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the profits of the fnrm, besides the improvement of the prop- 

 erty ; and if my proposition is correct, then cash and high 

 culture are the true finger-boards to successful farming, as all 

 will agree. Why not adopt the plan at once? There's the 

 rub. IIow to get at it is the thing. Some are so deeply in 

 debt that they think they can not adopt the cash plan; and so 

 many a poor sinner wants to believe in the Saviour, but hesi- 

 tates to lay hold on the salvation plan, still delays and tries to 

 work himself into a more acceptable state with his God, but 

 only succeeds in heaping sin upon sin on his poor soul. And 

 the planter, in trying to get out of debt by going in debt, is 

 getting in deeper all the while. The present southern farmer 

 has to be regenerated — to be born again — to go to his cred- 

 itor, like the sinner does to his Saviour, give up all he has, if 

 necessary, and start a new and better life. 



I believe, sir, farming can be made to pay; I think we have 

 cause for encouragement if we can profit by past experience, 

 and appreciate the lights before us; and what avocat.ion is 

 there in life more desirable than farming, what occupation can 

 afford more attractions, what more free and independent, and 

 where on earth ought woman, the true wife and mother, to 

 find more real happiness, where more contentment than as 

 mistress of some good farmers household ? 



The farmers make a great mistake when they select their 

 dunces for the plov/ handles; they should pick their brightest 

 boys for the farm, and put the fools somewhere else. They 

 may fill some other place, but the farm never. It requires as 

 much brain to conduct the farm successfully as it does to leg- 

 islate in the halls of congress. A farmer ought to understand 

 all the requirements and deficiences of his soil — to be familiar 

 with the agricultural experience and improvements of the 



