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Show A LITTLE FARM WELL TILLED. A -little land is much safer for a poor farmer, or in other words, a farmer who has but little capital; twenty acres is better than eighty, or even twice eighiy. Forty acres is too much land tot a farmer of small capital; capi-tal; aud by this we mean two thousand dollars or under, of real money or money's worth. Ic may take less capital, to own and work a forty-acre farm in the west than it does in many parts of the east; but the same principles princi-ples are involved in both cases, and larm machinery is just about as cheap at one point as at any other. Our system of skimming over a good-sized farm and fencing iargc tracts of nearly wild land, is quite enough U keep a farmer with a scanty-capital scanty-capital a poor man, just as long as he continues to waste his forces in such a non productive manner. It does not pay. Pence only such land as is truly productive, and till only such as you can till and enrich, if it be not already a very rich soil indeed. It will pay better to keep a lew good animals than dozens or scores of hundreds of iudif-fereut iudif-fereut ones. T,vo good, well fed cows are worth five or six lean, poorly-fed ones. With less breadth of land to a crop the same can be both sown and gathered in good early season, and not left to suffer by delay a little attention to this matter is very often tbe main difference between successful results. Study to raise more and more from the same ground, and do not raise less and les-, as fully one-half of those who farm land actually are doing. A. F. D. in Country Gentleman. |