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in all respects become a " business," account keeping will necessarily 

 have to be provided to put our farming, large and small — the large 

 farmer's corn or root growing and the small cultivator's rearing of 

 potatoes and " truck " crops — on the only footing on which we may 

 be sure that it will be carried on to the individual's and the com- 

 munity's profit, that is, on the footing of " business." 



