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pable, under proper direction, of preparing manures in the very 

 most approved manner, though they may be ignorant of the reason 

 why it is necessary to protect it against the loss of ammonia &c., 

 or may not know that such a gas is produced during the fermen- 

 tation of dung. They may apply lime and gypsum to the soil 

 with as good effect as if they knew all the secrects of their mys- 

 terious working in the soil and the economy of the growing plant. 

 There is no process in connection with their business, which they 

 cannot perform, if once they are told how, as well as or better 

 than the man of science, although they never stop to ask the 



The knowledge and the practicing upon it need not be joined 

 in the same individual. Indeed, in this case, the (Uvision of labor 

 will tell with as great effect as in our large manufactories. The 

 man of science must investigate the principles and the manner in 

 which they are to be reduced to practice. The practical farmer is 

 the one who will carry them out. And he will never be backward 

 in doing his pait of the duty provided you can show him, to his 

 conviction, that it will be for his profit. 



We will now return to our subject, from which the foregoing 

 can hardly be considered a digression. 



The physician and the minister do not strictly belong to either 

 of the classes we have been considering. They may be regarded 

 as a sort of middle men between the two. Fiom their education 

 they are capable of tracing out the bearings of science upon the 

 business of the farmer, and being, from their position in society, 

 possessed of a large influence over all around them, they may 

 point out to farmers those modes by which they W'ill be benefitted, 

 and warn them against error. To neither of these men will it 

 ever be much trouble, nor a loss of time, to inform themselves on 

 subjects connected Mith farming, and by lectures during the win- 

 ter evenings, they may spread a vast amount of very useful knowl- 

 edge through their vvhole neighborhood. 



" Knowledge is power," and the difference paid to the supe- 

 rior wisdom of the so called," learned professions," opens a large 

 sphereof power to them,and which they may use to the great benefit 

 of their race. It is too generally the case that they devote very lit- 

 tle of their time and care to any thing beyond the regular loutine 

 of their professions, whereas, should they devote a portion of their 

 leisure in promoting intellectual improvement and advancement 

 in all the occupations of life, they might do an incalculable 

 amount of good. They might easily and with a powerful iufluence 

 be engaged every day in gradually breaking down those preju- 

 dices which are among our farming population, the greatest hin- 

 drances' to improvement. They might rapidly introduce the 

 practice of reading agricultural papers, and books, things which 



