chant, who in a locality favorable for trade, and therefore 

 commanding high rent, occupies as litt'e room at^ the proper 

 conduct of his business will permit ; otiierwit^e, a certain part 

 of his capital would be, as it were, locked uj) and therefore 

 useless. On the other liand, corresponding lo the stock- 

 raiser, is the storage dealer, who, in a place where rent is 

 low, is enabled with profit to furnish accom nodation for goods 

 at less cost than the seller can keep them on hand, and whose 

 gain is therefore room. 



Between the two extremes represented bv the market gar- 

 den and the stock-farm lie means infinite in number and mi- 

 nute in degree; one of which is the milk-^arm, involving, as 

 properly conducted, the whole science of the soiling of cattle, 

 and the best methods of breeding for milk ; often carried on 

 in connection with the raising of roots and vegetables, both 

 for the market and for consumption upon the farm. Such is 

 the character of my own estate. Lying half way between 

 the markets of Lynn and Salem, with facilities for procuring 

 fertilizers at a moderate cost, I yet find It advantageous to 

 j)rovide for an additional supply by maintaining live stock 

 upon the place. For the sake of perspicuity of statement, I 

 may say that the part of my farm devoted to the })roduction 

 of milk receives its renewal of fertility from tlie dozen head 

 of cattle in my barn, aided by the necessary complement of 

 swine ; Avhile the waste resulting from the growth of market- 

 able produce is supplied from the stables and barnyards of the 

 city. In order to preserve the equilibrium of fertility through- 

 cut the sixty acres of arable land contained in the fiirm, it is 

 further necessary so to change the location of the vegetable 

 garden year by year, that in a given length of time the whole 

 area may have been taken up and relald to grass. 



It is thus seen, that, where manure is not to be purchased 

 to advantage, the introduction of live stock is the only means 

 of preserving the fertility of the soil. Hence, according as a 

 farm is devoted more to garden or field crops, is it found 

 profitable to support a less or a larger number of live stock. 



