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wealth where it is needed. There is a pleasure, likewise, in 

 contemplating the skill and architectural taste displayed in their 

 structure, the beauty of their arrangements, and the luxury and 

 splendor with which they are adorned and furnished. But often 

 they are mere monuments of vanity and display ; they are a 

 serious drawback upon the resources of the proprietor ; they are 

 much beyond his wants and convenience ; they involve a neces 

 sity of a style of living which sometimes brings with it as 

 much vexation as pleasure ; and the wealth which is expended 

 upon them is locked up, to a great extent, in a profitless disuse, 

 or otherwise may be considered, as far as it exceeds the neces 

 sities, or convenience, or uses of the proprietor, as irrecoverably 

 thrown away. 



But how different are the results of the application of wealth 

 to the purposes of agricultural improvement ; in converting land 

 which is waste into that which is productive ; in the employ 

 ment of the poor in useful and healthful labor ; in increasing the 

 means of human and brute subsistence j in advancing the real 

 wealth of the community ; in the actual creation of wealth with 

 out loss or injury to any one ; in making improvements, which 

 have in themselves a reduplicative energy, so that the more 

 improvement is made, the more the power of improving is ex 

 tended and enlarged ; in exhibiting an example of skill and suc 

 cess which excites no ill-will, because it injures no man s in 

 terest, but is every where beneficial, and prompts to a wholesome 

 emulation ; which leaves behind it not traces drawn in the sand, 

 to be obliterated by every wave which time rolls upon the shore, 

 but which are to endure for generations and centuries to come ; 

 and which, in truth, constitutes one of the most honorable and 

 enduring monuments, which a reasonable and well-disciplined 

 ambition of posthumous reputation and fame can desire or seek 

 after ! 



7. SOILS TO BE DRAINED. In reviewing this important subject 

 of the drainage of land, one, certainly, of the most important 

 connected with the art of husbandry, I deem it best to recapit 

 ulate some points, which have been partially noticed, and are to 

 be deemed established. 



The removal of water from the land is, then, in all cases, 

 indispensable to a successful cultivation. Where it proceeds 

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