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CHAPTER XXX. 



GETTING MOST OUT OF THE FARM. 



There is much loss to farming operations, and it is a 

 matter of common knowledge that the great majority of 

 farmers fall short of achieving their best because of 

 the imperfection of their work. There are so many ways 

 that loss can come to the farmer that this is not surprising. 

 It may come through indolence or the inability to do that 

 which is nesessary. Farming is hard work when science 

 is not recognized. It may come through sheer waste, for 

 there is no other place where waste is so easy and so con- 

 stant unless guarded against. It too frequently comes be- 

 cause of wrong methods, or doing the wrong thing, or 

 trying too many experiments, or because the farmer dis- 

 poses of his raw materials, and only half completes the 

 work that is his by right. 



That there is a right way and a wrong way for nearly 

 everything will not be disputed. Familiar illustrations 

 are found on every hand. The housewife who combines 

 skill and intelligence with her work prepares the bread, 

 and after working, and mixing, and baking, she produces 

 the finest loaf possible. Another with the same materials, 

 and doing perhaps as much work, but in a different way, 

 gets bread unfit for the table. And so it is with nearly 

 everything. 



In agriculture it is necessary that the farmer, if he is to 

 keep abreast of the times, if he is to compete with others, 

 if he is to get the most out of his farming operations and 



