5S6 EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



present exemption from these burdens, the farmers of the United 

 States are greatly blessed. May they duly appreciate their sin 

 gular advantages, than which none greater ever fell to the lot of 

 man in his social condition. To them we may apply the beau 

 tiful line of the immortal poet 



O! ter beati agricolae, si sua bona norint.* 



* Thrice happy farmers, if they only knew their blessings. 



