Cato^s Farm Management 



When you inspect the farm, look 

 to see how many wine presses and 

 storage vats there are; where there 

 are none of these you can judge what 

 the harvest is. On the other hand, it 

 is not the number of farming imple- 

 ments, but what is done with them, 

 that counts. Where you find few 

 tools, it is not an expensive farm to 

 operate. Know that with a farm, 

 as with a man, however productive 

 it may be, if it has the spending habit, 

 not much will be left over.^ 



as from want of care or want of means in those who 

 had possessed it, was left untilled and unplanted. 

 He used to say that well cultivated land cost a 

 great sum of money and admitted of no improve- 

 ment, and he considered that land which is unsuscep- 

 tible of improvement did not give the same pleasure 

 to the owner as other land, but he thought that 

 whatever a person had or bought up that was con- 

 tinually growing better afforded him the highest 

 gratification." 



1 Every rural community in the Eastern part of 

 the United States has grown familiar with the con- 

 trast between the intelligent amateur, who, while 

 endeavoring earnestly to set an example of good 

 agriculture, fails to make expenses out of his land, 

 and the born farmer who is self-supporting in the 

 practice of methods contemned by the agricultural 



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