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in their subject condiiion, the eleven hundred military castles of En- 

 gland have for so many ages frowned in aristocratic power ! Now be- 

 hold the magic changes wrought by the power of farm and garden. 

 You see now the annual jubilee of these noble interests, attended by 

 all the gentlemen, lords and ladies of the British empire. Victoria, (to 

 her credit I proclaim it) personally shows to her subjects the example 

 oilove and regard for even a poultry yard ! 



Turn your eyes to France ! Louis Philippe is the protector of the 

 Royal Society of Horticulture, of Paris. Thus giving his fine exam- 

 ple to all our patriotic citizens who are now so nobly engaged in form- 

 ing every where Farmer^s Clubs ; which, by thus condensing the 

 theories and experience of masses of men, will find those truths which 

 are vital to a powerful progress in agriculture, as well as in any other 

 cause. See the Sultan of Turkey within a few months past sending 

 commissioners into every district of the Mussulman empire, to inspect 

 the condition of farmers, to lend the?n money to buy stock and farm- 

 ing tools, to give them the most valuable seeds, and ordaining 'that 

 no man while engaged in cultivating the earth shall he arrested for 

 debt ! ! 



Look for a moment at the value of cultivation ! Spain for a long 

 time annually received from her mines in South America some thirty 

 miUions of dollars in gold and silver. Spain, which had before thai 

 time a rich agriculture and a lofty name, now became proud and lazy ; 

 her Hidalgos, with pompous step, paced the prados of her cities, dis- 

 daining all labor. Spain dropped her spade and hoe — spurned the 

 plough — and you all see the result. 



England, by her parliamentary returns last year, shows the value 

 of her agriculture for that year to be three thousand millions of dol- 

 lars ; or as much in one year, as the mines of America had given 

 Spain in a hundred years. 



Even France, so renowned for her civilization, has not yet redeemed 

 the land from the original curse. Poiteau put a question last July, to 

 the Scientific Congress of Rheims ! How is it that France gathers 

 but six or seven grains for every one sowed, of her grain crops ? 



The Emperor of Russia is now seeking an exchange between his 

 Farmer's Clubs and those of all the world. 



