THE PRACTICAL FARMER. 



"Who is \k\Q, practical farmer f Let iis look at two 

 pictures and decide. 



Here is a farm of 100 acres iu ordinary condition. 

 It is owned and tilled by a hard-working man, who, 

 in the busy season, employs one or two assistants. 

 The farm is free from debt, but it does not produce 

 an abundant income ; therefore, its owner cannot 

 afford to purchase the best implements or make 

 other needed improvements ; besides, he don't 

 helieve in such things. His father was a good solid 

 farmer; so was his grandfather; and so is he, or 

 he thinks he is. He is satisfied that " the good old 

 way " is best, and he sticks to it. He works from 

 morning till night ; from spring till fall. In the 

 winter he rests, as much as his lessened duties will 

 allow. During this time, he reads little, or nothing, 

 liCast of all does he read about farming. He don't 

 want to learn how to dig potatoes out of a book. 

 Book farming is nonsense. Many other similar ideas 

 keep him from agricultural reading. His house is 

 -jomfortable, and his barns are quite as good as hia 



