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Ordinary tools may be used, but having them is 

 absolutely necessary. The bricklayer would 

 make a sorry job of laying up a wall without a 

 trowel. ~No man should attempt to do any kind 

 of farming without proper equipment. The dry 

 farmer ought to have the following list of tools : 



Four or six horses. 



Three section drag harrow. 



A two gang plow, twelve or fourteen inch. 



A single walking plow. 



A good disc harrow (14 inch disc bes). 



One or two good cultivators. 



An Acme harrow. 



Wagon and hayrack. 



Mowing machine. 



Two sets of harness. 



A Press drill. 



Potato planter and digger. 



Harvesting machine. 



An alfalfa harrow. 



A weeder. 



A float or drag. 



The necessary small tools. 



MIXED The best paying dry farms will be those in 



which a system of cropping and feeding stock is 

 combined. Where the crops are fed to stock on 

 the farm and the manure and waste returned to 

 the land, the loss of soil fertility is so small that 

 we need take no account of it. In fact, while 



