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agriculture; and he who attempts farming without them, 

 expecting to derive the full advantages of his soil from tho 

 labor applied to it by the aid of experience alone, whether it 

 be of sixty, or six thousand years, will find himself mistaken. 

 Aside from the benefit to bo derived from the application of 

 science to cultivation, in connection with ordinary experience 

 and labor, which are also indispensable to a just result, there 

 can hardly bo a greater source of pleasurable contemplation 

 to a thinking mind than is to bo found in tho operations of 

 tho various combinations and admixtures, by which vegetation 

 is produced, promoted, and perfected to its greatest possible 

 development. The beautiful chemical illustration at the end 

 of this chapter is in point. ED. 



