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things or any two of them. Neither can an}^ one man 

 conduct successful!}" all kinds of farming; life is not 

 long enough to enable one to hecome an expert in all. 



Darwin, the distinguished naturalist, declares that 

 " apparently, it transcends the power of the human intel- 

 lect to breed all kinds of fancy pigeons," How much 

 more difficult for one mind to grasp and manage suc- 

 cessfully all kinds of farming ? 



The farmer having chosen a speciality in accordance 

 with the above principles, let him persevere in it, and he 

 will certainly succeed, take one year with another, pro- 

 vided he pursues a system of high culture. For I know 

 of no kind of good ftirming that does not pay well; 

 while no kind of poor farming will yield more than a 

 poor living. Nor should it. Of course, any man who is 

 a man, and cares for the comfort and happiness of his 

 family, whatever his specialty may be, will see to it that 

 abundance of vegetables, fruits, small and large, milk, 

 eggs and poultry are grown upon the farm, for family 

 use ; for these pay. He will see, also, that a suitable 

 piat be carefully prepared, and that the women and girls 

 of the family be amply provided with the means of stock- 

 ing it with at least a few choice bedding plants, annual 

 s^nd perennial flowers and shrubs ; for these pay. 



Does he select the dairy or the raising of milk for the 

 market, let him be sure and test the quality of milk 

 from each cow, with a lactometer, and he will be sur- 

 prised to find how mean some of his animals are. I 

 "have recently tested the milk from each of my six cows. 

 and find that the milk of one yields only from one to 

 eight per cent, cream, different milkings varying in qual- 

 ity, while the milk of the others yields from ten to 

 twenty per cent, cream. I had every reason to suppose 



