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ture at Washington, and they will send you a pamphlet telling 

 the food-value of the various products of the farms. 



Sell when your produce brings a reasonable profit. If you 

 know its cost you will be able more intelligently to dispose of 

 your crops. There is some perishable produce which you must 

 sell for what you can get, but nonperishable produce, such as 

 hay, grain, etc., can be kept until it brings more than it cost to 

 produce. But don't be foolish and want an unreasonable profit. 

 This has been the mistake of too many, I know of a farmer who 

 had some pork which had cost him about |5 per hundred-weight. 

 He was offered |9 per hundred-weight, but would not sell. This 

 was in the month of March. He kept his pork until the 

 following October, when it had cost him about |10 per hundred- 

 weight and then sold it for $7 per hundredweight. 1 knew of a 

 farmer who had 16,000 pounds of hops, which had cost him 

 about $1,600, and for which he was offered |16,000. He refused 

 to take it. Afterwards sold them for about $2,000. I know of 

 another farmer who in the last twenty years has had opportuni- 

 ties to sell his large hop crops at prices which would have made 

 him worth to-day, |500,000. But he is not worth a dollar, simply 

 because he was not willing to sell with reasonable profits. 



Give the boys and girls on the farms a chance to have some- 

 thing of their own and by which each year they can accumulate 

 a little money. If they expect to spend their life on the farm, 

 try to give them an opportunity to learn in some agricultural 

 school the more intelligent methods of farming. Always bring 

 them to the Farmers' Institute, even if you have to keep them 

 out of school for a few days. Go home to put in practice many 

 of the excellent things that have been said at this institute. The 

 power that willeth to do is the strongest power in the world. A 

 sick woman was supposed to be dying. The funeral arrange- 

 ments had been made, when she overheard someone saying the 

 funeral would be on Friday at 2 p. m. She lifted her head from 

 the pillow and said, '' There won't be any funeral here on Friday." 

 There was not. The next week she arose from her bed and lived 



