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Show NEW ENGLAND FARMING. Bradatreet'a haa an article which goea to ahow that the New England farmers, drapite all that has been said about improvements in agriculture, are not very prosperous, and that the farma are generally gener-ally email, irregular in shape, that there ia no chance to cultivate large amounts, and to the average aver-age farmer the returns do not amount to much more than about a dollar day. The best explanation explana-tion ot that probably ia that it ia not possible to get blood out ot a turnip. Ths soil is poor, the fsrms sre small, they are hard to eultivate, the climate is not altogether propitioua, and our idea of general gen-eral New England farm (outside of truck farma mar the cities) ia that the best that can be done would be to put four or five farma in one, have but one act of farm implements j one management, get the uneven ground into pasture aa quickly aa possible possi-ble and raise sheep anceattle upon it. In that eaae it would be better to arrange to keep the animals in good order until the winter closed down, and then just ss swiftly aa possible convert them into food ; because the winters consume half the year, And the plan ought to be to take advantage of ths pasture until It ceases in the fall, and then crowd the fattening fat-tening ef the animals just as rapidly aa possible for an early market. |