ITINERARY OF THE YEAR'S 

 WORK 



JANUARY 



NEW YEAR is a splendid time to make good 

 resolutions, and none will be more advantageous 

 to the farmer than the determination to start 

 records. It takes very little time to keep de- 

 tailed account of each animal's achievement 

 after the system is once organized ; and the long 

 winter evening is just the time to do the cleri- 

 cal part of the work. Give each animal a num- 

 ber, if you are too practical to name it. Have 

 a book for each variety of stock kept: cows, 

 sheep, pigs, horses, poultry, etc., etc., and an- 

 other one for crops. Number or name each 

 field. Our system is simple in the extreme: a 

 page is devoted to each animal ; the date of birth 

 or purchase heads it. For a cow, the opposite 

 page is devoted to milk and butter records, as 



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