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ries, cabbage, beans, and perhaps cucumbers and sweet 

 corn. Four brood mares could be kept on a fifty-acre 

 place to do the work and raise horses for market. After 

 two seasons there would be three or four horses to sell 

 every year. 



It is reasonably certain that any business man who 

 runs a diversified farm as carefully as he conducts a store 

 can clean up a satisfactory income from year to year, 

 keep up his place in proper order, and have a delightful 

 country home. He also will gain considerably in the 

 appreciation of land, and he has always the satisfaction 

 of knowing that his investment is perfectly safe. 



Let us consider what .two farmers in Illinois are 

 doing to show the earning capacity of land. One of 

 these farmers has 32 acres at Wayne, DuPage County, 

 and operates a dairy of 30 cows, besides carrying a fair 

 variety of poultry, hogs, etc. He also maintains a team 

 of brood mares on the place to do the work. 



This man has observed that cows waste a great deal of 

 land. In a drought they scarcely get a living from the 

 grass no matter how much of a range they may have, so 

 he gives them a small field to run in, and feeds them the 

 year around. He puts most of the place into corn and 

 fills a silo especially for summer feeding. He buys 

 never to exceed $200 worth of mill stuff per year, and 

 pays about $300 for wages. His income for milk, pork 

 and poultry is not less than $3,000. Under his system 

 he cleans up $2,000 a year above living and operating 

 expenses. 



In the other case referred to, the farmer started in an 

 experimental way on 40 acres. He found that ten good 

 cows would give an income of $100 per month, but that 

 he had to feed them in the midsummer about the same 

 as in the winter. He carried this number for two sea- 

 sons, with one hired man. He began with equal caution 

 with hogs, raising from 30 to 60 each season. Then he 



