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I finally said, " Sylvester, I will tell you how to manage 

 your farm and stock so as to receive good wages for 

 yourself and also for Mary, and something as a profit. 

 How much ready money have you saved up now ? " 

 "Well," says he, " we have a bit over $2,000; we have 

 each year saved up just about what the interest would 

 be, and worked for our board ever since we bought the 

 farm, bad luck ! but it's a good farm too." 



"Well, Sylvester, in the first place, you must buy 

 fifty cords of good manure, that will cost you at the rail- 

 road-station $6.50 per cord, $325 ; that will give you 

 82 cords of manure. Spread that as you haul it broad- 

 cast -upon 15 acres, that will be about 5^ cords to the 

 acre. After you have got it well spread, come up to my 

 place, and get my Thomas smoothing-harrow, and give 

 it two good harrowings, one each way. The 15 acres 

 will take your ten-acre meadow and the five-acre field 

 where you had potatoes and other vegetables last year : 

 the other five acres, which is the apple-orchard, you can 

 cut the hay early, and then use it as a hog-pasture. 



" Now, immediately after harrowing the five-acre field, 

 sow it to spring rye to be fed out green in May. You 

 have now a lintel on one side of your barn which will 

 hold 1 6 cows ; you want to make one on the other side 

 36 feet long, that will accommodate 12 cows; the other 

 1 2 feet will allow for two horse-stalls and a pair of stairs 

 to go up to the granary, which you must move up stairs ; 

 this gives you room in your barn for 28 cows and two 

 horses. All the planting you want to do this year is one- 

 half acre of potatoes and a good big kitchen-garden." 

 " Never you mind telling me that," broke in Sylvester. 

 " Go on, docther : I'm listening wid both ears, and so is 

 Mary." 



" Now, after you have your manure all out and spread, 



