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A Tare Line In The Cornfield

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
December
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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The farmer who does nol weigh and measuro is like the unuriner at sea without log or oompass. Ho cauoot know with uertainty whether he is driftinjc towards loss, or advaneing toward gain. He wurljs in the dar. But if ha can weigh apd meagure, be kiiows what practipe to reject and wbat tp , adopt, making a diflerence of many thou8and dollars in the long run. j ery farmer should, therefore, have and use ïiot only a tape line, but a half bushel, a measurofj wngon-box, a graduated granary, at.d especially a platform 6cale, that he may regularly weigh evory animal, to aseertain what fciocj and mode oi feeding is most profjtable, and weigh every lyad of gntin or of hay, to determine the product and tbe amount he is going to have to spare, and to know the wuight of every animal that he offers in market, without the unccrtainty o) mare guess work.- Thero e no way by which a man muy leai n to be a moxey making farmer fas; er than by Ibis practico inteüigently canied out. ÍFS' Experimental philosopby- Aslsing a young lady tn marry y-- Natura! philoeopïiy- Looljing indiffereDt and syying you were only i?. ft,

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus