 

 make one hundred dollars difference in the value of the crop. Now, one hun- 

 dred dollars per annum will, in the course of years, make all the difference 

 between a rich and poor farmer ; all the difference between a lucky and un- 

 lucky farmer ; all the difference between your cheerful, contented, animated, 

 out-of-debt, full-faced fellow, and your growling, envious, malignant, litigious 

 fellow ; and it might make all the difference between a neat, educated, well- 

 bred family of children, and a ragged, ignorant, ill-bred family. I do not 

 mean to say that one hundred dollars annually, thus precisely saved, will pro- 

 duce precisely such results ; but I mean to say that the policy I indicate leads 

 to, and is capable of producing such results. Let one man take four hogs of 

 the pointer breed. He feeds them sixteen months, and they weigh two hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds each. His neighbor procures four hogs of the improved 

 breed. He feeds them twelve months, and they weigh three hundred pounds 

 each. One man's pork has cost him four cents per pound, the other man's 

 two and a half cents per pound. One makes a profit, the other a loss. Here is 

 a man who keeps five cows. They are cows, and all cows are cows. He 

 cares nothing for your Devons and Ayrshires. He shrugs his shoulders, and 

 says the milk pail breed is the breed for him. His cows are, however, raw- 

 boned, misshapen, wild looking, long legged beasts, which will hold his horse 

 a long tug in a fair race. A neighbor has two fine limbed, silken haired, 

 healtliy, gentle creatures. The last receives more income from two, than the 

 first does from five cows, and is subject to but two-fifths of the expense. A 

 farmer has a stock yard. He always has a pair of long legged, ill-broken, 

 ravenous oxen. They will not work well. They eat much and grow little. 

 His neighbor always has firmly knit, well broken, large, healthy, docile oxen. 

 It costs no more to support them, yet they do twice as much work, and for 

 beef or service would bring fifty per cent, more in the market. Take an or- 

 chard. Here is a man who at odd hours quietly pulls out his knife, and clips 

 a dead or superfluous limb. He restores a tree to symmetry here, and eradi- 

 cates a mean and scrubby one there. He tests the fruit, and if good, but not 

 the best, he procures and grafts the best. He grafts one tree. He quietly 

 slips a bud under the bark of another. At the end of ten years, compare his 

 orchard with that of a neighbor, in whose estimation all trees are trees alike, 

 and one orchard groans under an abundance of delicious fruit, and the other 

 bears a precarious and stinted crop of indifferent, astringent and mean fruit. 

 The profit of farming is the small surplus over and above subsistence and 

 support. If a man raises an annual crop worth five hundred dollars, and it 

 costs him five hundred dollars, he may be a desperate toiler for life, neither 

 animated by pride nor liope. But suppose in consequence of the observance 

 of the principles I have tried to enforce, he earns six hundred dollars with 

 five hundred dollars expenditure. The whole result of man's toil, his whole 

 condition, his welfare and his hopes are changed. The principle shoidd be a 

 controlling one. Like produces like. There is no necessity of a man's rais- 

 ing fine horses and poor cows, fine hogs and poor sheep, fine corn and poor 

 potatoes. Obey the same great law of nature, and all can be improved alike. 



