OCTOBER, 511 



If a farmer does not make 10 per cent, on his 

 capital, he must either have a bad farm or bad 

 management, or the times must be unfavourable. 

 He ought to make from 12 to 15 per cent. 

 Some farmers make more, when corn is at a fair 

 price. 



There are circumstances which mny make it 

 advisable to a man, in stocking a farm, to abstain 

 from any system of live stock for the first year, 

 upon soils, the pastures of which admit mowing; 

 and cases in which the gaining a good stock before- 

 hand, of hav and straw for litter, may add to die 

 motives of such delay. In such circumstances, it 

 is prudent to buy the team only ; to mow all the 

 grass of the farm (or hay, and to stack and thatch 

 safe and securely all the straw: to have such a 

 plenty one year before-hand, is very valuable and 

 convenient, and will afterwards place him much at 

 his ease. 



SETTING THE FLOCK. 



In stocking the farm, our young firmer will 

 have to determine on the breed and system of sheep. 

 I shall here give one caution, and that is, to be very 

 careful that he do not enter into such expences in 

 buying fashionable breeds, as may cripple his exer- 

 tions in more necessary objects. 



SERVANTS. 



This is the time that farming servants are chiefly 

 hired, and the attentive cultivator should consider 



well 



