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applying thfc manure to the clover, as this is getting the lever 
under the very center of gravity of the farm. If this point 
be lifted, the whole farm comes up with it. The practice of 
hauling manure directly from the stable as often as a load is 
made, and spreading it upon the land, is growing in favor 
among agriculturists. If left in the yard without being well 
cared for it suffers great loss—more than can come from 
spreading it even upon the snow. If left in the yard to rot, 
a year’s use of it is lost. 
It is essential to success, not only in our sandy lands but in 
all western farming, that sufficient stock be kept to consume 
all the coarse products of the farm. Whether hogs, sheep, 
horses or dairy should be kept, must be decided by the tastes 
and experience of the farmer. In many cases the farmer will 
not have the capital necessary to start successfully in that 
which would suit him best, but he must have his plans thor¬ 
oughly mapped out in his mind and work them out as time 
progresses. In this article I have been careful to recommend 
no processes which are expensive or extra laborious, but such 
as are within the means of ordinary farming; and if the culti¬ 
vation of our sandy lands is made profitable, it will be by such 
means; for laborious and expensive systems will not be adopted. 
