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of the staple productions. The western farmer spreads his 

 wheat broadcast over thousands of acres. In those wide-spread- 

 ing fields, no fence interrupts the wave of the bending grain as the 

 breeze glides over its surface ; and such are the facilities for the 

 transportation of produce, that wheat and flour are poured upon 

 the Atlantic board, as from an inexhaustible magazine which has 

 been accumulating its treasures for ages. Towards this almost 

 boundless territory, the tide of emigration continually sets ; and 

 from thence an untiring industry sends back to the less fertile re- 

 gions the products of her labor, as from an overflowing granary, 

 in such profusion that the drill husbandry, from which the largest 

 returns are derived, can scarcely hope to compete. Still, let but 

 new avenues of industry be opened, and if ever two days' labor 

 are required to grow that which in the west requires only one, the 

 east need not yet despair of securing w^ealth and prosperity under 

 the influence of her indomitable perseverance, and in the multi- 

 tude of resources at her command. 



From this discussion, w^e return once more to the consideration 

 of the prosper object of our Journal. Especially we wash it to be 

 understood that we aim to promote the advancement of that sys- 

 tem of husbandry which shall be the most profitable, and the best 

 adapted to circumstances when all the peculiarities of location 

 and place are taken into consideration, together with the competi- 

 tions which spring up between rival communities, the plans of in- 

 dustry which may be devised, the special kinds of stock and pro- 

 duce which the markets of the day may require, and, in fine, all 

 those conditions which modify personal and general interests when 

 viewed in their broade«'t bearings, and as they most affect the pros- 

 perity of the American farmer. The present is distinguished from 

 the past by a wonderful energy in prosecuting scientific research. 

 Not only are old fields broken up anew, but new ones are entered 

 with astonishing zeal. The impetus which is thus given to disco- 

 very, in all countries where intelligence has a vigorous reign, can 

 hardly be conceived by one who has not a good share of industry 



