1V Advertisement. 
bandry, should retard the improvement this kind of know- 
ledge would promote. The few who engage in the task of dif- 
fusing agricultural knowledge and intelligence, are not assist- 
ed or supported as they merit. They must, however, be con- 
tent with doing all the circumstances and difficulties they en- 
counter permit. They must be satisfied with their own con- 
sciousness of the purity and usefulness of the motives which 
actuate them. The ribaldry of small critics (if any there be) 
who nibble at modes of expression not objects of literary 
scrutiny ; and the feeble sarcasms of those who, instead of 
encouraging, attribute laudable exertions to communicate and 
diffuse agricultural information to personal vanity; or to arage. 
for what such puny (or, in their own phraseology, poney) cen- 
sors call “riding their hobby horse,” must be disregarded. 
The numbers of such hypercritics must be so small, and their 
patriotism so much below the freezing point, that they should 
not excite even the momentary attention of those who wish 
to promote the prosperity of their country. One valuable 
improvement introduced, or made more generally known, 
through their agency, far over balances a thousand verbal 
criticisms, and sour or fanciful strictures. I say not. this 
with any reference to myself (for I have not the presump- 
tion to claim any right to exemptions, or peculiar attention 
to my wishes or requests) but to impress on others, of more 
capacity but little active zeal, a disposition to render to 
their country the service it requires. ‘This is not only called 
for, from those who can furnish the necessary facts, but it is 
more imperatively demanded from those whose talents, and 
literary, as well as other capabilities, can turn facts to the most 
profitable account. 
