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Do your work well, cultivate every acre of your thousand 

 acres as you would cultivate a single acre, and your profit 

 will be proportioned to the number of acres you so culti- 

 vate. 



Then there is another thing I will mention in that connec- 

 tion. The man who cultivates two, three or four hundred 

 acres can afford to keep all the machinery and appliances 

 that have been produced in these modern times for the eco- 

 nomical cultivation of crops, while the man who has but 

 twenty-five acres cannot afford to do it. A man in these 

 days, in order to cultivate a farm economically, must have all 

 sorts of implements of tillage. Compare the implements of 

 tillage on the farm to-day with the implements that were 

 on the farm when I was a boy ! Think of the old plough, 

 with its wooden mould-board ; of the old three-cornered 

 harrow, with teeth three inches long and as large as your 

 arm, and always blunt; then go into the tool shed of any 

 one of these successful farmers and look at the implements 

 of tillage. What do they have there ? Look at the culti- 

 vating tools, the harvesting tools, and the multitude of im- 

 plements of husbandry there that a man who is the owner of 

 a hundred-acre farm can afford to have and must have ! 

 How can a man who is cultivating a twenty-five acre farm 

 afford to have such implements? Of course they cost a 

 great deal of money. It costs him more to cultivate his 

 land per acre, it costs him more to harvest his crop per 

 acre, it costs him more to market his crop per acre, per 

 bushel or per hundred bushels. The more a man has to 

 sell, the more land he cultivates, the more tools and imple- 

 ments he can use, the cheaper is all this work done. 



A Voice. He can hire. 



Prof. Stockbridge. I know he can, but he cannot pay. 

 [Laughter.] I want to lay great emphasis upon thorough 

 manuring, thorough cultivation, the management of the farm 

 on strictly business principles, and the selling of the crops 

 on strictly the same principles. If you will do that, you 

 can go ahead and make your farm just as large as you 

 please ; or, in other words, up to the measure of your indi- 

 vidual capacity as business men ; the larger the farm the 

 greater is the per cent, of profit. [Applause.] 



