484 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



easily enough by misuse. An undue sti-ain upon it, a careless 

 management of it, are sufficient conditions for spoiling it. 



!N"ow a man and his farm are not altogether unlike in the 

 matter of variety in constitution. He is not all bone and 

 muscle, or mind, or spirit, but rather of a covvposite make, 

 into which these and related parts enter ; and these prin- 

 cipal parts have their sub-divisions or peculiar faculties. 



For him to l)e treated, then, as well as his land is treated, 

 the different departments of his nature must receive attention 

 according to their make. They must be used for what 

 they were designed, rested when they have been long 

 enough used, and supplied with the aliment suited to their 

 health and vigor. 



The rest is not properly laziness. One who has long 

 been seated is rested by standing up or walking, and such 

 rest may be a duty. A change of work is often rest, and 

 may be very profitable. The laborer can relieve the body 

 while, at the same time, he stores the mind, and there is 

 gain in both occupations. Both body and intellect fre- 

 quently find ease and good by that which feeds the taste 

 for music, painting or society, or that which exercises the 

 humane and benevolent sentiments. 



Let the whole nature be administered to. This is due. 



The body, we will say, is abundantly employed. Is it 

 being worn out too fast ? Better is it to wear out than to 

 rust out ? Yes ; but better still not to wear out beyond any 

 reason or necessity. 



As a guard against this the mind must control. 

 Then, certainly, the mind ought to have strength in the 

 variety of its faculties. Here the newspaper comes in as a 



