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in all its departments. The good dairyman or grazier may 

 be but an indifferent fruit grower ; a successful cultivator of 

 the cereals is seldom equally successful at sheep husbandry 

 or horticulture. The man who has been blessed with such 

 varied endowments, and is a genius of so high an order as 

 to succeed well in all these things, should indeed have a 

 large farm, giving employment to as many young men as 

 possible a model farm a normal-school farm. Such a 

 man should dispense wisdom and knowledge daily, both by 

 word and action, theory and practice, to great numbers of 

 his dependents, assistants, employes overlooking, superin 

 tending, directing everything a Columella in wisdom, a 

 Liebig in science, a Mechi in vigor and enterprise. We 

 see him, by the aid of his manager, gardener, nurseryman, 

 and fruit grower, architect and builder, machinist and 

 blacksmith, civil engineer, chaplain, professor of chemistry, 

 schoolmaster, farrier, surgeon, landscape gardener, &c., 

 practically educating his numerous laborers, so that they 

 may in due time be able to carry much of this weight of 

 wisdom into practical effect, and butter their bread upon 

 the countless millions of uncultivated lands now at the 

 West. 



&quot; But this may be called a mere fancy sketch an ex 

 travaganza. I shall be told that, in this country, no man 

 can succeed by thus attempting to carry on farming by 

 employing so many skilled, educated persons, as it would 

 be desirable he should do, at the high salaries they would 

 require, and that it would be necessary to have the wealth 

 of a Nabob. Well, if the farmer, having the requisite 

 amount of land, hasn t the means to hire them, let him 

 take them into partnership. If he has but the land, and is 

 the true country gentleman of education, experience, busi 

 ness talent and tact, he can easily draw around him the 

 landless, skilled, educated, and industrious persons, to take 



