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two, and where land is so cultivated as to produce 

 such crops it is constantly improving. When not 

 so cultivated it is constantly depreciating. 



Take, as an illustration, the case of two adjoining 

 farms, that of A containing 150 acres, and that of 

 B only 40. A has 40 acres of meadow, on which 

 he cuts an annual average of 35 tons of hay, while 

 B has only 15 acres of meadow, yielding him 2| 

 tons per acre, or 37 \ in all. A plants 6 or 8 acres 

 of corn every year, which yield him about 30 

 bushels to the acre, and his other field crops are in 

 proportion, with proportionate results. On the 

 other hand, B plants but 2 or 3 acres of corn, but 

 he gathers from 75 to 80 bushels per acre, and is 

 able to do all his work himself. A pays out $150 

 a year for help. He complains of hard times, of 

 the scarcity of money, and talks of moving West, 

 not because there is more money there, but because 

 he can obtain more land. He seems unable to com 

 prehend that he already has more than he is man 

 aging properly. 



~No such longings assail B. His little freehold is 

 too precious in his eyes to be alienated he is satis 

 fied that no change could be for the better. His 

 farm is constantly improving in value, while the 

 other is annually decreasing. The latter is worked 

 by a skinner , the former by & farmer. The skinner 

 ploughs and plants indiscriminately. Around his 

 barns the manure heaps lie unused from year to 

 year. He reads no agricultural books, takes no ag 

 ricultural paper, sells all his best stock, and is thus 

 compelled to keep that which is so worthless as to 



