308 HOW TO GET A FARM, 



An admirable specimen of farming on a small 

 scale is presented in the management of Mr. Nathan 

 G. Morgan, of Union Springs, New York. That 

 gentleman formerly possessed 300 acres, which he 

 subsequently reduced to 160, and afterward, in con 

 sequence of protracted illness in his family, he re 

 moved to another place containing only 11 acres. 

 He has remarked that even this is too large. Yet 

 from this little spot he has sold $300 worth of farm 

 products in a single year, besides retaining enough 

 for the use of his family. He performs all the labor 

 with his own hands. He is especially successful in 

 raising pork, and finds this the most profitable 

 branch of farming, much more so than raising 

 wheat. He long since gave up raising cattle, as 

 being far less productive. He has raised 130 bush 

 els of shelled corn per acre, but the average is 

 about 80. By his skill in the art of pork-making, 

 he realizes a dollar per bushel for corn when the 

 pork is five cents per pound in market. He makes 

 an acre of ground maintain a horse during the 

 whole year, by soiling, feeding corn, &c. He 

 thinks, nevertheless, that a large farm may be made 

 as profitable as a small one, if equally well man 

 aged; but he considers the temptation, in nearly 

 all cases, is to do the work too superficially. 



Coming down to what has actually been done on 

 a two-acre farm, we obtain some approximate idea 

 of the real capabilities of well managed land. A 

 writer in the New England Farmer says, that nine 

 years previous he came into possession of a two-acre 

 farm, from the whole of which it was barely possi- 



