SOME POINTS IN PRACTICE 



planter, press-drill, potato-planter and 

 digger, horse-hoes and cultivators, roller, 

 sub-surface packer,^ mowing-machine, 

 wagon, hay-rake, etc. 



Size of the Dry-Farm. 



The question is often asked, "How 

 large should a dry-farm be?" This is a 

 purely local or personal question gov- 

 erned by the land laws of individual 

 States. If it were practicable it should 

 depend on the family unit. That is to 

 say, can a farm of a quarter-section, 160 

 acres (Homestead Law), afford a suffi- 

 cient acreage to support the farmer, his 

 wife and four or five children ; or does it 

 require half a section, 320 acres, as under 

 the new Mondell Law,^ or a whole sec- 



^ A sub-surface packer is not essential, and should be 

 used with great care on wet or heavy soil. 



2 This Act, which was approved February 19, 1909, pro- 

 vides for an enlarged homestead. This Act provides for 

 the making of Homestead entry for an area of 320 acres 



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