MY LITTLE FARM 



PART I. 

 TO ADVANCE PRODUCTION 



CHAPTER I. 

 FARMING WITH A PEN 



" PSYCHOLOGY " is a fearsome word to begin a 

 book mainly about farming. Let us try to reduce 

 its terrors. Our conscious activity of mind, with 

 that of the five senses in its service, is what we 

 call our psychology, and behind it is its driving 

 power, which we call our energy. Here is a very 

 wonderful scheme, exquisitely designed for our 

 benefit, and lodged free of charge in each of us to 

 begin the world. All the inventions of mankind 

 are crude compared with the amazing mechan- 

 ism of man himself. To be thus endowed and 

 set down in a world of endless opportunity is no 

 small thing, and our life is the result of the 

 scheme acting on the opportunities. 



The first of the great facts demanding our atten- 

 tion is that the driving power is always a limited 

 quantity, while the mechanism, for application 

 and direction, is comparatively unlimited. Hence 

 the importance of applying the power economi- 

 cally, in reproductive directions, for the benefit and 



