290 Our Farming. 



know a great many of you are not as used to handling the pencil 

 as the writer, but I would get in the habit of using it more, par- 

 ticularly if I were a young man trying to improve my condition. 

 This is entirely disinterested, as I have no note books or pencils to 

 sell ! Should you meet me at any of the institutes, keep watch, 

 and you will see the note book come out when any point is brought 

 out that I think may be of use to me afterwards, and I wish some 

 reminder of it. 



