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and heaving ocean of middle life, turns to it, as the sailor, to 

 his distant home. Thither his affections go, his hopes aspire. 

 Here he fondly anticipates to crown 



" A youth of labor, with an age of ease." 



Men live as mechanics, merchants, or lawyers, but they hope, 

 retiring with success, to die as farmers. Nothing could better 

 declare the dignity and attraction of the occupation, if such 

 declaration were needed. Farming, pursued by intelligent men, 

 vindicates itself. It were trite to add, no occupation tends more 

 to the quiet and improvement of the mind, or to elevate it to 

 close comnumion with its God. And no man commands more 

 the respect, confidence and love of his follows, than he who 

 honestly, intelligently, and faithfully pursues it. I know no 

 more beautiful spectacle, than the Christian farmer, who, for 

 three score years and ten, has cultivated his paternal acres, 

 whose contemplations have been " beside the still waters," and 

 '• in the green pastures," and who, with his children and grand- 

 children to solace his declining years, patiently and hopefully, 

 in a vigorous old age, awaits for his earthly inheritance to de- 

 scend to them, as he assumes his heavenly. 



" On he moves, to meet his latter end, 

 Angels around, befriending virtue's friend ; 

 Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, 

 While resignation gently slopes the way, 

 And, all his prospects brightening to the last, 

 His heaven commences, ere the world be past." 



Good Husbandry and the Incentives to it. 



[Extract from an Address, hy Hon. Joseph T. Buckingham, at the. last Fair of 

 the Franklin County Agricultural Society.] 



The term agriculture appears to have been once applied only 

 to the cultivation of large fields by means of the plough alone ; 

 but, long ago, it acquired a much more extensive meaning. In 

 its present popular acceptation, it comprehends the process of 



