The method of farming which is most destructive to the soil is a continuous grain without manures. Espe cially is this'true of land where corn is continuously cultivated. The fault may be remedied by grass crops and dairying. ' Mixed farming is what will bring a revenue to the farmer. Plant everything you need ( for home consumption, and as much more as you have the land for— something to take to market the year round. Pay as you go, and go as you pay. It is not well to invest in those prepar ations which are advertised to increase the amount of butter to be made from a given amount of milk. The amount which can be made is strictly limited by the amount of butter fat which the milk

contains. ' } The idea that a hen must have a ten aere field to forage over in order to lay well is a mistaken one. They will lay better if confined to a small area, pro perly fed and cared for, than with the whole range of a farm. We have kept hens in a yard, and -have had hens forag ing over the farm, anjd know whereof we speak. But to leave out "the properly fed and cared for" part, and the farm range hen will beat;;the hen in the yard. The hen on the ten acres forages about and finds all that nature requires for egg ; production.in a natural way ; but when the hens arc confmed in a yard they -must be supplied with all * the require ments for egg production. Rotation of crops is an important rule in good farming. If it does not.positively enrich the soil, it will at least its impoverishment. He who grows wheat after whoat, hay after nay, for ten years, will find that the fertile value of his farm is virtually gone. Not many farmsjcan stand this drain for even a lesstnumber of years and > return even the seed required to sow it. A change of crop'gives rest, and the soii'a chance to recuperate itself. Many districts of the eouuitry, once famous for their productiveuessfof :wheat and hay, are so no longer, the farms having been exhausted mainlyfby a con tinuous seeding to the same kind of crops. 