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commendation of their courses, and an encouragement to 

 persevere in their well doing. 



The plea we make is that a man shall be treated with as 

 much consideration as his possessions are treated. 



A reasoning and reasonable farmer, laying out his plans 

 for work, has two leading thoughts before him — how shall 

 I get the most for my work ? and how shall I get this in 

 the most agreeable way ? 



If two or more means of profit present themselves, he 

 chooses that which he can use to the best advantao-e. 



Tastes and facilities differ. Some enjoy fruit culture, 

 large or small ; some have a strong dislike for it, and very 

 little success. Some prefer to raise grain ; some, roots ; 

 some, grasses ; and, all the other conditions being equal, 

 they will engage in the production of what they have a 

 natural aptitude or cultivated ability for. 



But the conditions are not always likely to be equal. The 

 fields of a large farm are of a varied character, adapted to 

 produce crops of varying kinds. To put one kind where 

 another would do much better, in every respect, is to labor 

 at a loss. Again, to make the same- area do the same ser- 

 vice, year after year, furnishing it no help, is to fail of the 

 utmost benefit. 



Consequently, agricultural instructors say, suit your 

 planting to the elements and condition of your soil ; 

 change the character from time to time, so as to give a 

 chance of recuperation to the soil, or, by some means, put 

 into the soil those elements that are exliausted by the crop 

 Take good care to " keep up the farm." It will run do\vn 



