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Show WHAT IS FARMING ? . ,7 It is something more than staying : on.a' farm. It jjH is something morcthan skinning theoih' It is more than selling hay or potatoes, and' bulky crops unanimalized. Farming is .a business, a profession, a practical and scientific operation whereby the soil is used for profit, and improved under the operation. The processes of nature must be understood and worked in harmony with the chemistry of the earth and air. The processes of the elements' must be understood', if not jn their technical-terms and( language, in that sensible un- , -H derstading, that cotnmon -sense way, that their . ' oyn advantage and capabilities may be turned to best accounts. The lawyer works by law af5l pre- s ; cedent, the phyisciari works by symptoms --ahd in- dications, the merchant by rules and observations, the mechanic by measures and capacities, The farmer must work by all by rules, laws, observa- . J tion and experiment. He must be a practical law-. , . , 'WM yqr, doctor, merchant and mechanic of the vegeta- .1 ble, the animal and trade-world about him". He 1 must.be a skilled workman in the productive, op- erative and commercial circles in which his busi- H ness lies and his sphere of speculation extends. 1 |