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CHAPTER XIII. 



Many kinds of Farmers Women managing Farms Very Small 

 Ones Eleven Acres A Two-acre Farm The Spade and the 

 Fork A Single Acre Heads better than Hands Help Your 

 self. 



THERE are all classes of farmers, the sick and the 

 well, the sound and the cripple, women as well as 

 men. Some are cultivating their thousands of acres, 

 using the steam-engine as a ploughman ; others are 

 contented on a single acre, depending on the spade 

 and hoe. Yet all seem to live. That they continue 

 to do so is presumptive evidence of intrinsic good 

 ness in the occupation, or that, if a poor one, they 

 manage it so prudently as to make it a paying one. 

 Some of them have been suddenly placed in charge 

 of a farm, with no previous knowledge of the busi 

 ness, yet have done well. Thus some men may be 

 said to be born farmers, as others have been born 

 generals. 



It is related by an agricultural journal, that an 

 eminent London tradesman had married the daugh 

 ter of a farmer who held three hundred acres near 

 London, and who had acquired considerable proper 

 ty. The farmer having died, the widow carried on 

 the farm, but after two or three years experience 

 discovered that she was losing money. The son-in- 

 law was consulted as to what it was best to do. On 



