25(5' now TO make farming pay. 



have learned how to save, to make, and to apply manure in the 

 most profitable manner— and when they have learned to turn 

 their ^rain into meat which will be worth as much as the grain, 

 while the manure of the animals fed will increase the amount 

 of the next crop nearly two fold— then we may not only reckon 

 on our agriculture as being progressive, but as a system of farm- 

 ing that 'will pay,' and be worthy of universal adoption." 

 " "What then is paying farming ? We answer, it is that system 

 of management in which our old worn out farms are renovated 

 from their greatly impoverished condition, the DOor land ren- 

 dered good and productive, and the good land rendered better, 

 paying the cost of cultivation and the interest on the capital 

 invested ; and leaving a profit to the proprietor, all from the 

 resources of the /army "We want to sell the products, and, at 

 the same time, make such a disposition of them that the soil 

 will not be impoverished by removing crops from it. We want 

 to keep our cake and eat it too, in a certain sense. For exam- 

 ple : if a farmer raises one hundred bushels of Indian corn, his 

 aim should be to use it up in such a manner that his soil will 

 not be impoverished. The same is true of his other crops of 

 cereal grain and grass. By feeding out one hundred bushels 

 of corn in the most economical manner, and to the best kind of 

 swine, cattle, or sheep, and by saving all their manure and apply- 

 ing it to the soil where the corn grew, and by cultivating that 

 soil in a most thorough manner, its fertility may be improved." 

 " If a farmer desires to raise bountiful crops, of any kind of 

 grain or grass, he cannot expect to be able to do it on a soil 

 that has been exhausted of most of those substances which are 

 required to produce that kind of grain. But by raising stock 

 m connection with growing grain, by feeding' out a large por- 

 tion of coarse grain to animals ; by husbanding all the resources 

 for saving and preparing fertilizing materials for the soil ; and 



