MR. URBAN AND A COUNTRY HOUSE 



Witness. "I shall be happy, gentlemen, to 

 further your agricultural investigations; if 

 you confine your inquiries to that class of sub- 

 jects, I shall be glad to make reply." 



Query. "Is it your opinion, Mr. Creed, 

 that a man of energy and industry, who should 

 purchase a farm in a retired district, and carry 

 out your system of thorough drainage and 

 blasting, would lay the base of permanent 

 pecuniary success?" 



Witness. "I care very little about pecuniary 

 success. We hear altogether too much if it. 

 I think a young man of industry and good 

 habits might secure a competence by hard 

 work anywhere in the country; and with a 

 competency any man ought to be content. I 

 am inclined to think that I should recom- 

 mend land with as few permanent rocks as 

 possible." 



Mr. Creed, it appears further, is the owner 

 of quite a number of pure-bred animals; but 

 his fences falling into a bad condition in the 

 course of his improvements and experiments, 

 (some of these being in the shape of patent 

 hurdles,) and his neighbor's male animals be- 

 ing intrusive and aggressive, he is not quite 

 sure of his calves. His sales, therefore, have 

 been subject to the discount of the uncertainty^ 

 and have brought only fair butcher's prices. 



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