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it can be, all the strength that a human arm can wield in a year, might 

 easily be exerted in a day. To this end, how desirable is a smooth, 

 stumpless farm. The exigence requiring the stumps to be dug or drawn 

 out, will tend to augment the value of the farm by the additional beauty 

 that will thus be given to it. It is the obvious interest and duty of the 

 farmer to encouiage by impartial tests, and liberal patronage, that spirit 

 of improvement and invention that promises so much for the advance- 

 ment of your calling in dignity, profit and usefulness. 



Another suggestion of economy not less important than these to 

 which I have adverted, but transcendently more momentous, is how the 

 farmer can best employ himself, how he can most profitably exercise his 

 own energies, without prematurely impairing them or contracting dis- 

 ease; for it is a higher economy than that involving mere gain or loss 

 as these terms are used in commercial transactions, to give the body 

 health and agility, and head and heart vigor and vivacity. No success 

 in business, no worldly advantage whatever, can adequately compensate 

 -the loss sustained in the permanent derangement of the bodily organs, 

 •or in the stooping infirmities by which are sacrificed the nobleness of 

 man's natural attitude, the princely bearing that the Creator intended 

 should distinguish him from animals of a lower order, and " creeping 

 things." 



There is a commendable self-love ; we naturally love ourselves, and 

 it is proper we should do so to a certain extent. We must provide for 

 ourselves. If afflicted we sufier the pain ; if poor we are they that have 

 poverty; if unhappy we suffer discomfort. If repulsive morally or 

 physically we cannot escape from ourselves, and it therefore becomes our 

 interest to render ourselves as agreeable to ourselves as possible. Hence 

 it naturally occurs that a man feels a degree of satisfaction when he 

 can possess a valuable thing which he can appropriate to himself and 

 emphatically call his own, without being subject to challenge by another 

 having equal pretensions. This satisfaction springs up instinctively in 

 the human bosom, like parental affection in the maternal heart, and sub- 

 sists almost as independently of the ' comparative merits of its object. 

 It results from the exercise of the moral attributes, and rises to its 

 height where we witness a prominence of those intellectual faculties 

 which evince the most decided individuality. For whatever be the con- 

 stitution of mind, if it exhibit any characteristic traits, it will at the 



