_Suggestions of fuller division of farm labor._--It seems possible, with the improved condition of agriculture and the nearness of ready markets, to attempt a larger use of division of labor in several directions. A group of farmers, well acquainted with the possible advantages, may classify their farms as grain farms, dairy farms, breeding farms, feeding farms and market-gardens. Such a community of interests would find not only the advantages of exchange between each other, as well as the rest of the world, but would soon build up bodies of expert young men in the several specialties, whose work would be at a premium everywhere.
With these interests recognized, still greater division of labor is possible. An expert in the care of trees and prevention of diseases to fruits and vegetables can quickly find employment, and may perfect himself in all the requirements of successive seasons. A dairy expert may find use for his superior knowledge and skill on successive tours among the dairy farms. Every farm large enough to employ several men gains some of the advantages of division by making each man responsible for a definite part of the farm work. The less the workmen are handled in gangs, the better each one's abilities can be trained to meet his responsibilities. These possibilities are greatly increased by every device for diminishing the effect of weather changes. Under-drainage gives large advantages in this direction from lengthening the time during which the same operation can go forward. Means of protecting crops in the field serve a similar end.
Perhaps the easiest application to be made in any neighborhood is a system of marketing, through keeping an expert collector and distributor of produce busy in a limited region. All the waste of articles too few to be carried to market is practically saved, and constant association with the markets of the world is made possible. Especially is this applicable to small fruits, milk, butter and eggs. If this market wagon can also serve to carry the daily mail for all the neighborhood, the problem of rural delivery would be almost solved with a trifling expense. Even where such a measure is not possible, neighboring farmers may approach such results by combining for market and mail days in a circle, each taking a different day of the week when he will do his neighbor's errands.