the surface and soil of a farm should be carefully studied, 39; misconception of the similarity of prairie farms, 39; a Northern farm selected for illustration, 40; preparatory steps in laying off, 40; care necessary, 40; a pasture to be first selected, 40; what it should be, 41; the one great error in relation to this matter, 41; weeds inseparable from pasture, 42; treatment of a pasture, 42-3; it should have a rude shed, 43; fodder to be brought to cattle, 43; "too much" land and tree planting, 50; farming in Westchester County, N. Y., 51; management of grass lands a test of farming, 152; THE FARMER'S CALLING: chap. xxxi, 183; merits of farmers as a class, 183; the author would have advised one of his sons if spared to attain manhood to become a good farmer, 183; difficulties attending the farmer's calling, 184; author's reason for recommending farming as a vocation to his son, 184; no other business in which success is so nearly certain as it, 184-5; farming conduces to a reverence for honesty and truth, 185-6; it is conducive to thorough manliness of character, 186-7; advantages the farmer enjoys in that respect over persons in other pursuits, 187; incidents of the author's experience as a journalist in this regard, 187-8; independent position of the true farmer, 188; difficulties a young farmer encounters as a pioneer, 248-9; considerably obviated be co-operation, 250; co-operation admits of wider application, 250-1; fencing as an illustration of the want of co-operation, 251-2; wide adaptability of co-operation, 252-3; Mr. E. V. de Boissiere's co-operative farm, 253-4; farming in Colorado, 265; mistaken calculations of inexperienced farmers, 299-300; summing up: the farmer's calling, 308; American farming, 309; good farming is and must ever be a paying business, 310; thorough tillage, 310; choosing a location, 311; prudence enjoined, 311-2; the greed for land, 312-3; shallow culture, 319; need for study and inquiry, 320. FARMS: LARGE AND SMALL FARMS, chap. xlix, 292; naked magnitude has fascination for most minds, 292; some men can farm a township, 292; large farmers, 293; the opportunities and expectations of the small farmer, 293; making money from small farms, 293-4; large farming can never enable us to dispense with small farms, 294; evidence thereof, 294; fruit culture, 294; the production of eggs and the rearing of fowls, 294; the inducements offered to fowl-breeders, 295; this industry should comment itself to poor widows, 295; the growing of market vegetables, 296; the profits realized therein; 296; general conclusions, 296-7.