THE YOUNG FARMER 



years. In the young orchard there will be 

 grown for a few years potatoes, tomatoes, 

 cabbages and garden peas. After the 

 orchard attains a size which forbids these 

 intertilled crops, a portion of the pasture 

 may be broken up so that these market gar- 

 den crops may be raised. There will be 

 kept six horses, 20 milch cows, 20 ewes of 

 some mutton breed of sheep, five brood sows 

 and 50 hens. 



First of all, let attention be called to the 

 broad knowledge of farming required to 

 operate this moderate-sized and compara- 

 tively simple farm. The crops to be raised 

 are maize, oats, wheat, clover, alfalfa, tim- 

 othy, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages, garden 

 peas and apples. The animal products sold 

 will be chiefly butter fat, wool, mutton, veal, 

 pork and eggs. This is neither a long nor 

 complex list of products. They are all 

 adapted to the farm which the writer has in 

 mind. Yet the man who operates this farm 

 to the highest success will need to have a 

 knowledge of agronomy, or the raising of 

 field crops, of horticulture, animal hus- 

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