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system, it is no wonder tliat the farmer complains of hard times, and 

 that the starved soil gives a starveling living, to its stupid cultivator. 

 Science, also, will enable him to economize in stocking his farm. 

 It is the opinion of our best stock-farmers, that twenty-five per cent, 

 can be added to the amount of milk, obtained from any given num- 

 ber of cows, simply by selection. The average yield of cows, in 

 New England, through the entire year, is estimated at four quarts a 

 day. A good selection, then, without a change of keep, or increase 

 of care, will add three hundred and sixty-five quarts of milk to the 

 annual yield ; and ten dollars and ninety-five cents to the income of 

 each cow, every penny of which, is profit. Some farmers keep fifty 

 or sixty cows, and they would make a clear gain of five or six hun- 

 dred dollars, per annum, over present profits, at the outlay of only a 

 little judgment, if they only knew how to judge. 



If the ordiuary farmer gets his one hundred and fifty pounds of 

 butter, from each cow, the educated farmer will get his two hundred. 

 If there be a clear profit to the one, of two hundred dollars, from this 

 branch of his business, there Avill be a clear profit of three hundred, 

 to the other. This is equally true of every kind of stock, kept upon 

 the farm, from that noblest of quadrupeds, the horse, to the most 

 despised of bipeds, the more-plague-than-profit dunghill fowl. The 

 farmer Avho knows how to select the best stock, and to reproduce 

 them, in their perfection, will make each and all, large profitable. 

 It costs but little more to raise a thorough-bred colt, than one, whose 

 pedigree is as obscure as that of a Hottentot. The spirited, well- 

 grown, and well- trained animal is worth a small fortune, in the mar- 

 ket. The spiritless, awkward, ill-formed beast is dull of sale, at the 

 purchaser's own price. Every creature of God will pay its way, just 

 as it is well-cared for. And the same is true of all vegetation, that 

 flourishes upon the farm or in the garden. Quite as much depends 

 upon the selection of seeds, as upon the mode of cultivation, and the 

 philosophy of the fact is obvious. It is with seeds, as with animals; some 

 have a great deal more vital force in them, than others, of the same vari- 

 ety. Put a good seed into the same soil, with one that is weak in con- 

 stitutional energy, and the former will more thoroughly appropriate the 

 aliment within its reach, will obtain a larger size and mature more 

 fruit, and that of a better quality. Feed the same quantity of grain 

 to an ox in sound health, and to one whose digestive organs are dis- 

 eased, and the one will lay on flesh and fat, while the other will 

 waste, or at least gain nothing. Seeds are subject to disease, and 



