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as to whether that part of our farming pays 

 and pays well. A small corner of the farm, 

 and a few acres of uncultivated land used as 

 pasture, supply our table. We're living more 

 comfortably than we ever lived before. 



That might not happen so for everybody. 

 In all probability it wouldn't happen so if the 

 householder were not something of a manager. 

 The difference between low cost and high cost, 

 in furnishing the farm table, lies altogether in 

 management. When there's work to be done 

 in the garden, we plan always to have it done 

 at a time when the work horses are idle for an 

 hour or so and when we can squeeze in the labor 

 of one of the hands who would otherwise be 

 hanging on the side-lines. In the course of a 

 season we cut out considerable waste of time 

 in that way. The saving amounts to a great 

 deal. No matter how carefully the farmer 

 plans, he'll be bound to have some gaps of time 

 in his heavy field work now and then; gaps of 

 hours that run into days. 



Maybe the cultivator has been at work in 

 the morning on the new-ground corn, with an 

 extra hand following the machine with a grub- 

 bing-hoe, cutting out the loosened roots of the 

 old growths. And maybe there's an interval 



