Show keeping accounts s if a farmer know knew exactly the cost of raising each baeb kind of crop he could determine dete imme whether it would pay him better anav to give a u ap P some kinds alto gether and use the field for some thing else it is not a difficult mat ter to keep no nn account of the cost of the seed and the value of the labor required for any particular crop and knowing this a man can readily do tor tormina mine the yield whether wh s ther any profit has boon made if thi this 8 account shows a lossee will bo be prompted to examine critically the of his land to his crop his mode of tillage the quality and condition of his bid seed whether the fertility of his bis soil is too much exhausted etc the farmer who keeps such an account will be likely to make a careful study of everything relating litlo tb the matter when he would give it no cona COlla idera iders tion if jibe he kept no account thep en jams offered at fairs faira etim the competitors to do their bes best t in pro da doc to tion a and the examination of at the exhibits stimulates all I 1 those koge who attend it is thus that fairs have an improving Q effect afe a t U upon a farm products the ma managers 0 of bairs fairs see the necos sity pity of requiring a careful account of the cost of the product exhibited this forms a mode of comparison for other farmers they lind find that the larger arger the crop the less it costs per bushel aabol or per hundred and the bum beav or er the animal at a given age the jess a it costs per hundred pounds farmer armor who an account of his crops and the enst cost of growing his bis animals is is compoI compelled lied to seo see this it in la the small crops and the slow growing adars that coat the be most keeping strict account of every thing also shows shown f farmers armors t that hat their farms really pay better than they have given t baem hem credit for they seldom credit the farm with what is is con consumed slimed in in the family this is is of course a large item what is is consumed in in the family i is s as valuable as a 11 like amount sold when the farmer gives proper credit for home corn cam barn P he will be better reconciled with his profits as a whole national livestock live ine stock journal |