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BOOK," and they are provoked to see so many wild 

 schemes as have been proposed to them to lay out their 

 money^ where there was no reasonable prospect of a 

 profitable return. 



Locations, soils, markets, prices of labor, are all so 

 different, they require different rules and modes of 

 management. What is profitable to a farmer near a 

 great market, may be quite unprofitable to one at a 

 distance ; still there are some leading principles appli- 

 cable to all. 



Farmers should endeavor to overcome this prejudice, 

 for they necessarily live more remote from each other 

 than do merchants or manufacturers ; they therefore 

 have much more use for written communications to 

 make them acquainted with the practices and the im- 

 provements of brother farmers. 



The mercantile and the manufacturing community 

 have so many papers at command, that every new im- 

 provement, invention, or important article of informa- 

 tion, goes with the speed of a locomotive, and the 

 whole population is moved as with an electric shock. 



At a trifling expense farmers may, in like manner, 

 avail themselves of useful hints, and of the various 

 modes of farming which are practised in the civilized 

 world ; and there can be no more doubt of their ability 

 to improve upon their present modes of cultivation, 

 than there is of the ability of other classes. 



He must be a very dull scholar who cannot, in the 

 course of a year, by reading of the improved practices 

 of the best practical farmers in the country, acquire 

 enough of practical hints to pay for a weekly paper. 



LOW LANDS. 



Now is the time to improve upon lands that lie too 

 low to be tilled for grain. We know of many farmers 



