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that it is done with good clean seed, and well done, even if the fields- 
are smaller. Do nothing in the way^of tilling the soil, by halves. Re¬ 
member that ten acres well tilled will yield as much, and often more than 
twenty shabbily done, and at a double profit. Save all manure from the 
first, and distribute it carefully on those portions of the farm that will be 
most benefitted by it. Whatever is done in the way of procuring stock 
' and animals, should be done as w r ell as possible ; if you cannot get the 
best breeds, get the best you can, and then improve them by good atten¬ 
tion and good keeping. Keep no animal about your premises, even a 
pig or a chicken, that has not enough to eat, and comfortable quarters. 
No man is so poor, but what he can make some kind of shelter for his 
stock ; but many are so lazy and shiftless that they do not. What kind 
of a Christian can that man be who leaves any animal, dependent upon 
upon him for food or shelter, to suffer, when by proper care it could be 
avoided? I envy not such a man his humanity, his Christian spirit, or 
his hope of happiness. In a word, let each farmer stick to his farm with 
a perseverance and determination of purpose, devoid of all idle dreams 
of selling, shifting or speculating. Let him take at least one good agri¬ 
cultural paper, and read it, and profit by its suggestions. One who does- 
not do this, has no connecting link between himself and the more intelli¬ 
gent portion of his class, and ‘ is not posted up/ The farmer of the 
present day who does not read the papers, agricultural as well as politi¬ 
cal, and attend the county and state fairs, as well as the caucuses and 
elections, is an old fogy indeed, and a long ways behind the times. 
One of the most gratifying signs of the times is, that not only the man 
of slender means, but those of wealth and affluent circumstances are 
turning their attention by thousands to the improvement of farms and to 
the various pursuits of agriculture—what more fitting or profitable em¬ 
ployment for capital, or for gentlemen of taste and leisure ? Is it not a 
perversion of correct taste that prompts so many hale, hearty and vigor¬ 
ous men, in the prime and manhood of life, to shut themselves up in the 
crowded cities, in dusty dirty offices and shops, to pursue uncertain vexa¬ 
tious professions and callings, to the exclusion of the more safe, noble 
and healthful employments of agriculture? That the employment of 
Rather Adam and many of his noble descendants, is rapidly rising in im¬ 
portance and character, is a fact beyond question; and let us hope that 
the next few years will show abundant evidence of it even in Wisconsin, 
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