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equally infallible in doing every thing nearly or quite 

 wrong. 



It is easy, then, to perceive that, if in the produc- 

 tion of butter or beef there are twenty or thirty dif- 

 ferent processes to be gone through, and one man 

 adopts the best method in each, while another per- 

 forms each imperfectly or not at all, their experience 

 in the end will be entirely opposite ; one making a 

 certain profit and the other incurring inevitable loss. 

 It is quite possible that each one of these various pro- 

 cesses might make a difference, on an average, of 

 nearly one cent a pound in the cost of beef or mutton, 

 and of several cents per bushel in the cost of corn. 



If, then, every farmer who embarks in feeding 

 stock for market, or in making butter or cheese, would 

 adopt the obvious course suggested by these reflec- 

 tions, giving careful attention to each particular pro- 

 cess all the way through, and making sure that each 

 one is rightly performed and at the proper time, he 

 would find that feeding can be made a profitable 

 business, and that by using all his faculties, mental as 

 well as physical, his success would be morally certain. 



