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" The world is before you, as you enter it so will it receive you ; 

 if you had the abilities of all the great men past and present, 

 you could do nothing well without sincerely meaning it and 

 setting about it. If you entertain ihe supposition that any 

 real success in great things or in small ever was or could be, 

 ever will or can be wrested from Fortune by fits and starts, 

 leave that wrong idea here." 



The man who wants ,a leisure life had better keep out of 

 farming in all its branches ; but the man who believes " that 

 his own right arm shall make him king," not king over men in 

 the sense in which the words were written, but king over diffi- 

 culties and obstacles in his path ; the man who knows something 

 of the feeling of the Scotch poet who " walked in glory and in 

 joy behind his plow along the mountain side ;" the man who 

 has the skill and patience to make two blades of grass grow 

 where one grew before; to him we say, " All hail." Welcome 

 the day when by the efforts of such men the care of our farms 

 shall be considered as honorable and as worthy the best efforts 

 of the best men as the care of banks or the affairs of commerce. 



FAEM ACCOUNTS. 



BY FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 



In presenting these accompanying farm accounts, it will be 

 necessary to preface them with a few explanations. I present 

 them, hoping that they will be the means of drawing forth 

 comments from practical farmers and others, and if they shall 

 do only a very small part towards advancing scientific investi- 

 gations in agriculture, I shall be much pleased. I would say 

 to the farmers that every agricultural truth, and by that I 

 mean any information that is not based upon guessing, (which 

 unfortunately is the way too many farmers base their informa- 

 tion,) that they can give to the public through the agricultural 

 or other papers, will help greatly in establishing agriculture as 

 a science. 



