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your premises without stint, as I have described, only 

 using more if you please ; and, depend upon it, you 

 will reap far more than 6 per cent., or 12 either, on the 

 cost of the labor. 



857. It is not more certain that a snow-ball, in 

 thawy weather, will grow by rolling down hill, than 

 that good farming — -feeding the land well — tends to bet- 

 ter ; and that had farming — starving the land — tends to 

 worse. The good farmer always grows a better far- 

 mer as life advances. I have seen this out and out. He 

 gets a fair profit on his crops, and an additional re- 

 ward in the increasing value of his lands. The bad 

 farmer gets but a small profit on his crops, and loses 

 that in the diminished value of his land. Poor and 

 discouraged, why should he not grow a worse farmer ? 

 It is the very tendency of his course. It is hardly 

 possible that he should make any other progress than 

 from bad to worse — poor manuring, poor crops, a poor 

 farm, and a poor man. Well, he must turn over a 

 new leaf; and the very starting point of good farming 

 lies in the generous husbandry and plentiful applica- 

 tion of the home manures. This consideration, so im- 

 portant, as I view it, has made me unwilling to leave 

 this subject sooner. 



