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turn, in every field, in every hedge, in every ditch, 

 in your House, in your Dairy, in your Stable, in 

 your Barn, everywhere and at all times, by Day 

 and Night, in Winter, Spring, Summer and Au- 

 tumn the neglect that has been allowed to sow 

 itself, the moral weed-crop, will meet your eye to 

 baffle and torment you with the feeling so truthfully 

 expressed, when you say you "have not a single 

 mind you can depend upon ! " * 



JSTo wonder : you have never tried to make one. 



Else, you would not have your lime overslacked ; 

 as I had, during an unavoidable temporary absence, 

 while my twelve acres of bare fallows were in prog- 

 ress. Lime was all I meant to give them ; except a 

 thorough cultivation. Every ridge was leveled : 

 not an elevation or a hollow remained : the subsoil 

 that had been exposed through the winter was thor- 

 oughly intermixed : the plow and the subsoil-plow 



* When will the American farmer learn that a thorough 

 agricultural education, in connection with a given amount 

 of scientific research, is as necessary for the successful pur- 

 suit of his profession, as that of law, physic, or divinity? 

 No intelligent man who has ever practiced a single year upon 

 the farm, but will be convinced of the necessity of mind, in 

 a much greater degree than is usually supposed, to success- 

 fully act upon the huge mass of matter before him. ED. 



