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case with the house so with the barns. All the conveniences 

 for cattle and sheep pens, for shelter for tools, carts, &c., 

 cannot be enumerated here. I am quite well aware that we 

 all, to some extent, are supplied with buildings, and it is not 

 the purpose of this paper to advise the plan of the individ- 

 ual of unenviable notoriety in Scripture, to " pull down and 

 build g;*eater," but as our buildings are constantly needing 

 repairs, and the increased fertility of our farms demands addi- 

 tional room, can we not, as those changes are required, 

 approximate to our ideal of what a farm home should be ? 

 Who of us, as we have visited our large cities, and have 

 viewed with admiration, mingled with a feeling of not so 

 gentle a name, the splendor obtained by the unequal traffic 

 with the country, have not asked ourselves, have we of the 

 country retained and appropriated for ourselves and our 

 children, our share of the elegancies and comforts of this 

 life? " The tault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our 

 selves that we are underlings." And since the raid for the 

 West has spent itself, shall we not seek to make our homes 

 all that is implied in that word home ? As it is said that 

 man should be judged by the condition in which he is found, 

 so let it be inih. us. " Agriculture," says Washington, " is 

 the most healthful, most useful, most ennobling occupation 

 of man." Brother farmers, let us magnify our calling by 

 surrounding it with all the attractions that lay in our power. 



