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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Name. 



English hay.... 



Clover 



Potatoes 



Corn 



Barley 



Oats 



Peas 



Beans 



Fat beef, alive.. 



Fat mutton 



Fat swine 



Fine butter .... 



Cheese 



Milk 



Unwashed wool. 



The choice of stock will depend upon so many different conditions 

 that each one must answer it for himself. But whatever choice is 

 made, stick to it. Put all the available resources of yourself and 

 your farm into it. Make everything else secondary to the main 

 object, study all the details ot the business, and expect success. 

 Feed stock whose natural tendency is to convert food into the pro- 

 duct desired. Sir Joshua Reynolds was once asked by a young 

 student, with what he mixed his paints to produce such wonderful 

 colors upon canvas — such effects of light and shade, such magnifi- 

 cent stretches of landscape. His reply was : "With brains, sir! 

 I mix my paints with brains." Now let us all who would renew 

 our wornout fields, increase the number and value of our herds, or 

 add 3'early to our income and to the beauties and comforts of our 

 homes mix our colors with '■'■brains " and we shall have no reason 

 to belittle our calling, or look longingly towards the blandishments 

 of every other profession. 



