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First came into the place he was as surly as a bull, and as un- 

 neighborly as a wild Indian. He would wallow right through 

 y^our grass and grain, throw down fences and leave the bars down 

 ^fter him. I thought he was about as much damage to me as a 

 dozen hogs would have been, if allowed to range all over the 

 farm. But I saw he never ran about on the Sabbath. He either 

 went to meeting or kept close at home. Thinks I, there is some- 

 thing left in him yet, so I kept on treating him neighborly and 

 making no complaints. At last he comes to me and says, " I've 

 made up my mind not to leave your bars down any more, for I 

 can't stand it." 



"Stand what?" says I. 



" Why your everlasting kindness. If you don't stop I shall 

 have to move away." 



" I can tell you " says I, " what will be better than that." 



" What 's that ? " says he. 



" Turn honest man and be neighborly," says I. 



Salmon studied upon it for a spell, and made up his mind. 

 He has been as neighborly a man as ever need to be ever since. 

 Now it does one as much good to tame such a man, as it does to 

 pay for a new farm." 



W^ESTERN COMPETITION — WHEAT AND WOOL, 

 DAIRY AND PORK. 



It is yet to be determined whether the East can compete with 

 the West or not. If the East had to run a parallel course with 

 the West, or if the general husbandry of the former ran in the 

 same channels as the latter, the question might be regarded as 

 settled. There is a fertility and space in the West, a depth of 

 soil extending itself far and wide, which secures years of produc- 

 tiveness on the one hand, and unbounded territory on the other, 

 and so cheap is territory that a man of wealth may own a little 

 kingdom, and count his miles instead of his acres, and the poor 

 man become the proprietor of a farm. But the East has her mar- 

 kets, the supply of which must come from the Eastern farmer in 



