selves in a single season in the saving of 
horse-flesh in their draft. Again, see the 
old, rusty hoes that many of you use, 
bought perhaps twenty years ago ! Take 
out the handies and sell the hoes as old 
iron, and buy new ones, because you can 
do one-third more work, and do it much 
better, in a day with one of the most im¬ 
proved new ones, than you can with one of 
those you use. 
C. Feed your land, if you expect it to 
feed you. Make all the manure that you 
can. as this is the bank that pays your 
drafts and notes. The best farm that ex¬ 
ists may be ruined m a few years by a con¬ 
tinued cropping, without applying manure; 
and put under the plow only what land 
you can fertilize liberally. Adopt a rota¬ 
tion of crops, and keep your pasture and 
meadow land in good condition, as the 
profits on your cows depend on the 
quality of their pastures and the quality 
and quantity of hay that you cut; and keep 
good stock, as a cow that gives twenty 
quarts of milk a day, can be kept almost as 
cheaply as one that gives only five quarts. 
7. “What is worth doing, do well.” 
Put this into your memorandum book, 
where you can see it often. Did you ever 
hear of a slovenly farmer getting rich ? 
No, not one of you. Then do your work 
well, as it pays the best in the end. If you 
are making fences, make them to stay as 
built, for years. A good farmer may be 
known by his fences alone. 
8 . Carry a memorandum book in your 
pocket in which to note down things that 
are to be done, or that are wanted; and by 
so doing; you will save much time. Your 
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team, for instance is going to the village. 
You. refer to your memorandum book and 
you find, “plow-share to be sharpened,” “a 
new helve for ax,” “nut for mowing ma¬ 
chine,” and other things that you would 
not have thought of if they had not been 
noted down in your book; and this may 
save you the time and trouble of sending to 
town the next day. Farmers, there is 
money in head work, as well as in yoiu 
physical strength. 
To-day is pleasant, and you and your 
help are at work in the fields. Now, sup¬ 
pose you think over in your mind “What 
can we do if it shall rain to-morrow, or next 
day, or at any time?” Well, the idea 
strikes you that you have a few hundred 
fence posts in the woods, that could be 
holed on a rainy day, under your barn-shed 
if you had them there; so after dinner you 
send a team for a load or two of posts, as 
the weather seems to forbode rain soon,and 
the next day a storm comes on, and your 
hired men are kept busv at the posts. So 
you see how profitable it is to do a little 
‘ ‘head-work’' occasionall 5 ^. 
9. Don't borrow farm implements of 
your neighbors. This is one of the rules 
that every farmer should heed, as it pre¬ 
vents your neighbors from becoming your 
enemies. If a farmer has a good imple¬ 
ment he had rather, in many cases, give his 
neighbor a dollar than lend such implement 
to him, as, in most cases, it will be returned 
to him injured or out of order. Indeed, if the 
owner does not have to send for it two or 
three days after the time that the borrower 
agrees to return it he may consider himself 
fortunate. Every farmer should buy every 
kind of implement that he may need. I 
once had occasion to use a large stone 
sledge-hammer—one large enough to 
break stones of 200 or 300 pounds weight 
to pieces. A few hours work was all I had 
for it; but rather than borrow one, I sent a 
man to town and bought one for three dol¬ 
lars; and I have found it very useful in 
driving stakes into the ground in making 
fences, and for various other purposes. So 
I say to farmers, don’t borrow, but buy 
what you need. 
Interest tlie Boys. 
Friend Purdy, of the Fruit Recorder , re¬ 
cently said the following in his most excel¬ 
lent paper, to which we wish to add hearty 
“Amen.” He says: 
“Encourage the boys to set out a few 
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cur¬ 
rants, grapes, fruit trees, etc., allowing 
them a certain portion of time to care for 
them, and they will repay you by supplying 
your tables with the delicious fruits, which 
will be far more healthy than so much 
greasy, and many times diseased, pork. 
