1204 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



and labor. Feed the soil with the food it needs. Kindness is 

 accepted at par, and repaid with interest by stock, employes, 

 and family. It is not good policy to leave any work to do itself, 

 except Sunday work. The man too smart to pay the price 

 asked by a reliable dealer is just smart enough to be gulled by 

 a sharper. Accounts are sign-boards which both show where 

 you are and have been, and point to the right road. Better 

 to lose a good horse trade than self-respect, and it is very hard 

 to keep both. When a farmer once owns a 2:30 trotter, he can 

 not drive fast enough with even that to overtake his money. 

 The manure bank is the best savings-bank, and the safest bank 

 of deposit is a bank of earth. The man who takes a good agri- 

 cultural paper has the Extract of Agriculture in his house. 

 The lack of a haymow is the possession of a hole in the pocket. 

 Some farming is like a sieve : small holes, but the profit gets 

 through. Dig no holes to fill again. Aid the fairs. Poor 

 laborers are multiplied evils. Above the barn door: "0 ye 

 that enter me, leave pipes behind." Raise large crops that 

 leave the farm richer than they found it. Not only increase 

 your productions, but save and market them better. A little 

 ready cash will not wait long for profitable use ; better have 

 money in your pocket than land unpaid for. Begin with new 

 crops and varieties on a small scale, enlarging as you gain ex- 

 perience. Generosity to man, beast, and soil is profitable. 

 Cleanliness is health in the house and stable. If Nebuchadnez- 

 zar learned the virtues of grass, he got some valuable agricult- 

 ural information. Very often the problem of converting an im- 

 poverished, unprofitable farm into a fertile, profitable one is the 

 easy addition of grnss and stock. After intelligent and careful 

 deliberation mark out your course, and then adhere to it; ca- 

 pricious changes are always unwise. 



Debt has not night or Sabbath; interest never goes a-fish- 

 ing. When debt enters the house, content departs; and when 

 a mortgage shadows the home, foreboding and disquiet take their 

 places at the fireside. I have seen a man too poor to buy shoes 

 for his wife, yet rich enough to buy more land. Buy a farm 

 suited to your means, adapted to your tastes, affording a good 



