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" reform becomes the order of the day. So far as I know, farm- 

 *' ing is now improving in all the older sections of the country, 

 " except, perhaps, in the neighborhood of cities. The temptation 

 " to raise hay arwd sell it at high prices, in a great city, leads to the 

 " worst farming that has come under my notice. Whenever I 

 " hear a farmer say that he pays fifty or sixty dollars an acre for 

 "manure to put on his fields, and then learn that this manure is 

 " mostly straw that has become stained a little in some city stable, 

 " fifty or more miles from where it is applied as manure, I am 

 " quite apt to tell that farmer that his money has been badly laid 

 " out, and that, in a proper system of mixed husbandry, and with 

 "a proper rotation of crops, he would have saved this expense." 



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