Show SMALL FARMS ali Di alint clr la ti way ol 01 culture tho greatest didi culty experienced in making the farm pay is that too much hnud is cultivated aliis camo to tho writer ono year ago alion by tho mistake of a hired man a heap of manure intended or a livo acro field was all over two acres and ibo acres was left untouched the field was to bo planted to sweet corn foi market tho yield of tho two was better than would have beba expected over tho aholo live aud chii was no doubt in consequence of the excellent cultivation given to keep down alio abundant growth of weed the hrco was fertilized with artificial manure and yielded a fair crop was so enuch gain moreover abo tiro acres produced a heavy crop of millet after tho sweet corn was which wag so much more gain every year the writer is more andioro that tho farmer who would have the courage to work only liala his land and put ou it the o and labor lio would litho put upon tho whole of it would find ins enterprise well rewarded it may be koruc encouragement for those farmers who arc worrying over the problem of liow to make a living on one hundred acres of laud to know that a farmer who is a well known writer upon dairying and who lives near rochester makes a sufficient living from five acres his little farm is in apples and raspberries rasp berries ho raises corn and potatoes and keeps ono cow wholly by tolling and a allock of forty liens tho fowls bring him in more than 0 which indicates alio caso with which ho produces over clear profit from his little farm well tilled it Is as great a credit to aliis for ho is both a gentleman and a scholar that this moderate living matches his well earned competence and that his own hands alono and his family in comfort and the luxury of desire and a healthful and happa old age ivo can not refrain from adding thai this exemplary gentleman and farmer it arof L J arnold the acknowledged standard authority upon dairy matters in america and a scholar and student A 1 |