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Excerpt from County Arkansas The great trouble, in a money-making way, with most of the American farmers, is, that they do not place0 a roper estimate upon the small things. Branch of industry has suffered more from this neglect than farming. In the older countries of the world where the population is dense and land for farming scarce, necessarily the little things must be studied and utilized in the economics of the farm. In China and Japan the farms consist of only a fraction of an acre and the man in Germany who cultivates ten acres is quite an important personage. In some of the older states of t is country farming is conducted upon a few acres, but in this great unlimited outdoors of the Central and Southwest the trick has not yet been learned to fence in only a few acres and to cultivate. These in a manner to yield large results. Too much energy is still being wasted-in the effort to get one hundred bushels of corn from five acres, when an acre and a half should produce the same quantity. Only a few years ago in South Missouri and Northwest Arkansas, the farmer thought he had performed his full duty when he planted his fields in corn, wheat and oats. If he had his crop planted in good time and the season was favorable, he sometimes came out ahead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.