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our rulers, influenced by the true principles of a wise 

 political economy, shall see fit to do something for the 

 cause. The rage for speculation, and the desire to 

 gather riches too fast, which but lately filled the whole 

 community with golden dreams, has in a measure sub- 

 sided, and people's minds now being sobered down to 

 realities of life, they are willing to go to work for a 

 hving. It seems, then, there never was a time when 

 the fostering care of the government might be extended 

 to the farming part of the community with a better 

 prospect of advancing the permanent good of the whole 

 than the present. 



The art of farming, in all its various details, is an 

 employment requiring constant care and attention, as 

 well as judgment in bringing its operations to a suc- 

 cessful issue. 



It is the great employment of the rank and file of 

 the country, and, as such, deserves to be considered by 

 our rulers; and, were they seriously to entertain the 

 purpose of encouraging it, the zeal of its followers 

 would be sharpened, and their eiforts redoubled, to 

 place this science, to which our country owes so much 

 of its prosperity, upon a proper footing. Committees 

 of agriculture, it is true, are appointed, year after year, 

 in our national and stale legislatures, to watch over its 

 interests ; but what have they done for the cause which 

 feeds and clothes them ? The silk business may have 

 been talked over in the former, and the Canada thistle 

 choked in the latter, but no important measure for its 

 encouragement has been passed, at least of late years. 

 Every other great interest of the country seems to 

 have been cared for but the one under consideration : 

 commerce, manufactures, education, civil and military, 

 the fisheries, &c. are all bountifully endowed by gov- 

 ernment, while, for the benefit of the profession to 

 which the great mass of the people belong, there is no 

 board formed, no school-house raised, nor bounty for 

 its amelioration or encouragement ofifered. Is it neg- 

 lected by our rulers because it is less useful, or needs 



