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throughout the globe must work, Us that they 

 must eat. They must ply well their brains and 

 their hands, or the table even of the cottager 

 will lose its plainest viands. Persons brought 

 up in cities, are too apt to think that grass and 

 corn, beef and mutton, grow as matters of 

 course ; and that the countryman has nothing 

 to do but to cut and eat. I hope to be able, 

 before I have done, to shew my young friends 

 that this is quite a mistake. 



We will now take a little notice of those 

 processes of moving the soil, which constitute 

 the art of tillage. 



The plough is, and has been, the grand im- 

 plement of husbandry for this purpose, amongst 

 all civilized nations. The form and power have 

 varied much, as they now do in different coun- 

 ries; but the intent and general result have 

 >een the same as far back as the ancient coins 



