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rare sources of pleasure and comfort. It is the most 

 independent of ail departments of industry. It is 

 true, there is a mutual dependence pervading all the 

 classes of society, but none have to rely so little on 

 the capricious patronage of their fellow-man as the 

 successful cultivators of the soil. Every farmer 

 should take a pride in his ennobling profession; he 

 should feel that he is a member of that class upon 

 which our country is chiefly dependent for its wealth 

 and prosperity. The farming interests lie at the 

 foundation of our national greatness. The farmers 

 nourish, and enrich the nation. 



The land- holders of our country are the conserva- 

 tors of the present patriotism. They are always the 

 most stable and reliable citizens of this or any other 

 land. Ko other class of the people have their 

 interests Bo closely and completely identified with 

 the general and permament good of every part of 

 our country none can be more warmly attached to. 

 their native soil and none are found more ready to 

 raise the stiong arm of resistance against oppression, 

 from whatever source it may come. Of course, we 

 speak here of the practical and intelligent farmer. 

 The man of mind one who carries his brains with 

 him to his fields, and who knows, or seeks to know, 

 the "why" and the " wherefore" for all the operations 

 of nature on his fmrm one who has more mind than 

 the senseless clod he crushes under his heel. He 

 puts in practice the deductions drawn from science 

 and experience, and intelligently makes subservent 

 to his will, all the aid which science and the arts can 

 yield him. All th; clap-trap about it being necessary 

 to work the ground with his own hands, to be a 



