14 NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. Jan. 



especially to our climate, and hence find the | spirited, and join cheerfully in all efforts to 

 cost of labor and material increased beyond j promote the good of the communities in which 

 the limits of remuneration. | we dwell? Shall we lend our countenance 



The advocates of free trade found their doc- ' anfl aid to the cause of education, and seek to 

 trines upon the idea that it is better for the elevate the standard and improve the methods 

 people of different countries and climates to and furnish liberally the means of instruction? 

 cultivate and manufacture such things as are 1" this matter our children, our second selves, 

 best suited to their capacities and circumstan- have claims upon us which we cannot refuse to 

 ces, and obtain such other commodities as they I recognize. The world is moved by mental, 

 need, by a free exchange with those who can not muscular force. Mental power works by 

 easily and conveniently produce them, and means of animal and mechanical force, and 

 that the attempt to enforce the production of ^ifrher degrees of mental cultivation are re- 

 everj'thing that the wants and comforts of man | fpi^ed to use to the best advantage the irra- 

 require, in every country and climate, is doing ' ^ional forces that are brought within our con- 

 violence to the laws of nature. It may be trol. Let us not forget the demands of the 

 that there is a certain amount of truth under- ' ^ge in this respect. Shall we cultivate purer 

 lying these doctrines, and that a more com- I morals and strive to do, under all circumstan- 

 prehensive knowledge would teach us that the ^es, not what is expedient, but what is right ? 

 highest success is to be attained when our ac- Shall we seek to attain to a higher spiritual 

 tion and our efforts are in accordance with \ 1'^^' ^^^ ^ ^^"S^^ development of the religious 

 the laws of nature. We may overcome the ! fl«'"^°t^^'^'^!""«'/«""^'^^bermg that the future 



r ■»„*• „ u„ +u„ „^..i:„„.;^„ ^r ^„r i is but a continuation of the present life, and 



power oi gravitation by the application oi sul- 1 '^ ' 



ficient force; but when we move the resisting ' t^^* ^^^« g'"'^^t«^ ^"a^""^^"^^ ^^ ""^^^ ^^''^ ''' 

 body in the direction in which gravitation acts, I ^'Pintual.ty and purity, the higher we shall 

 we certainly find our labor greatly facilitated. ^^'^"^ ^'^^^'^ ^'« ^^'^^'^ ^^^ body and step forth 

 So in every other case. When we act in ac- i ^°^° ^ ^'^^'' ^"'i ^^"^^^ ^'^*^- ^^^^^ ^^■«' t'^^"' 

 cordance with the laws of nature, or can bring ^"^«"be upon the newly turned page of 1868 



,, P /■ » x ■ 1 • the motto — Excelsior ? 



the forces of nature to aid us, our success is 



higher and more certain. There needs, then, I gkeat STOCK SALE. 



a proper adjustment between our operations ,tii t^ •• t^ • ^ . ■^ ■, 



\ y •' , , , , , *„ I The Frairie rarmer gives a detailed ac- 



and the natural laws, and as the laws ol nature „ , ^. i , ,i i • • . 



, , , count 01 the auction sale by the administrator 



are unalterable, our arrangements must be „ , ^ ^ /• .i i . t tvt tth , tt- i 



, , TT 1 • r of the estate 01 the late James M. Hill, ' High- 

 conformed to them. Hence the necessity 01 a , , ^^ ,, tt • . -^r /-. ,•■• 

 , , „ ,, , land ]^ arm,' near Harnstown, Macon Co., llh- 

 thoroujih knowledge of natural laws, and espe- . /. ^, ,• , i ^ v 



. , - , , ,. , ,„ ', nois, of the live stock and standing corn on 



cially of those that more directly affect the ., . c t-u r i. *u i. ^u j. •. r 



•^ ■', that farm. Ihe fact that these two items of 



opera ions m w g g • personal property were sold for over twenty- 

 Shall we, then, during the year which has gye thousand dollars, shows that farming ia 

 now commenced, turn our attention in this ^ot necessarily a small business in Illinois, 

 direction, and carefully observe the phenom- whatever may be thought of it by the Young 

 ena which occur around us? Shall we note America of New EnMand. 

 the state of the weather and the meteorologi- The reputation of Mr. Hill as a breeder of 

 cal changes that occur, and their effects upon short Horns was such as to draw a large con- 

 cur crops and our hearths? Shall we note course of cattle men not only from all parts of 

 the effects of different manures, and different big state, but from other States and the Cana- 

 methods of cultivation ? das. Fifty-two Durham bulls, cows and heif- 

 Shall we keep more accurate account with ers, averaged $279.90 per head, amounting 

 our help, with our stock and our fields, that, at to $14,513. One Cotswold Buck, $G5 ; nine 

 the close of the year, we may be able to strike Cotswold Ewes at from $31 to $60. Eighty 

 the balance between profit and loss ? Shall we different lots of hogs were sold, ranging from 

 have the enterprise necessary to try rational $4 to $60 for single pigs, and for single lots 

 and prudent experiments in whatever bids fair from $10 to $100 ; yearling mules were sold for 

 to promote the advantage of our families and $127.60 each. Nine horses and colts were 

 our fellow men ? Shall we be more public , sold from $50 for sucking colts, up to $250 



