Small Farms Best

Tlierc has been somc lament over the tendency in this country to mass great arcas of real estáte under one management, and feara have been expresscd that, in the West, at least, we shall sorae time exiperieace the evils of landlonlism whieh have cursed older parts of the workl. But su;h fears appear to be groundless. We have no law of entail, and the probability that tin si; vast areas will remain ander a single management for more than one or two gonerations is rat hor small. The big tarms of the West are provino; comparatiye failures. Dalrymple, ihn Dakota farmer, and Glenn, the California nabob, have not succeeded wcll. The Sullivan faini in Illinois has been cut up, and the work of subdivisión is more likely to go on than that of aceuniulation. Tlie Toronto Globe points out that great farms reiinire a vas; amoUDt of maehinery, which, to bc made profitable, nyist be kopt at tho same work year alter year. The most successful farmers of the West are those wlio own compar.it i vely sniall farms, which they can keep entirely onder their own supervisión and manage with little help, and improve rather than deteriórate, by a proper rotation of crops. A still botter example of the superiorjty of small farms over big ones is found nearer home, in tlie markot gardens ncar the great cities. Sonu: of the line.sL of these we know of aro in the vicinity of Boston. Fpr au example, there is one of five ör six acres within the liniits of that city, whioh produces Is OWIMW :i clcar annuul incuiiic, of from s.;. ijiio ti $ó,üOO. Instead of spending hls nionc-v lor nuvcliiiKuy and labor, the farmer devotos his capitul larely to the enriohment of liis gfonnd. The aniount of manure he applies to his few aerea seems almost wasteful, but the rosults prove his wisdom. Within two or thrce weeks he has markuted from a sniall patch 175 worth of string beans. I lis early potatoes are already dug and have broaght him something like $2,OüO, and the ground whem theygrew ia already at work prpduQing a second erop of vegetables. The aiuouut of "tl'UCk" wllioll In' II a irlgrs to Sl'clirc from his few acres, wuiüS ii' aboat hi house and barns, is re&Uy Baai'velous, luit. the seorel is lii-jii cultivation and a itittó method. The aame method niu bfi aiilii'i anywhefe in Mas n i-lrtisotto, anl the lawdling nw.-iy over Miiidrcils ut' sftros, atjd ettingonly half .". erop, and :it the same time itnpoverishing the soil, in this shcerest folly.-