Capital in FAR:\nN<;. 383 



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immediate liues of railroad. I think the nnniber will he 

 much larger in some parts of Franklin County. 



I would not wish to have it inferred that large farms can- 

 not be well managed or inade profitable, but it will require 

 a greater amount of labor and attention, in proportion to 

 size, than smaller ones, while the want of capital is just as 

 apparent, and the same course pnrsned in relation to an 

 improved system of agriculture. 



Very many of our farms are too large, as at present man- 

 aged, to produce the best results. The territory is too 

 extended, too much ground is gone over, requiring extra 

 travel, labor and attention, and the income is not in the 

 same proportion to the outlay as in farms of smaller dimen- 

 sions. 



Wl ere is the farmer but will admit that he could do so 

 muc\ better if he had the means at command, that, indeed, 

 he knows much more about farming than he practices, for 

 this very reason ? Most will even admit that their farms, 

 rightly managed, might be made to produce fifty, or even 

 one hundred per cent, more than at present ; yet, knowing 

 this, with strange inconsistency, instead of going to work to 

 produce these results, will purchase another farm, using the 

 money for this purpose that might have been more profita- 

 bly employed in so improving what was already possessed 

 »s to double the returns therefrom, and render the cost of 

 production less, from the better condition of the soil, arising 

 from intelligent methods of cultivation. 



And here allow me to say to those having farms of one 

 hundred and fifty acres, or one hundred, even, paid for, of 

 average condition, and presenting the usnal capabilities for 



