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beautiful by skill and culture. There is in these facts much to com- 

 pensate an}' failure of remuneration in hard money, if such failure 

 ensues. Then, too, in the case of Mr. French, there is another and 

 higher satisfaction, the ^vorth of -which is understood by every mind 

 possessed of right sensibilities. He cultivates and adorns, improves 

 and preserves his paternal acres ; — the spot which vras his early 

 home, and is now endeared to him, beyond all others, by associations 

 and remembrances of the purest and most inspiring sort! Who 

 would not wish to preserve the soil, on which his fathers trod and 

 toiled, where his own first breath was drawn, from passing into 

 stranger-hands ? Who would not cheerfully labor through years of 

 hardest business life, for means to be expended in reclaiming and 

 enriching, in preserving and adorning the place, which shall go down, 

 with his ancestral name, to future generations ? Who would not 

 love to be the benefactor of his own and his parents' neighbors and 

 friends, while he lives, and to mingle his ashes with theirs, when he 

 dies? 



In this utihtarian age and community, such remarks as these may 

 to most men appear absurd. Yet would we think it none the less 

 our duty, in attempting to further the ends of an association like our 

 own, to speak of such motives and encouragements to the farmer ; 

 to inculcate a high regard for the better sentiments and sensibihties 

 of our nature ; and to hold forth to the young the idea that there is 

 something, besides money-making, to be estimated in the plan of 

 one's life ; — that there are more enduring and satisfying riches 

 than the " golden ore," and that such riches lie within the reach of 

 every honest and true hearted laborer on the soil. 



The following are the crops cultivated by Mr. French, the past 

 season. 



TILLED LAND. 



Two acres Peas. 



Two and a half acres Flat Turnips. 



One half acre Sweet Corn. 



One half acre Squashes. 



One and one half acres Mangel Wurtzel and Blood Beets. 



Two acres Onions. 



