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try to make a doctor, a lawyer or a minister of any of them. If you 

 have got a son that don't know enough to be a farmer, doubtless he 

 will find it out in due time himself, and will pursue some other meana 

 of obtaining a livelihood. The reason why so many farmers' sons re- 

 fuse to follow the pursuit of their fathers. Is because they are educated 

 in exactly the right way to make them disrelish it. If the father 

 would teach his sons the nature of the different kinds of soils; instruct 

 them in the ait of analyzing those soils, and in the qualities necessary 

 to the growth and production of the various kinds of grasses, grains and 

 vegetables; would teach them to apply their scholastic knowledge to the 

 business operations upon the farm, would give them agricultural books 

 and papers to read, from which they could learn all about the nature of 

 the different kinds of diseases of horses, cattle, sheep and swine, and 

 the manner of curing those diseases ; in short, if fathers would study to 

 make their sons interested in all their farming operations, and would 

 make their homes as they should be, comfortable, agreeable, and 

 pleasant, very few, if any, would be willing to exchange the pursuit in 

 which they had been so thoroughly educated in early life, for the un- 

 certain chance of gaining distinction or wealth in some occupation they 

 are yet compelled in toto to learn. 



As a proof positive of the superiority of the advantages of a farmer's 

 life over that of all others, we would mention the fact, that within the 

 last few years thousands in every direction, in every part of the country, 

 have abandoned mercantile, manufacturing aud professional life, and 

 are now engaged with all their means and all their energies in the pursuit 

 of aoTiculture, proud of their calling, happy in their new vocation and 

 merrily singing as they go forth about their daily avocations, 



The farmer's life i» the life for tee, 



I own I love it dearly, 

 And every season full of glee 



I take its labor cheerily ; 

 To plow or low, to reap or mow. 



Or in the bam to thresh. Sir; 

 All's one to me, I plainly s«e, 



'Twill brinL' mo health and cash, Sir. 



