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an increasing reward. When you have seletced a dairy, and 

 keep it bo that it will turn you 600 or 700 pounds of cheese per 

 cow each year, and have improved your farm so that it will keep 

 twice the number of cows that it will now, }'ou will have both 

 1 wonderfully reduced the cost of production and increased your 

 pro I its. 



Importance of Education. Do not despise book-learning, but at 

 once avail yourself of its benefits. There is a vast amount of 

 knowledge " lying around loose," waiting for some one to pick it 

 up and make it available on the farm. You can find time to learn 

 a fact or master a principle every day that will ten times repay 

 you for the time and trouble of acquiring it. Science is scattering 

 knowledge broadcast over the world, and it is your business to 

 help in utilizing it. It will not only enable you to make more 

 money, with less exhausting labor, but give life a new interest 

 and make you feel that it is worth something to live in the world. 

 The time has come when our farmers must be educated. From 

 mere drudges and the producers of raw material for the rest of 

 the world, they must soon become the most intelligent class of 

 men among us. No field of knowledge must be altogether un- 

 familiar to the farmer of the future. Chemistry, Natural Philoso- 

 phy, Botany, Entomology, Geology, Meteorology, Physiology, 

 Comparative Anatomy — these and many other branches of science 

 he must have at least a general knowledge of, and with some he 

 must become familiar. He should understand his own' physical 

 structure, and his own physical and moral nature. The principles 

 underlying animal and vegetable life must be mastered, and he 

 must understand the habits and characteristics of the insects, 

 worms and weeds that he has to deal with, as well as he does the 

 needs and wants of his stock. The composition of his soil, the 

 kind and quantity of manures which it requires, and the demands 

 of the crop which he is about to put in, he must know, and pre- 

 pare to accomplish his end with the same intelligence, care and 

 certainty that the chemist produces his results. There is no 

 position in the world which requires so much knowledge and 

 judgment as that of the future farmer. By the side of his, that of 

 the professional man sinks into the shade. At present, the latter 

 h is his library and reads up for a special purpose, while the 

 farmer, who lias much more need of knowledge, both special and 

 general, has no library, and seldom looks into any book but the 

 Bible, with an occasional glance at the almanac. This must not, 



