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hogs, improved poultry, sleek, velvety cattle and all "jimcracks" of 

 modern agricultural progress — and you will find, in a snug corner of 

 Ben's sleeping room at old Smith's homestead, the choicest agricultural 

 library in the State ; while he is a constant reader of, and paying sub- 

 scriber to, all the book-farm publications in the country. 



No one that knew the old Smith farm five and twenty years ago, 

 would recognize it now. Squire Ben is worth a pretty fortune, has a 

 buxom wife and half-a-dozen children, and though a little corpulent — 

 for he will live well — he is as lively and thrifty a book-farmer as you 

 or I would wish to meet with. [_OJiio Farmer. 



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PBOMOTION— A CHALLENGE. 



The wonderful career of Louis Napoleon is a marvel to mankind. 

 From a wandering pauper, unhonored and unknown, he suddenly rises 

 to the dignity of President of the French Eepublic. His towering am- 

 bition becomes inflamed ; and, boldly converting his Presidency into 

 Sovereignty, he speedily mounts the Imperial throne of his illustrious 

 uncle, and takes rank as Emperor of France ; and as such, becomes 

 entitled, by virtue of his royal prerogative, to kiss his visitor, Queen 

 Victoria, on hotli cheeks ! His boundless ambition, still unsatisfied 

 with the attainment of this supreme felicity, and the achievement of this 

 Imperial position, is prompting him to make yet another effort for a still 

 higher dignity ; and he is accordingly aiming to reach, as the goal of 

 his ambition, the most exalted rank known to earth — he is about to 

 become a Farmer ! ! 



For the attainment of this, he has purchased *' a location," or, per- 

 haps, located a " land warrant " on the old domains of Fouilleuse, near 

 Paris, where he intends to establish a Model Farm, and carry on the 

 business extensively. And, in view of its proximity to markets, and 

 the prices which his garden-stuff and farm-products will command, we 

 think his " loc#ion" a good one for the business, and he will, doubtless, 

 " make the thing pay ! " We understand that he designs, when fairly 

 settled in his new ^-nd distinguished position, to obtain all the best spe- 

 cimens of agricultural implements : whence we infer that he purposes to 

 enter largely into grain-growing. We learn also, that he proposes to 

 collect the most perfect varieties of all the races of domestic animals, 

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