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This treatment has saved me hundreds of dollars worth of 

 labor in consequence, while nearly all my neighbors have lost 

 by their cattle straying away long distances, often becoming 

 breachy, thus entailing loss in hunting them, injury to cattle, 

 and often the Avorst loss that can possibly befall a farmer, to 

 wit: Money paid a lawyer. 



A SMALL FAPwM, WELL MANAGED 



I have only sixteen acres under tlie plow, but work it 

 well, and having so few acres in cultivation I have not been 

 compelled to mortgage to get seed to cultivate with. Some 

 have said I did not "branch out" enough ; but I have seen a 

 good many men driven into bankruptcy in that way. I have 

 done my farming in my own way, and for the benefit of myself 

 and family. 



GOOD FENCES. 



The fence around my little farm is not of the very best, 

 but the "eye of the master is always upon it," and a rail is 

 never permitted to be long out of place. Whenever a set of 

 bars are put up, they are not left in such a slipshod condition; 

 that the first brute that comes along will go through. When I 

 feed I do not throw it all down in a heap, and let the strongest 

 creature eat a little and spoil the remainder, so that the weaker 

 animals either have to starve or forage for themselves, but I 

 manage that all share alike and all are alike filled and con- 

 tented. My objection to hired help is that they generally act. 

 as though they felt it beneath their dignity to go down into 

 small details ; or, in other words, they consider the looking 

 after such small things as the result of stinginess. But since the 

 looking after minor details has been profitable so far, I shall 

 continue to do so. 



