9IZEJ OF FARMS, , SB"- 



T)otts in horses, or a method by which he can raisfc 

 double the usual quantity of Indian corn on an acre ; A 

 communicates his discovery or improvement to B, his 

 neighbour, who, although he has a great aversion to 

 book-farming, makes use of and derives great advantages 

 from it on the strength of A's oral testimony. But A 

 isendsan account of his discoveries and processes to the 

 printer, audit is published in some periodical paper, and 

 perhaps finds its way into some volume written on agri- 

 cultural subjects. The whole thus becomes book-far- 

 ming, and not worthy the attention of real, genuine, 

 practical farniers. 



But these absurdities are fast yielding to reason and 

 the lights of science. The time has arrived in Europe, 

 and is fast approaching in America, in which books and 

 the information which they contain, will be considered 

 as necessary to make a man a complete farmer, as -a 

 complete physician, lawyer, or divine. 



SIZE OF PARMS. 



The size of farms is a subject on which much has 

 been written, and respecting which a great diversity of 

 opinion prevails. It is impossible to lay down any pre- 

 cise or universal standard, as so much depends upon the 

 nature and situation of the country ; the character, skill, 

 and capital of the farmer ; and a variety of local cir* 

 cumstances. 



It is well observed in the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Repository, that on this topic, perhaps the people of no 

 country are so little practically instructed as ours. Tliis 

 arises from the condition in which the agricultural in- 

 tere-st has been placed from the time of tha first settle- 



