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■ choice seed must be a clean profit over and above all that is realized 

 from planting the inferior kind ? What is true of corn is true of wheat, 

 of oats, of potatoes, and of every other crop. Farmers as well as me- 

 chanics, should have a particular place for every tool they use, and when 

 they have used it, make it an invariable rule to put it back in its place, 

 recollecting that every moment spent in looking up a lost instrument is 

 time thrown away as well as vexation, disappointment, and sometimes 

 feehngs of anguish indescribable. " A place for every thing, and every 

 thing in its place," is a saving of thousands in time, and time is money. 

 It is a saving of the temper, of a great deal of fault-finding and scold- 

 ing, and a certain saving of the article which otherwise might be lost. 



From the rules which we have already laid down, (and we might 

 enumerate many more,) it may easily be discovered why one farmer 

 succeeds in making money while his neighbor is always poor, always in 

 want, always wondering at the hardness of his lot, always grumbling at 

 the common dispensations of Divine Providence. It may, also, as 

 easily be perceived how every man is the author of his own success, his 

 own prosperity, his own failure, his own adversity. It is all nonsense 

 to talk about fatality, as though one man was born to be rich, while 

 another man was certain to be poor. 



We care not where the young man is, nor who he is, with ordinary 

 abilities, if he will buy him a farm, go to work upon it with the deter- 

 mination of being a good farmer, do everything well and in its proper 

 time, plant and sow nothing but good seed, always raise good cattle, 

 sheep and horses, always make good pork and observe order in taking 

 care of his tools, save everything he raises and let nothing run to waste, 

 and it will be but a very few years before such a young man will be 

 independent. On the contrary, let a young man commence an agri- 

 cultural life without any settled rules, do everything at the halves and 

 just when it happens, pay no regard to the kind of stock he raises, or 

 the seed he sows, lay every tool where he uses it or where it is most 

 convenient to let it drop, take care of nothing and waste everything, 

 and it is impossible in the nature of things, no matter how hard he 

 luay labor, for such a man to be otherwise than poverty-stricken, and 

 that continually. 



Fellow citizens ! in our remarks thus far, we have made no eflfort at a 



■ display of oratory or rhetoric. We have intended only to be practical — 



