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drive so great a proportion of the other classes from 

 their pursuits, and compel them to become farmers, as 

 to materially change the ratio now existing between 

 producer and consumer. Consumers are the source of 

 prosperity to the farmer : they are the life of agricul- 

 ture. In the demand consequent on general prosperity, 

 agriculture always e5j:pands and flourishes : without 

 such demand, it is, and must be, contracted, its opera- 

 tions inactive, and its returns profitless. Of all classes, 

 farmers are the most truly independent ; but perfect 

 independence is a truly Utopian dream. Dependence 

 is a primary condition or element of society, and the 

 last could not exist without the first. The dependence 

 between the producer and consumer is mutual so far as 

 profit is concerned ; and it is idle for the latter to blame 

 the former for prices, when the remedy, that alone can 

 correct the inequality when it exists, is in his own 

 hands : he, too, must become a producer. If the popu- 

 lation engaged in commerce, in manufactures, mechan- 

 ics, or the professions, could not live without the farmer, 

 we, too, should remember that without their aid our 

 business would be of little value in the production of 

 wealth, and that their mouths are as essential an item 

 in agricultural prosperity, as fields covered with crops, 

 or barns bursting with plenty. — Gtnesee Farmer. 



BURNT CLAY. 



The English have been much in the habit of using 

 burnt clay and burnt loam on their lands. We hear 

 but little about any experiment of the kind in our 

 country. If we have not lime in abundance, we have 

 loam, and we have wood so cheap in some places that 

 the expense of burning would be small. It is said to 

 operate very powerfully when mixed in a loamy soil, 

 or when spread on grass-lands. 



