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to do a certain piece of work. It is loss in dollars and cents. Farm 

 labor can be and should be accomplished on schedule time. 



Don't expect your help to beat the sun two hours in the morning 

 and still be in the middle of their afternoon's work when it sets. 

 Allow them regiilar, reasonable hours; proper, airy quarters; good, 

 wholesome food and plenty of it; and fair wages to boot. Overlook 

 any one of these and the others go for naught. You can't obtain 

 and keep good help without them all. 



Skilled help turns out most work with least fatigue. 



The most successful men never hurry. They plan ahead. 



Chores aren't boys' work. Scientific balanced ration feeding 

 means cheaper and full capacity production, materially reducing 

 costs. 



Results depend no more on what you are doing than on the things 

 you are not doing, or doing wrong. 



The kind of farming and breed of stock you like best will pay 

 you the largest profits. It is not necessary to practice the kind 

 followed by the majority. 



You don't have to go to Aroostook to raise potatoes, or west to 

 raise beef or mutton. Proper crop rotation will produce the potatoes, 

 and soil cropping the pastures will increase your milk, beef and mut- 

 ton production. 



New England farmers have the advantage of markets near by. 



Statistics prove the trend of travel from the west and Canada to 

 be towards and not from New England. Look well to your methods 

 and opportunities as you are now located. 



Convince yourself by proper accounting methods where your mis- 

 takes were; take a new lease on life and the Old Farm and you'll 

 be surprised at the opportunities so long overlooked because they 

 were near by. 



In no other trade in this country to-day has the student the ad- 

 vantages of the farmer. Knowledge is yoiars for the asking, either 

 of the department at Washington or state colleges and boards of 

 agriculture. 



It is vitally necessary that you have your name put on the mailing 

 list. Address Division of Publications, Department of Agi-ieulture, 

 Washington, D. C. You then receive each month a list of pamphlets 

 published, most of which are free, from which to select those applj'^- 

 ing to your needs. Write for it to-day. 



Any man, however successful, who doesn't keep records and take 

 account of stock frequently, can be shown where he is losing money. 

 He may shoAv a large yearly profit, but in some department, were 

 records kept, a loss would be shown that was greatly reducing his 

 legitimate profit. 



