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your fifty acres of turnips should yield 400 bushels per acre, 20,000 

 bushels, or 6,666 barrels, worth half a dollar per barrel clear of 

 freight, $3,333 ; to which add the crop of potatoes $3,333, and 

 you have $6,666. From this sum deduct manuring and interest 

 $1,200, and the balance is $5,466 from one hundred acres. 



Now instead of marketing the turnips (which are a bulky 

 article), let us adopt the European practice of purchasing stock 

 in the interior of the country from the breeders, and fatten it for 

 the market. It has been demonstrated that sixty bushels of tur- 

 nips, and six hundred weight of hay properly fed, w411 fatten ten 

 sheep, or one cow, in the best manner for the shambles, in the 

 space of two months. Sheep and cattle can be purchased in the 

 interior of the country, in low condition, for half their market 

 value when fattened. This process here, as well as abroad, will 

 yield the farmer a liberal increase. 



On my late visit to Europe, I found that they adapted their 

 business and products to their locations. In districts at a distance 

 from market, they raise grain and breed stock, while those more 

 convenient turn their attention to growing vegetables and fatting 

 stock; and it is to this practice of making two professions, viz: 

 fatting and breeding, that I attribute most of their success. In 

 farming, like every other business, a man should never have " too 

 many irons in the fire at once," some of them are liable to get 

 burned. He who turns his attention either to one branch or the 

 other, is the most likely to come out successful in the end. Who 

 employs a physician to perform the duties of a surgeon, or a car- 

 penter to build a brick or stone wall? And with deference I 

 submit to intelligent farmers, whether there is not as much diifer- 

 ence in the modes and rules of breeding stock and fatting it, as in 

 that of raising grain and bulbous roots? 



It seems almost incredible to an American, that in many parts 

 of Great Britain and France, the farmers- pay $20 per acre rent 

 per annum, by the hundred acres, and yet they drive a thriving 

 business, by adapting their products to their location, and yet it 

 seldom happens that similar articles are higher there than in the 

 New York markets. 



