THE PEOPLE'S 



FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



PART I.-THE FARM. 



I. 



KARNI MANAGEMENT. 



WE often see two farmers living side by side, whose land 

 is very similar, and who began life with equal chances, 

 one of whom is surrounded with comforts and evidences of 

 thrift, and who loves his calling, while the other is surrounded 

 with evidences of failure, and is constantly complaining of the 

 hardness of a farmer's lot. It is not always the case that the 

 successful farmer is the more intelligent man, for often men of 

 good minds, industrious habits, and more than average intelli- 

 gence fail as farmers ; and the difference between the two, a dif- 

 ference which often involves the happiness of a life-time, consists 

 not in intelligence, but management. 



Want of success in farming is often due to the fact that the 

 farmer does not appreciate the dignity of his calling. He looks 

 upon farming as a simple art, requiring but little education or 

 thought, and dependent more upon muscle than brain, and there- 

 fore fails to study it and wisely plan for the future. While 

 Divine Providence has wisely ordered that the cultivation of 

 the soil shall be a simple art, so that even the uneducated and 

 ignorant may gain thereby a living, it is also true that it is 

 a profound science, sufficient to call into use the best mental 

 powers of the wisest man. The young farmer who understands 



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