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Tet iiuiny men raise as much corn as ever, because tliey are 

 :accustomed to do it and dread to make any change. I think, 

 liowever, tliat chaugin<ji; or neglecting to change in such mat- 

 iters from established customs must make a great dittercnce in 

 tlie profits of farming. 



I would not imply that it is good policy for a farmer to sell 

 ;inuch Enjilit^h hav : on the contrarv it is luidoubtedlv the best 

 plan to feed to stock kept on the place all the hay that is pro- 

 duced, and buy the grain in addition. Unfortunately, however. 

 hat few of us can do this ; for we depend on the money re- 

 ceived for hay to meet expenses. 



Some few men, Avho can take city horses to board through 

 tliC winter, combine the best points of both systems, obtaining 

 the manure as a return for the care of the horses, and receiving 

 Jibotit as much for boarding them as the hay consumed Avould 

 brinii" in market. 



A plan Avhich I tried on a small scale the past winter gives 

 me very good satisfiction, and furnishes a considerable amount 

 of manure. 



Findino; in the fall that I should not be able to wt horses to 

 'I)oard to eat my surplus hay, I bought, in December, a few far- 

 row cows and fatted them, selling them, after feeding from two 

 to three montlis, at an advance sufficient to pay for all the hay 

 imd meal consumed. 



Some plan of this kind nin>t, T tlilidv, be adoi)ted l)y many 

 of us to keep up the fertility of our soil. If we can 

 devise some system that will enable us to feed to advan- 

 tage more than we raise, we shall succeed in greatly increasing 

 the value of our fields and pastures, of Avhich avc have ample 

 assurance, in the results obtained l)v the farmers of England, 

 who have increased the average yield of wheat twenty bushels 

 per acre by this process during the last fcAV years. 



.Vnother rerpiisite for the attainment of success is a strojig 

 Ijiitl!. A fiirmer of all men is most de])endent on nature for 

 his bread, and he should manifest in his life the belief that 

 "^ seed time and harvest shall not fail."' "NVe often hear men 



