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or a string, and the trouble is all over; they will cure as 

 well as a shock of corn, and injure less." 



"Well now, I have always intended to take that paper, 

 — but I never had a dollar to spare at the right time to 

 send for it." Now my friend, do you think you did your 

 duty? If you had, would you not have sent for a paper 

 for each of these neighbors, and in a manner compelled 

 them to take them? 



I got five and twenty into circulation "in the way of 

 trade;" can't you? don't be mistaken, — I mean you. — 

 Can't you get one; just one more subscriber; it is your 

 duty. Nothing can sustain this government but an im- 

 provement in her agricultural branches. I don't know 

 how many hundred millions of dollars we are in debt. 

 We? Yes, WE. You and I, and every producer in the 

 government. On that debt annual interest must be paid. 

 Must be paid by a tax on agriculture. Let it be mystified 

 as much as it may, 'tis the only way whereby under 

 heaven that it can be paid. 'Tis the farmer that pays for 

 every rail-road and canal, whether useful or not; and 

 when farmers are so much in debt, it is time they were 

 improving the means to get out. How can they improve 

 without they gain knowledge? How can they gain knowl- 

 edge unless they read? How can they read unless they 

 are provided with papers or books. How can some of 

 your neighbors provide themselves, unless you assist 

 them? Then for once attend to this solemn duty. Don't 

 let your conscience rest one day, until you have procured 

 one more subscriber to this paper. And if you can't 

 procure a subscriber, send yourself and procure another 

 set, (20 if you are able,) and distribute them among 

 your neighbors; you will soon see the leaven work; the 

 corn will come up, the beans will be saved, and you will 

 rejoice at the end of the year, as you think to yourself, 

 "how much good I have done with so small a sum." And 

 here I make you a proposition. At the end of the year 

 if you are dissatisfied that you have followed my advice, 

 write to the publisher and your money shall be refunded 



