From thr Ne.o Englond Farmer.
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SMALL FARMS MOST BENEFICIAL.

 Those who have strictly investigated the subject, consider large farms comparative W less productive than sniall ones; while they at the same time impose upon their owners degree of labor much greater in proportion than would seem to be required by the mere difference of size. A farmer in moderate circumstances, with fifty OF sixty acres of land, for instance, will bring every inch of it into high state of cultiva- tion-the labor employed in preparing his grounds will be more than doubly compen- sated in his subsequent exemption from .oil ; while the owner of a wide spread ter- ritory of three or four hundred acres, which he has but sparingly supplied with nourish- meni, must work sedulousiy upon every a. ere during the progress of vegetation; and after all reap but meagre and inadequate harvest. As single acre of land highly cultivated, can be made to yield a crop C. qual 10 three or four scantily prepared, it must be obvious, that the extra labor in dressing the former, is abundantiy more than saved by the diminished labor in at tending it. A striking exemplidcalion of this fact may be viewed by any of our far mers, who will take the trouble to visit the grounds attached to the House of Industry at South Boston-there, they may have the theory and illustration directly before their eyes. These grounds, it is said, have pro- duced this season, from three to four tons per acre-which is two or three times the quantity of ordinary crops. So exubeIant was the grass that there actually was not room, upon the surface where it grew, sui hcient for the purpose of making the hay. And this was entirely owing, as we are told to the previous pains taken to enrich the soil by plentiful additions of suitable com post.

 Were the same policy pursued by the owners of large farms, there would be lite tie need of emigrating from the New Eng land to the Western States for the very tracts, which now, under a careless system of culture, barely afford sustenance for a single family, might be made to support three or four, and that too with much less toil and trouble, in proportion to the quan- tity cultivated. Many of our farmers grasp at the management of too spacious terri tory--the consequence is, they impose up- on themselves a state of slavery; they ac- cumulate nothing, except now and then an additional patch of land, which serves only to increase their toll. Were they on the contrary to confine their exertions to small Ter spots, while their crops could be rem dered equally if not more abundant, they would themselves enjoy life better--beeome more independent, and, with better share of frugality, more wealthy; they would acquire time to institute experiments and to examine improvements they would at tain what they scarcely now ever possess leisure e-whereby we mean, not the privl- lege of being lazy-but that sort of leisure which poor Richard describes as q time for doing something usefGl-time for study,