522 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



my part, I would sooner dig ditch or pick stones for my 

 daily bread than to do what some of these gentlemen seem 

 obliged to do for a living, viz. : induce their fellow men to 

 go into litigation to settle their difficulties, which, in most 

 cases, could be settled with less than one-half the cost of a 

 law-suit, besides the saving of many heartburnings that often 

 last for a life-time. 



All of the profession, of course, do not do this — there 

 are many honorable exceptions, but their ranks are so over- 

 crowded that self-interest leads some to do disreputable 

 things to obtain a livelihood. 



Not such are the temptations incident to a farmer's life. 

 No calling is so fi-ee from those insidious snares that so 

 often engulf men of other pursuits. 



Does our young friend aspii'e to the enviable distinction 

 of a preacher of the Gospel ? If so, w^e bid him God 

 speed ; for here the harvest is so great and the laborers 

 so few, we dare not hold any back from entering th& 

 vineyard, only that we may remind them of the admonition 

 of the Prophet, that some " run before they are sent." 



The Held of the physician is an important and useful 

 one, and happy is he wdio wins golden opinions from those 

 whose lives he has been instrumental in prolonging for 

 a season, and whose griefs he has assuaged ; but it is quite 

 a question whether we are not all doctored too much for 

 om- good ; at all events, the failures are many and the bur- 

 dens onerous in this profession. 



We might speak of the various other occupations that 

 are useful, many of them indispensable to our mutual com- 

 fort, but which have their corresponding drawbacks and 



