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profession. Why? Because they are reading men. They 

 are disposed to look to every source of information by 

 which they can gain knowledge in the profession of farm- 

 ing, as well as law. One of this class is Judge Cone,^ an 

 attorney of this place, who, though far less interested 

 than many other gentleman, seems to take a delight, 

 whenever he visits New York, in strolling through your 

 great agricultural warehouse, looking by the hour at the 

 great improvements which have been made in all the 

 implements of husbandry, since the day when the old 

 clumsy wooden moldboard Carey plow used to kick his 

 shins upon the rocky hills of Connecticut. And that is 

 not a long age ago, for there I, too, learned the trade of 

 plowman, by the same ill-contrived machine, and an equal 

 amount of hard kicks. 



Mr. John Cunningham,^ merchant, manufacturer, and 

 planter, is another of the gentlemen of Greensborough 

 worthy of mention and commendation in every agricul- 

 tural paper in the country, for he is one of their most 

 active and influential friends. He says wherever these 

 are taken and read, men improve, and the crops are in- 

 creased one hundred times more than the papers cost. 

 Mr. C. has done a great deal toward introducing improved 

 tools among the farmers of Green county, and is con- 

 stantly trying by words and example to induce them to 

 adopt such a system of tillage as will renovate and restore 

 to fertility the old fields that now blot the fair face of 

 nature, and make this once rich and lovely land look like 



'Francis H. Cone, born September 5, 1797; died May 18, 1859. 

 Judge of Supreme Court of Georgia and member of state legisla- 

 ture. Knight, 0]). cit., 2:359. 



* John Cunningham, planter. Interested in wheat culture in the 

 South. Established a mill on the Augusta Canal with James L. 

 Coleman, and advertised prizes for the best wheat grown in that 

 vicinity. Offered wheat at his mill in even exchange for corn. Ad- 

 vocated and practiced deep tillage. Member of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Southern Central Agricultural Association. South- 

 em Cidtivator, 6:169 (November, 1848), 9:56 (April, 1851) ; Amer- 

 ican Agriculturist, 10:341 (November, 1851); American Farmer, 

 4th series, 4:412 (June, 1849). 



