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looking over the farmer s old accounts, he found 

 that the farm had paid well before his death, and 

 knowing no reason why it should not still do so, 

 under proper management, agreed to take the farm 

 himself. He had been eminent as a gunsmith, and 

 now commenced as an agriculturist. Knowing 



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literally nothing of farming, he began by reading 

 all the books and papers on the subject which fell in 

 his way. He had not read far before he found that 

 a knowledge of chemistry lay at the foundation of 

 good husbandry. He therefore put himself under 

 the tuition of an intelligent working chemist until 

 he made himself a good practical chemist for agri 

 cultural purposes. He then applied this knowledge 

 by adapting his manures to the quality of the soil 

 and the nature of the crop he intended to raise 

 from it. 



The result was that the neighbors, who began by 

 ridiculing the &quot; cockney farmer,&quot; and who prophe 

 sied his ruin in three years, were glad, at the end 

 of that period, to go to him for advice about their 

 crops. His own crops of grain, hay, and roots, were 

 the admiration of the whole country, and his wheat 

 would often command more than the market price 

 for seed. At the end of the fourth year, in making 

 up his account, he found a balance of twelve hun 

 dred pounds in favor of the farm. Such was the 

 result of science diligently acquired and judiciously 

 applied ; and by such tfceans, without any previous 

 knowledge of the subject, did one who had been 

 eminent as a tradesman become equally eminent as 

 an agriculturist. 



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