THE PRACTICAL FAUMKU. 



sub-soil plow, the cultivator, ami many other in 

 inents of improved construction. I!.- i- wrong 

 cultivating with the plow and hoe. those cro] 

 could be better or more cheaply managed with 

 cultivator or horse-hoe. He i~ wrong in many th : 

 more, as we shall see it' we examine all of h; 

 routine of work, lie is right in a few thi: 

 but a few, as he himself would admit, had hi- that 

 knowledge of his business which he could obtain in 

 the leisure hours of a single winter. Still i 

 himself a }nwt;,;i1 farmer. In twenty \ 

 shall have fewer such, for our youn^ men have the 

 mental capacity and mental energy nee. ary to r 

 them to the highest point of practical education, and 

 to that point they are gradually but surely ri-' 

 AVe have far fewer now than twenty ye 



Let us now place this same farm in the hand- f 

 an educated and understanding cultivator; and at 

 the end of five years, look at it again : 



He has sold one half of it, and cultivates but titty 

 acres. The money for which the other titty I 

 sold has been used in the improvement of the farm. 

 The land has all been under-drained, and >hows tin- 

 many improvements consequent on such treatment. 

 The stones and small rocks have been removed, leav- 

 ing the surface of the soil smooth, and allowing tin- 

 use of the sub-soil plow, which, with the under-d: 

 has more than doubled the productive power of the 

 farm. Sufficient labor is employed to cultivate with 

 improved tools, extensive root crops, and they invari- 

 ably give a large yield. The grass land produces a 

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