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THE GROUNBSWELL. 



is simply marvelous. How many farmers understand the 

 processes by which it is accomplished, or can realize the 

 immense measure of force and energy expended by nature in 

 producing his twenty to fifty bushels of corn per acre ? How 

 many appreciate the important fact that it is in his power to 

 assist nature in economizing a portion of this vast force, by 

 enabling her to produce ten, twenty, thirty bushels more 

 of grain per acre than his land now yields? Hardly one in 

 a thousand; and why? Simply because they have never 

 been educated to their calling have never been taught to 

 use their senses aright; to store their minds with useful, 

 expansive knowledge; or to reason from cause to effect, and 

 from effect back to cause. 



&quot;IN THE SWEAT OF THY BROW.&quot; 



Since ninety-nine out of every one hundred men and 

 women have to earn their living by actual labor, is it not 

 better that they know something about that business in its 

 several departments, rather than to know all about some one 

 particular department? It is this knowing something of 

 many things that makes the practical man ; the knowing all 

 about some one or two special things, the scholar. This 

 knowledge comes slowly, as gray hairs grow, to a thinking 

 man. What we want is to hasten the ripening of this prac 

 tical knowledge among the masses, through schools especially 

 devoted to the departments of science relating to agricul 

 ture and other industrial pursuits. 



A man may be a good chemist and botanist ; may under 

 stand the anatomy and structure of animals, with their 

 diseases and the remedies necessary to their cure; may 

 understand the nature and composition of soils all these 

 without being a farmer; nevertheless, if a farmer, he can not 

 have studied the several branches in their bearings upon 



