CROPS AND PROFITS 



the lawyer or tradesmen. His successes, when 

 most decided, are orderly, normal, and cumu- 

 lative. He must needs bring a cool temper, 

 and the capacity — to wait. If he plant a thou- 

 sand guineas — however judiciously, — they will 

 not sprout to-morrow. There have been, I 

 know, Multicaulis fevers, and Peabody seed- 

 lings ; but these are exceptional ; and the prizes 

 which come through subornation of the Patent 

 Office, are rare, and dearly paid for. 



Again, it must be remembered, that all suc- 

 cess depends more on the style of the man, than 

 on the style of his business. For one who is 

 thoroughly in earnest, farming offers a fair 

 field for effort. But the man who is only half 

 in earnest, who thinks that costly barns, and 

 imported stock, and jaunty fencing, and a 

 nicely-rolled lawn are the great objects of at- 

 tainment, may accomplish pretty results; but 

 they will be small ones. 



So the dilettante farmer, who has a smat- 

 tering of science, whose head is filled with 

 nostrums, who thinks his salts will do it all; 

 who doses a crop — now to feebleness, and now 

 to an unnatural exuberance ; who dawdles over 

 his fermentations, while the neighbor's oxen 

 are breaking into his rye field; who has no 

 managing capacity — no breadth of vision, — 



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