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wishes ; and of a daily record of operations and results, kept -with 

 business-like minuteness and accuracy, showing at once the cost 

 and receipts, the products and improvements of the farm. Of the 

 different classes of stock, we saw choice breeds of Oxen, Cows, 

 Horses and Swine, which had been selected Avith the greatest care and 

 preserved with unsparing attention to their comfort, nourishment and 

 growth. The farm buildings are all contrived for use, — the most 

 convenient and economical use, — with no expense for mere ornament 

 and show. In the barns and the sties, cattle and swine are at home, 

 and enjoy all the comforts of a proper home. In the house, are 

 apartments for the laborers, provided with every requisite for their 

 ease and enjoyment. A well warmed and lighted reading-room, 

 furnished with many papers of the day, and with books of scientific 

 and general information, invites them to spend their evenings there ; 

 while, in another apartment, a large and well-selected library, contain- 

 ing many of the best Agricultural publications, discovers the resort of 

 the employer for that information which enables him so skilfully to 

 direct the operations of the farm. 



That the outlay and income of such a farm would more than 

 balance each other, — if indeed so favorable a result as this were 

 produced, — we should not expect in the hands of most farmers. 

 That it is profitable, under its present management, we have no 

 good reason to doubt. But were it not so, we should still account 

 the cultivator of such a farm a public benefactor. A knowledge of 

 his modes of operation and their results would be a public benefit ; 

 and the imitation of his example, with judicious reference to the 

 different circumstances in which it may be applied, would be a source 

 of individual and public wealth and happiness. There are, besides 

 the actual returns in dollars and cents, by which most men do, and 

 perhaps ought, to estimate the present value of their lands, the satis- 

 factions arising from the successful accomplishment of one's plans, 

 bringing health and cheer ; from the knowledge of superior means 

 of support and comfort afforded one's laborers ; from the sight of 

 valuable and permanent improvements made, by which others, if not 

 one's self, will reap large benefit ; — stone walls that are built for 

 ages, and in the construction of which it is difficult to imagine further 

 improvement ; — waste or almost worthless lands reclaimed and 

 rendered bountifully productive ; — trees planted, from which gen- 

 erations are to pluck the choicest fruit ; — and the whole farm made 



