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kind, and unless he can get out of that kind of a life, he will event- 

 ually die in the poorhouse. 



Thus we see that men who jirepare themselves to do special work, 

 are the men who succeed in their business. Nearly every farmer is 

 so located, or circumstances are such that he can do some things 

 vastly better than he can do others. If growing grain and grass 

 is the chief business, and a good market is found to consume them, 

 then let the farmer bestow all of his energies in that direction, and 

 make a success of furnishing those productions. He must look well 

 to the fertility of his fields. He must be in readiness to top-dress 

 his meadows. He must have the right kind of fertilizer for his grain 

 fields. He must maintain the fertility of his soil, or that business 

 will eventually prove a failure. If a farmer can haul a fine load of 

 hay to the market, receive full value for the production, and then 

 return a valuable load of manure to replace the fertility lost, he 

 is certainly making a success of the business. His success also will 

 be far greater by making the business a specialty. He can secure 

 a better class of customers to purchase his hay. He can find a more 

 ready sale for this article than his neighbor, who is mixed up with 

 everything. His reputation for furnishing a good quality of hay 

 is already established. His goods are already advertised, and it 

 is one straight road to success, if he maintains his integrity. The 

 dairyman who is a specialist, will get where his mixed-up neighbor 

 can never reach him. He will have a better dairy farm. He wall 

 have a more convenient stock-barn, it will be better arranged. 

 The water sujjply on his premises will be complete. He will be a 

 man in the community that everybody knows. He will have a 

 better class of farm help to assist him with his work, for he can 

 atford to pay better wages, and he will have the means at hand to 

 do so. He will be a far better judge of dairy cows, and he will 

 get better prices and a more ready sale for his milk and butter. He 

 devotes more time to the study of the business, as he is continually 

 consulting scientific investigation. He can feed his animals with 

 more intelligence. He can give them scientific rations, and there 

 will be less loss in his business, than otherwise, where he is doing 

 a little of most everything. The market gardener who devotes 

 his entire time to the growing of truck, can do so far better than 

 the man who is only dabbling in the business. He knows just what 

 to plant, and then just how to care for it. He is familiar with all 

 the diseases and drawbacks in the business. He knows full well 

 that neglect will result in failure in the growth of his plants, and 

 he is careful to give them timely attention. He understands the 

 advantage of getting his products into the market early, before 

 his neighbors get there. It means better prices and more ready 

 sales. He knows very well that his large supply will take him 



