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but wo do doth) to be made up to suit our own habits and 

 wants. 



The two extremes of husbandry arc, the adoption of 

 y novelty and every experiment indiscriminately, and 

 the rejection of every new thing and every improvement, as 

 indiscriminately. Wisdom consists in " proving all things 

 and holding fast that which is good." We do not advocate 

 large outlays for expensive machines for fancy cattle; for 

 every new thing that turns up. But when, after full trial, 

 it is ascertained what are the best farm horses, the best 

 breed of cattle, the best milch cows, the most profitable 

 breed of hogs and sheep, and the most skillful routine of 

 cultivation, we think our farmers ought to profit by the 

 knowledge. It is never a good economy to have poor 

 things when you can just as well have the best. This, then, is 



OUR CREED. 



We believe in small farms and thorough cultivation. 



We believe that soil loves to eat, as well as its owner, 

 and ought, therefore, to be manured. 



We believe in large crops which leave the land better 

 than they found it making both the farmer and the farm 

 rich at once. 



We believe in going to the bottom of things and, there- 

 fore, in deep plowing, and enough of it. All the better if 

 with a sub-soil plow. 



We believe that every farm should own a good farmer. 



We believe that the best fertilizer of any soil, is a spirit 

 of industry, enterprise, and intelligence without this, lime 

 and gypsum, bones and green manure, marl and guano will 

 be of little use. 



We believe in good fences, good barns, good farmhouses, 

 good stock, good orchards, and children enough to gather 

 the fruit. 



We believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a spin- 



