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of tillage, are questions of economy and require more knowledge, sa- 

 gacity and foresight; the proximity of present and prospective improve- 

 ments affecting the demand and market; the circumstances that influ- 

 ence the permanence of that demand ; the probability of abundant and 

 permanent supply. And will it not be worth his while to study the 

 same subject, that he may also wisely calculate how he may best supply 

 himself with those numerous articles necessary to him, which he never 

 expects to grow or manufacture ? 



Having answered the questions which arise in clearing the ground, 

 and having made an opening where the earth may be turned out of its 

 ancient bed, he naturally enquires what products he can raise most abun- 

 dantly, what grains and vegetables will be most useful to him for his 

 own domestic consumption and for the animals he feeds, and most val- 

 uable to dispose of in market. Then the modus operandi of producing 

 them, including the time and necessary implements, must engage his 

 attention. 



There is a multitude of subjects connected with stock raising and the 

 improvement and management of this species of property, that have 

 some share in his thoughts. 



Notwithstanding, however, that there is such a multitude of subjects 

 that the farmer must master by experience or otherwise, and so much 

 and such variety of talent and science may be profitably employed, yet 

 there is not, as in other departments of industry, any division of labor. 

 A farm is not hke a workshop where a multitude of men may be em- 

 ployed simultaneous-ly in manufactures — where several articles or pieces 

 of mechanism, in different stages of the process of manufacture, may 

 pass through many hands, each man performing some new operation of 

 which no other has a practical knowledge. One man, in your calling, 

 cannot be exclusively engaged in clearing new land ; another, in fencing 

 and dividing it into fields; another, gauging the soils and deciding 

 what productions can best be grown on particular localities; another, 

 in preparing the ground to receive the seed ; and still another and an 

 additional man for each successive performance. This would be im- 

 practicable. But if there were such a division of labor as is made in 

 mechanics, a more minu!e division than that indicated in the ])receding 

 remaiks would be witnessed. If that were practicable, it would not be 

 desirable. It would diminish the independence of the farmer, and the 



