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This style of farming will not prosper in these days, 

 when steam and the iron horse have brought the prair- 

 ies, with their limitless extent of surface, and unequal- 

 ed soil (and all for a dollar and a quarter an acre) with- 

 in such easy reach of the seaboard. 



We must adapt ourselves to the change of circum- 

 stances thus introduced, and raise something that will pay, 

 on a scale large enough to pay, or New England farming 

 will come out " at the little end of the horn." 



A farm in our county may be well adapted for dairy 

 purposes, or for sheep raising ; it may present facilities 

 for growing root crops, or for market gardening. It 

 may include favorable situations and soils for apples, and 

 pears, or for the cultivation of hops, or grapes, and the 

 other small fruits. Any of these products, if the soil 

 and aspect be suitable, and the access to a market easy, 

 can be made profitable with the right management. Graz- 

 ing and dairy farms do pay nobly in New England. 

 There are towns which (without facilities for the sale of 

 milk) have prospered and become rich by the manufac- 

 ture of butter and cheese. In certain districts, and 

 under certain conditions, sheep raising is profitable ; as 

 the example of Mr. Edwin Hammond, and other Ver- 

 mont farmers, fairly demonstrates. Market gardening, 

 on the right kind of land, and in the vicinity of a mar- 

 ket, pays w^ell. There are instances enough to show 

 that root-crops may be remunerative in New England ; 

 and, it is worthy of remark, that the cost of transport- 

 ing such bulky products as these, saves us from the ne- 

 cessity of competing with the West. It has been 

 abundantly proved, also, by experiments in France, that 

 the cultivation of beets for the purpose of making su- 

 gar, is not only feasible, but is also profitable to such an 

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