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For cultivation in the garden after everything is planted, we use 

 a Planet Jr., five-tooth cultivator. For working close to the small 

 plants, we put on a set of one and a quarter-inch teeth; these go 

 deep and do not throw dirt onto the plants; after the plants get 

 large, we use a three-inch set. Bj persistent cultivation and hand 

 hoeing we are able to keep the garden free from weeds and in a fair 

 condition of mellowness throughout the season. By following these 

 methods we are rew'arded with an abundant supply of garden truck, 

 which is a source of gratification and causes us to remember that 

 ''it is good for man to enjoy the fruits of his ow'n labor." No farm 

 garden is complete, however, unless it contains a strawberry bed, 

 which must be reset every third year, and raspberry and currant 

 bushes sufficient to supply the needs of the family. 



FARMINO ON A LARGE SCALE. 



By Hon. S. R. downing, Goshenville, Pa. 



Has it been shown that, as a rule, farming on a large scale, in the 

 broad way of large capital and labor used, pays better than the nar- 

 row and rather up-hill way of farming, the little, old-fashioned 

 manner of agriculture? 



There is near our place in Chester county a farm of GOO acres, with 

 two sets of buildings, the latest machinery, a creamery, traction 

 engine and mills for grinding , all under control of an expert man- 

 ager, with handsome teams in Philadelphia for the delivery of 

 butter, together with a colony of colored men to work on the farm, 

 milk and care for 50 cows, and yet a sale board is set out on the 

 road 1 travel to West Chester referring to an agency for the sale 

 of this farm. In another part of our county is another farm of much 

 less acreage and fewer cows, where the milk is mainly purchased, 

 made into butter and distributed in Philadelphia by teams owned 

 by the proprietor of the farm and creamer3\ This owner, it is said, 

 makes money, hiring little, and using much less capital on his farm 

 than that used on the 600 acre farm having a less number of cows. 



Again, I have in my mind operations on a large scale, where what 

 is termed sanitary milk is produced and bottled from Guernsey and 

 Jersey stock, where baths are located in barns and milkers pass 

 among the herds in costumes spotlessly white, and yet rumors fly 



