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plates the acquisition and rule of a township, and that, 

 while farming on a large area is to many attractive 

 and inspiring, there are scope and incitement also for 

 tillage on a humbler scale for tillage that permits 

 no weed to ripen seed, and no nest of caterpillars to 

 flourish a month undisturbed for tillage that achieves 

 large crops and profits from small areas, and rejoices 

 in that neatness and perfection of culture attainable 

 only in the management of small farms. 



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THE machinery whereby the farmer of our day 

 converts into cash or other values that portion of his 

 products which is not consumed in his house or on 

 his farm, seems to me lamentably imperfect. Let me 

 illustrate my meaning : 



After three all but fruitless years, we have this 

 year a bountiful Apple-crop, in this State and (I be- 

 lieve) throughout the North. Our old orchards being 

 still, for the most part, preserved and in bearing con- 

 dition, while a good many young ones, planted ten to 

 twenty years ago, begin to fruit considerably, we 

 had, throughout the three Fall months, a superabun- 

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