138 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. • 



always found in changing business, and it is a little contrary 

 to the common rule among Yankees ; that is, to watch the 

 market, and, in case you find One season the market glutted 

 with any kind of produce, the next year you had better raise 

 as much as you can of that kind of produce. Yankees gen- 

 erally quickly leave the cultivation of that article ; and the 

 Yankee who is shrewd and wide-awake will go into it, and 

 therefore will make more money. I have a brother in Hart- 

 ford, a very successful farmer, and he makes that his rule. 

 He cultivates somewhere from fifty to sixty acres each year 

 in this way. For instance : a few years ago, the market was 

 glutted with cabbages; the next year he raised five acres, 

 and sold his crop for five thousand dollars. He has followed 

 that practice ; and, in my farming, I have kept along in the 

 same line, raising stock, keeping about a dozen cows (never 

 selling any calves, but raising the whole of them), and raising 

 sheep. Sometimes I have a hundred sheep. When one part 

 is up, the other may be down, and so I continue on in the 

 same line. I have raised horses some ; but I don't think I 

 have been successful with them. I would not advise people 

 to go into that business, judging from the experience of my 

 neighbors. I have in mind two young men who had a very 

 nice farm left to them worth twenty thousand dollars. 

 They went into horses. They did not work any themselves. 

 And let me say here, that one reason why farmers are not 

 successful is because they do not work themselves. I calcu- 

 late to work twelve or fifteen hours a day, and I think if a 

 farmer will work with his men, and say, '' Come," instead of 

 " Go," he will be successful. These young men to whom I 

 refer staid in the house and told their men to go to work. 

 One neighbor kept thirty horses, and in a few years his farm 

 was gone : the savings bank took it, and his friends would 

 have had to furnish him money to go out of town, if he had 

 not gone out before. Another had a farm worth twenty thou- 

 sand dollars : he farmed it along twenty years, and his friends 

 furnished him money to go West, and he left his farm in the 

 hands of the savings bank. Tliis is the experience in my 

 neighborhood in raising horses. 



In regard to raising corn : I have never thought, as our 

 friend from New Hampshire suggested, that it was a good 

 plan to raise the same crop on the same land year after year ; 



