CHAPTER XXIV. 

 CONCI.TJSION. 



System. 



There is one thing especially necessary in con- 

 ducting the soiling system successfully. It is not 

 capital as some might suppose, for men without capi- 

 tal are usually the first to adopt it. It is also un- 

 necessary that a man should have a large farm 

 stocked and equipped, because the system is equally 

 well adapted to a limited number of acres. 



Nor will only those be successful who live near 

 large cities, where land is high. Whatever may be 

 the condition of the land, it is safe to say than the 

 amount of land that will keep one head by pasturing 

 will keep four or five by soiling. The rule works as 

 well on cheap land as on high-priced land, the latter 

 not being necessarily more productive than the 

 former. Therefore, if from land worth $25 per 

 acre, a farmer sells as many dollars' worth of prod- 

 uce as on land near the city worth $200 per acre, 

 the soiling system is as profitable to the one as to 

 the other. The difference in the profit from soiling 

 will be found from the productiveness of the soil, 

 and not necessarily in the price of the land. If on 

 a farm worth $100 per acre a farmer can keep one 

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