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Mr. Van Drcser. — You can't pay a manager too much if jou 

 have business enough to keej) him at work. 



A Farmer. — We don't need a manager. It is all we can do' to 

 manage the farms ourselves. 



Mr. Cook. — There are a whole lot of fellows up in our county 

 who need managers, but they don't know it. As a rule, however, 

 a good wife is the best manager on a farm. 



Is It best for one to follow mixed farming or should one devote his 

 efforts to more than one branch? 



Mr. Terry. — As a rule, however, when a man attempts to do 

 a little of everything he does but little, and realizes but little. 

 But, if I were making dairying a specialty, I would follow it. We 

 are working out of potato-growing, and turned our attention 

 more to dairying, for the reason that potatoes do not prove as 

 profitable as they did a few years since. 



What is the best way to have maple sugar, white? 



Mr. Cook. — Keep everything clean. I have seen just as white 

 sugar made in the old kettles as by the best recent methods. 



Mr. Litchard. — That will do it. Keep out all foreign matter 

 and be careful in finishing the product not to scorch it. 



What are the greatest leaks in farming? 



Mr. Van Alstyne. — I don't know. There are a good many of 

 them. Probably the waste of manure is the greatest loss, the 

 next is the loss in farm machinery and tools left out of doors to 

 rust out and rot. 



Dr. Smead. — There is another great loss which is in the im- 

 proper feeding of our farm animals. Hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars are lost each year in feeding unbalanced rations, often 

 resulting in disease and death. 



I do not hesitate to say that fully 60 per cent, of the cases 

 I have been called upon to treat, in my profession as veterinary 

 surgeon, during the last 30 years, has been caused wholly from 

 the feeding of unbalanced rations. They 'over-stimulate the ani- 

 mal's stomach one way and starve it another. Result: Indiges- 



