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ing to technical knowledge. So, also, the papers and essays 

 contributed are, many of them, models of their class. 



The educated farmer, in this country, is the exception; 

 the educated horticulturist, the rule. The latter neyer 

 allows any thing to escape his eye that may profitably be 

 published, either in books, or in the journals devoted to the 

 profession. He is constantly educating himself to a better 

 and better acquaintance with the mysteries of nature. He 

 reads, marks, learns, and inwardly 

 digests, continually. 



If one will only educate himself 

 to it, it is perfectly easy to do as 

 the horticulturist does work with 

 the brain while working with the 

 hands. The operator at any labor, 

 except such as is really laborious, 

 as chopping, pitching, heavy lift 

 ing, etc., may employ the brain 

 constantly. If the conversation 

 Usually carried on at ordinary 

 labor were such as to expand 

 the mind, rather than small talk, very small talk, sometimes, 

 the civilized portion of the human family would soon be 

 educated to a point where gossip would seem flat. Does 

 the farmer thus educate himself to the minutia of his pro 

 fession ? The few do, the many do not. 



Brawn and Brains. 



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A prominent feature of the farmers agitation, during 

 1873, was the organized observance of the Fourth of July 

 by the Clubs and Granges. These bodies held meetings, 



