Farming To Advantage

I havo known two kinds of industrious farmers. I do not include the sluggish and negligent. But of the real hard workerB there are two distinet classes. They both riso at dawn aud work after dark, and are worthy of success ; but one olass fails for want of proper thought and management. These will put their energies into one piece of work and neglect other things which need them more. I knew one man who was so intent on finishing a board fence, that he worked hard at it atthe very time that the weeds in his root erop grew froin ono inch high to ten inches, increasing the labor of cleaning out at least ten-fold and reducing his erop at least one half. Another buys costly tools and Iets them rust and rot in the fieids because he is busy with something else, although the labor of housing would be a mere nothing. Another builds a costly barn, and uses up his means for manuring, cultivating, and draining, when cheaper buildings would havo answercd. Another works a wet field year after year at great cost and inconvenience, and with sniall resulte, because he is to busy to underdrain it. He does everything at a disadvantage. Very different is the course of the good manager. He looks at all his work - has it mapped out bef ore him- estimates accurately the labor to accomplish each job, and the time when it should be dono to prevent loss, and then goes on systematically. It does not require a great genius to do this, but common senso, and for the farmer to keep his wits about him. This is what makes a man practical and cessful