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Let economy be lacking and hard labour is thrown away. This principle, studied diligently, the necessity of contracting debts will scarce ever appear.

Always milk with dry hands. It is better for the cows’ teats, and vastly more cleanly. Some otherwise goo I milkers spoil the milk by wetting the fingers with milk, an injurious, nasty method. There are several prominent lady farmers in Connecticut managing the places left to them by fathers or husbands. They succeed better in many respects than most of the men who are farming. The surest way to determine the value of a theory is to experiment with it. If you do not believe in heavy manuring, or close cultivation, try them on half of a field and omit from the other half. That will tell the story. An English potato-grower of 50 y'ears’ experience has always found the finest flavour in the sorts with yellow-coloured flesh or skin. He deprecates the practice of subordinating this requisite, and nutritive quality, to productiveness and showiness in the production of new varieties. The milkman who apologised for the blue appearance of his milk by saying that “ the weather had been so bad it had given his cows the blues,” was not so far out of the way. Cows give richer milk in bright sunny weather than on cloudy days, especiially when long- continued, and in welllighted stables than in dark ones. It is a great mistake therefore to shut milch cows in gloomy stables. They need sunlight for health and pleasure as well as do human beings.