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Show SOME FARMS TOO LARGE. Farmer Make a Mistake by Trying to Handle Too Much Acreage. The story Is going the rounds of the press of a man that had a 1,200-acre farm and had three daughters. Aa each got married he gave her a quarter quar-ter of the farm, or 300 acres, and put all his stock and all hla energies on the remainder. To his surprise he found that he made Just aa much money on the smaller portion as on the larger portion. When he had but 300 acres left he found his profits ei large as they had been on the 1,200 acres, and he Was being worried a great deal less. There are many farms that are too large. They are too coBtly to keep up, and their owners cannot manage to advantage. The larger the farm the more skillful must the management manage-ment be, for the greater will be the proportion of work that must be done by others than by the owner. Tills Is the point at which the big farm is put to a disadvantage. A hired worker can never do the work that the owner can, for he lacks Interest. There are a great many large farms, Bays the Farmers' Review, that would be more valuable to the community if they were broken up Into several farms and were sold to different farmers farm-ers that would live on them and be contented with owning one farm and no more. Intensive agriculture must come more und more Into vogue with the Increase of population, but this should be under Individual owners, rather than under a Bystem of land lordism In which the owners are residing resid-ing In the cities and working the lund by proxies. |