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coat " to attend market dinners, and incur other 

 needless expenses. To succeed he must copy the 

 practice of the Continental occupying pro- 

 prietor of the same size farm, and work every 

 day on the land himself. The secret of the 

 success of small farming is work. Many larger 

 farmers follow this course and succeed, but the 

 great majority do not, and fail, and ascribe their 

 failure to the land and bad times. 1 



1 Regarding the larger farmer, the writer has recently 

 paid his annual visit to a yeoman friend, who owns and 

 cultivates about 300 acres of land. He keeps 7 horses for 

 regular work on the farm, and has at the present time 20 

 mares and colts for the purpose of breeding and sale. He 

 has 50 milking cows and about 50 bullocks and heifers. 

 He and his wife are up at 5 o'clock in the morning to begin 

 work. He works with his men, whom he pays well and 

 treats well, and consequently he has the pick of the neigh- 

 bourhood. As regards dress, during working time he can 

 scarcely be distinguished from the men whom he employs. 

 His house is well furnished and has all the signs of refine- 

 ment in the form of books, paintings, music, etc. It is an 

 ideal life, and to the writer's knowledge this yeoman is fast 

 saving money. This example is quoted to show how a 

 farmer can prosper by dint of work on his own land. 



