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because he can get it cheap, and the result is, he loses annually more in 

 the destruction of property by the animal than the price of an orderly 

 one. We would say to every farmer, if you have a poor fence, either 

 tear it down or make it a gcKxl one. If you have an unruly ox, con- 

 vert it into beef — don't keep it to destroy your own crops, nor sell it to 

 cheat an unsuspecting neighbor. Poor fences and unruly cattle are the 

 most unprofitable things a man can keep upon a farm. For keeping 

 the one or harboring the other, there is no excuse, and the farmer who 

 does it, is not only constantly losing his own crops, but is sure to have 

 diflBculty with his neighbors. 



To be brief, in summing up some of the rules which should govern 

 a farmer if he intends to be successful, we would glance at the follow- 

 ing: Never undertake to do too much — better farm it well upon a 

 small scale, than poorly upon a large one. There is more profit in 

 raisinir two hundred bushels of wheat from ten acres, than there is in 

 raising a thousand from a hundred acres ; there is more profit in making 

 a ton of pork from five hogs than there is in making two tons from 

 twenty hogs. Better raise five hundred bushels of corn from ten acres 

 than a thousand from forty. It is better to raise forty tons of hay from 

 twenty acres than a hundred tons from a hundred acres. And so of 

 every kind of agricultural operation the profit is not in the number of 

 bushels or acres sown, but in the increased or superior yield of the crop, 

 not in the number of animals fattened, but in the extra pounds of meat 

 made from a given quantity of feed. 



It is as easy to raise a Durham, or Devon, or an Ayrshire cow worth 

 fifty dollars, as it is to raise a good common one worth but twenty 

 dollars, and it costs no more to raise a high blooded colt worth ^100 

 than it does to raise a dunghill animal worth §50, while this extra 

 value may be the only real profit you gain in the expenditure of rais- 

 inf the beast. If a farmer can just save himself by raising a coarse 

 article of wool at twenty-five cents per pound, his next neighlKjr who 

 raises 1,000 pounds of fine clip and sells it at three .shillings, makes a 

 clear profit of §12.5. The same rule applies to the sowing and j>lanting 

 of choice seed. It is well known that while one kind of cum will 

 grow but thirty bushels per acre, another kind, upon the same kind of 

 soil, with the same treatment, in the same sea-son, would grow fifty ; 

 and who does not see that the twenty extra bushels raised from the 

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