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to find as much favor, and as many adherents in the 

 end, as the others have done. 



He has not only originated these improvements, or 

 been the first to give them practical experiment, but he 

 has laid down certain principles which will doubtless 

 exercise much influence in shaping the industrial 

 economy of agriculture hereafter in different countries. 

 One of the best of these principles he puts in the form 

 of a mathematical proposition. Thus : As the meat is 

 to the manure, so is the crop to the land. Tell me, he 

 says, how much meat you make, and I will tell you 

 how much corn you make, to the acre. Meat, then, is 

 the starting point with him; the basis of his annual 

 production, to which he looks for a satisfactory decision 

 of his balance-sheet. To show the value he attaches to 

 this element, the fact will suffice that he usually keeps 

 65 bullocks, cows, and calves, 100 sheep, and a number 

 of pigs, besides his horses, making one head to every 

 acre of his farm. With this amount of live stock he 

 makes from 4 to 5 worth of meat per acre annually. 

 Perhaps it would be safe to say that no other 170 acres 

 of land in the world make more meat, manure, and 

 grain in the year than the Tiptree Farm. In these 

 results Mr. Mechi thinks his experiments and improve- 

 ments have proved 



Quod es demonstrandum. 



