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also found here. The south-western part of Missouri is 

 rich in mineral wealth, but shows few examples of agri- 

 cultural wealth; and the mining population are of that 

 class that every thing that comes light goes lighter, and 

 they live to day, and live poor too, with no thought of 

 the morrow. Now although money may be sometimes 

 easier made by mining than farming, it is an uncertain 

 business, and does not seem to produce so good a state 

 of society as that old fashioned mode of making a good 

 living at least, in the cultivation of the earth. But the 

 business withdraws an immense amount of labor from 

 cultivation, and profitably employs a large amount of 

 capital, and furnishes a market for all the surplus prod- 

 uce of the few farms in the mining region. I must not 

 forget to mention one of this class who I found in the 

 vicinity of the Mammoth Diggings, Willard Frissell, Esq. 

 whose rich and well cultivated farm has enabled him to 

 live free from the temptation of mining some of the rich 

 mineral hills which skirt the fine bottom land that he 

 has in cultivation. Having long been a reader of the 

 Cultivator, I found myself warmly welcomed as an old 

 acquaintance, and rested with him over a lovely sunny 

 day, the last Sabbath in this month. But I have to 

 charge this man, and I doubt not the charge will fit many 

 other readers, with a failure to profit by what he has 

 read. His only water is "toted" up a long steep hill to 

 the house from a spring at the foot, when right by the 

 side of that spring runs a stream of water, that if ap- 

 plied as directed by Mr. Bement, would bring a constant 

 supply from the spring to the house and as "time is 

 money," would save enough every year to pay the ex- 

 pense. Reader — I mean you, don't apply it to your 

 neighbor — have you profited by what you have read, any 

 better? If not, now is the right time to do so. If you 

 have no spring to make run up hill ; I'll bet a bucket of 

 cool water you have a well as hard as lime can make it, 

 and no cistern to make your wife look so good natured 

 "wash day." 



