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wood and drawers of water for men who use the God-given 

 mind, arid nourish the soul with liberal and abundant 

 mental food. 



. "I have already tired your patience, and in closing 

 will only say, that in my opinion the coming farmer will 

 not toil with his hands fourteen hours out of the twenty- 

 four, aud compel wife and children to the same slavery. 

 But he will give a liberal share of his time to thought, 

 study and recreation. He will know of what his soil is 

 composed, in what it abounds, in what it is deficient. He 

 will know what elements of earth and air are needed to 

 plant growth, and under what conditions they can be most 

 readily assimilated. He will understand the laws of plant 

 and animal life, that he may more successfully treat them. 

 His house will be abundantly supplied with books and pa- 

 pers on agricultural and matters of general interest. Pic- 

 tures and abundant amusements will make his home 

 attractive. A beautiful lawn and flower beds, a fruit and 

 vegetable garden, an orchard, groves, and evergreens and 

 deciduous trees for ornament, shelter, and use, will make 

 his home so lovely and homelike that his daughters will 

 not be so disgusted with farm life as to marry a village 

 dolt, or the son so worn, weary and dispirited as to leave 

 the farm at the first opportunity and open a barber shop in 

 some country village. Can this be done, and can the farms 

 really be made the happy homes of refined, intelligent, hon- 

 ored men and women, instead of the abodes of overworked 

 slaves? Yes! emphatically yes! But not by neglect- 

 ing to rust the God-giving mind, but by rousing it up and 

 making it the compass, the sail and the rudder in the voyage 

 of life. The body is but the hulk. Then set your sails, 

 stand by the rudder, steer by the compass, and start out 

 boldly on the great journey, whose passage is pleasure and 

 whose end is success.'"' 



To this excellent address I would add, that no part of 

 farming requires a greater exercise of brains than theselec- 



