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especially by those who engage in petife 

 culture, where the produce is more varied 

 and adapted for sale to private customers. 

 On larger holdings where the cultivation 

 is less intense, the produce consisting of the 

 usual agricultural crops and stock, locality 

 is less important, but the land should be 

 within easy reach of a station and a market 

 town. 



There are some questions into which a 

 small holder must look very closely if he 

 intends to achieve success. He may deserve, 

 but he cannot command, prosperity if these 

 are absent or ignored. In the first place the 

 soil must be sufficiently good for his purpose ; 

 thin chalk, sand, gravel, or brick earth must 

 be left severely alone. Far better leave the 

 land altogether and seek a new vocation 

 than waste money, time, thews, and sinews 

 on an impossible holding. Good work has 

 been accomplished, and will be accomplished 

 again, on poor soils, but it is not for men 

 dependent for their livelihood to attempt 

 what, with the means at their disposal, is 

 impossible. The soil selected should be of 

 medium character, deep, and workable in 

 all weathers — the worst excepted — with a 

 single horse, unless the farm is large enough 

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