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present, you could do nothing well without sincerely meaning 

 it and setting about it. If you entertain the supposition that 

 any real success in great things or in small ever iras or could 

 be, ever will or can be wrested from fortune by tits and starts, 

 leave that wrons; idea here." 



The man who wants a leisure life had better keep out of 

 farming in all its branches ; but the man who believes "that 

 his own right arm shall make him king," not king over men in 

 the sense in which the words were written, but king over diffi- 

 culties and obstacles in his path ; the man who knows some- 

 thing of the feeling of the Scotch poet who "walked m glory 

 and in joy behind his plough along the mountain side" ; the man 

 who has the skill and patience to make two blades of grass 

 grow where one grew before; to him we say, "All hail." 

 Welcome the day when by the efforts of such men the care of 

 our farms shall be considered as honorable and as worthy the 

 best efforts of the best men as the care of banks or the affairs of 

 commerce. 



