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sequence of our negligence, then the course marked out for us is clear;. 

 Where a thing is lost, there the place is to find it. We must then, if 

 we have any regard for our own worldly gains, any for a laudable name 

 at home or abroad, improve our stock. This can be done. I might 

 deliver a long lecture in telling how, but this is not the occasion. I 

 only say, if we will take the j-ight course, before a quarter of a century 

 has passed away, when the humbug fever is at its raging height, as it 

 undoubtedly will be, once in ten or twelve years, until the Yankee blood 

 is all exterminated from the land, our children will sell the Kent cattle, 

 sheep and hogs, far above the English Ayrshires or Short Horns. The 

 whole secret is told in a few words — select the best for the best purpo- 

 ses — take good care and keep no more than you liberally feed. 



The last thing I mention for our prosperity, is education. An opi- 

 nion is too prevalent, that farmei-s and mechanics want but little more 

 education, than simply to read and wi-ite. This is erroneous ; there is 

 no class that would enjoy literature better than they. When we are in 

 all our agricultural and mechanical pursuits, daily using implements, that 

 lessen our labor and facilitates our business, it must be interesting to 

 know the chain of causes and incidents that have suggested, completed 

 and presented them at our hands. 



Mechanical science and arts have, and are now doing more for the 

 advancement of agriculture and the mechanical ai-ts, than all other 

 things combined. Accident may discover, ingenuity suggest, but it is 

 mathematics, chemistry, geology, and other departments of natural sci- 

 ence, that have invented the countless number of labor-saving machines 

 to thresh our grain, to convert it into flour and bread ; our wool into 

 cloth, (and if the sewing machine succeeds,) into garments ; our forests 

 into lumber, and an endless variety of implements of agriculture and 

 the mechanical arts. 



It is science that has compassed the earth, tunneled her rivers and 

 her mountains, traversed her seas, her oceans, and her continents, laden 

 with her rich products, independent of the winds of Heaven or the 

 muscle of the horse. It is this that has tamed the lightning of Hea- 

 ven, and rendered safe our dwellings amid her storms, and sent 

 thought with electric rapidity from pole to pole. Shall we farmers and 

 mechanics, have no aspirations after such knowledge? We, by whose 

 Jabors all these improvements are supported, and not sip, even at the lit- 



