Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1874 — Too Much Land. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Land.

In the West we are inclined all the time to farm too much land.— We spread out our efforts at farming on this scale till what we really do is so thin that we have small results for the outlay. A sensible writer says that eighty acres is a large farm for one man and team. Even if he has but a few acres in grain, he has too much to do, when farming another acre, if he farms right. This is a lesson that the small farmers must teach to the larger, for a fearful amount of shiftless farming is done by the latter.— lndiana Farmer.