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and as it passed around the first and second time, turning over the earth 

 with an easy and graceful motion, the curiosity and wonder of the mon- 

 arch was greatly excited. At the third round he pulled off his cap, 

 threw it upon the ground and exclaimed, "that instrument is worth 

 twenty wives." This is the estimate which a king in Africa puts upon a 

 plow : that is the standard by which a man, unacquainted with the plow, 

 measures value. Farmers of Wisconsin ! surrounded by wives and daugh- 

 ters whom you honor, love and cherish, you should remember that a 

 woman is noAvhere so pure, nowhere so highly estimated, nowhere so 

 nobly influential as in those rural districts where the science of agricul- 

 ture is most highly and successfully cultivated. The best managed farm 

 is almost sure to display a farm-house equally well managed, and a 

 family circle over which woman presides with equal cheerfulness and 

 grace. There, woman displays, within her proper sphere, all the 

 homely virtues as well as all the social refinements for which God and 

 nature fitted her ; there, she presents the happy medium between the 

 vile slavery to which barbarism reduces her, and the imaginary inde- 

 dendence, after which modern Bloomerism is wildly and vainly striving. 

 But I was arguing that skill in agricultural science, demanded the at- 

 tention of the American Farmer. Whatever is worth doing at all, is 

 worth well doing — whatever it is expedient or necessary to do, should 

 be done in the easiest, quickest and most efficient manner. As labor is 

 the source, or constituent, of all capital, it follows that whatever doubles 

 the product of a day's labor, doubles the capital of the laborer. This 

 principle may be extended and carried out through all the branches of 

 agricultural pursuits. Not only the labor-saving implement or machine 

 practically increases the farmer's capital, but every improvement in 

 seed, in the mode of cultivation, in the time and manner of doing 

 work, and in the adaptation of soils to crops, and crops to soils, 

 must add correspondingly to the product of any given investment. 

 So, also, every improvement in the breeds of cattle, horses, sheep, 

 or other domestic animals, and the modes of rearing, training, keep- 

 ing and managing them, must cheapen the cost, while it increases 

 the product and adds to the value. It requires no wizard to teach us 

 that the mode of culture adopted now, in this State, is superior to that of 

 the ignorant savages, whose corn hills still dot the surface of the earth 

 in many places around us. Those savages would have been surprised, 

 could some prophet have informed them, one hundred years ago, what a 



