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which we possess on this subject, produces no better effects 

 than these, then may we expect that the older regions of the 

 country will cease to remunerate the cultivators ; the rural dis- 

 tricts of New England will become a wilderness, and be aban- 

 doned to perpetual sterility, and the plodding labor which has 

 drawn out the fine gold from her bald hills, will be exchanged 

 for a search after the dross of the California mountains. But 

 the evil admits of a remedy. The downward process can be 

 arrested and stopped at the point which it has reached. It is 

 only for the community to awake to the nature and responsi- 

 bilities of the crisis, and comprehend the right source of relief. 

 It is only for the National and State Governments to extend, 

 in suitable ways, their fostering and efficient care to this great 

 interest of the country', and aid in bringing the lights of pro- 

 found research to the guidance of agricultural labor : and the 

 same science which directs the track of the mariner in remote 

 seas, and almost communicates the power of thought to the 

 ponderous and ingenious machinery that executes the labors of 

 millions of human hands, which has brought the poles of the 

 earth together by rapidity of motion, and transmits ideas on 

 the wires of lightning along nerves of steel, will cause vegeta- 

 tion to spring from arid sand, and convert the wilderness into 

 a fruitful field, and that field into the garden of the Lord. 



Agricultural Ecoxomt and Agricultural Ethics. 



[Eztrad from an address ly J. S. C. K^f oirrToy, Esq., at the last Fair of the 

 WorcfsUr .isricultural SocietyJ] 



It is a wide and prolific field ; and we can do but little more 

 than look over the lowest parts of the hedge that surrounds it, 

 and dwell but for a moment on the more prominent points that 

 present themselves above the common mass of facts and de- 

 ductions with which it is filled ; all of which, as it seems to 

 me, merit and should receive from the farmer a thoughtful 

 consideration. They are the elements that combine to make 

 up the character of an intelligent, virtuous, independent yeo- 

 manry — the most effective combination of civil, social and 

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