THE PRACTICAL FAHMKK. 



WHO is the practical fanner? Let us look :it two 

 pictures and decide. 



Here is a farm of 100 acres in ordinary condition. 

 It is owned and tilled by a hard-working man. who, 

 in the busy season, employs one or two a-si-tanN. 

 The farm is free from debt, but it does not produce 

 an abundant income; therefore, its owner cannot 

 afford to purchase the best implements or make 

 other needed improvements; besides lie don't 

 believe in such things. His father was a good so] id 

 farmer; so was his grandfather; and so is he, or 

 lie thinks he is. He is satisfied that " the good old 

 way" is best, and he sticks to it. He works from 

 morning till night; from spring till fall. In the 

 winter he rests, as much as his lessened duties will 

 allow. During this time, he reads little, or nothing. 

 Least of all does he read about fanning. He don't 

 want to learn how to dig potatoes out of a book. 

 Book farming is nonsense. Many other similar 

 keep him from agricultural reading. His hou- 

 comfortable, and his barns are quite as good as his 



