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(Office ; he held the plow or drove, and used a species of plaster which 

 enabled him to stick to his business. 



To illustrate the same idea in regard to orchards, I will read an extract 

 from a writer in the Albany Cultivator, showing Avhat effect diflerent 

 Ai'eatment produced on trees : 



" We have often urged," he says, " the importance of clean and mellow 

 ■culivation for young trees, to promote growth ; and for older ones to fur- 

 nkh fruit of fine quality. Young trees in grass ground, from necessity 

 /sko.uld be widely spaded ; but even this treatment is quite imperfect, and 

 Qjecomes nearly useless as they advance in size, and throw out roots far 

 fceyond the reach of any ordinary spaded circle. We have just mea- 

 sured a few trees differently treated in this particular. Small peach trees 

 i^t out six years ago, and kept cultivated broad cast most of the time, 

 Ivave trunks a foot in circumference, two or three feet from the surface. 

 Those in similar soil, but kept spaded in five feet circles, in grass, are 

 ,^niy eight inches in circumference, although ten years old." 



lA is a prevalent idea that a farmer can do nothing without capital. 



My observation is, that men without capital in the commencement, have 



.possessed themselves of what has been brought in by others. The man 



who takes money out of a farm, is a belter farmer than he who puts it 



• ia, B. showed his wisdom by investing in the railroad, for without a 



crailroad to Madison, farms in the interior are comparatively worthless. 



Madison, with a railroad, will be the Utica of this State, and will make 



x3-ld Dane the Genesee county. The railroad will soon arrive at our bor- 



t-ders — will this county do anything to extend its progress ? 



Decision of character is essential to the farmer's success ; to decide 

 -mud to execute, is an important item in the affairs of life. Decision is the 

 grand secret of success ; it is allied to firmness ; it is never borne down 

 l)y pleasure, apathy, or indolence. The farmer who cannot rise with the 

 glorious sun, and Avho takes no care that his implements are in order 

 until the time of action, will never come off victorious. The loss of one 

 day, in the crisis of affairs, sometimes works a serious loss, besides the 

 ■sinking of those high hopes and that buoyant courage which disastrous 

 ^nanagement always produces. The loss of a crop from neglect at the 

 proper lime to secure good seed, from deferring to some other time, the 

 present duty of replacing a single loose board or a rail, from neglect to 

 manure the soil, or to properly cultivate it, causes the worn, thread-bare 

 aexclamation, " farming won't pay." The Creator gave this beautiful 



