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!N"o wonder, then, that " the best form of the Plow 

 is still a matter of disagreement." It must ever be 

 so, as long as Clay and Sand are things as opposed 

 in nature to each other as positive and negative. A 

 stiff clay under a moist climate, the greater its me- 

 chanical disadvantage, and its intrinsic chemical 

 superiority, (and both are fully admitted,) the more 

 it seems to call for a revolution in its mode of cul- 

 ture, for a system peculiar to itself. In the arts, as 

 well as in morals, "Difficulties are opportunities." 



the best of the three, must know nothing beyond what can 

 be gathered at the nearest school, learn his father's trade 

 no, it is not a " trade/' it comes by nature and be a farmer. 

 Was there ever more mistaken action in a father toward his 

 children ? Educated they should be, to the very top of 

 their faculties ; and so educated as to command the teeming 

 earth to yield its treasures to the application of skill, labor, 

 and science, working together in harmonious effect upon 

 soils of any description whatever, which may come under 

 their control for we have little doubt that any soils exist, 

 (we do n't mean rocks,) which, by a reasonable outlay of skill 

 and capital upon them, may not be made subservient to 

 profitable cultivation. ED. 



