XVIII. 



"TALP A" LOQUITUR. 



AMONG the various experiences which the much 

 more social Agriculture of the last twenty years has 

 brought, (for a great change has come over us in 

 that particular since well nevermind how long 

 ago I was going to say ) there is none which has 

 struck me more than that part of its philosophy 

 which consists in the operation of mind upon mind. 

 That of "min<} upon matter" is not a very new 

 subject : we see it every day and hear of it too, 

 till it is something tiresome : just now we are on a 

 different theme, and a less trodden : " mind upon 

 mind " is our point at present, and perhaps the 

 more important of the two, after all. I was going 

 to say that in a pretty long and intimate experience 

 of a rather curious soil to deal with, and to which 

 never did man, horse, or implement, deny the epi- 

 thet " stiff," I too, like them, have had my own 



