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prizes a cow and a sheep no less than a horse or a dog. Other- 

 wise the woods surrounding the farm maybe made his hunting- 

 grounds, and the adjoining streets a race-course. See that he 

 is not a man of vulgar mind who despises little things ; but a 

 practical philosopher who is not above the necessity of giving 

 his attention to what the former would contemptuously regard as 

 trifles. Sec that while he is capable of prizing a noble tree, he 

 does not look with contempt upon a whortleberry bush, and that 

 he can look after the welfare of a toad, on account of its useful 

 sevices, and not centre all his interest upon a blood-horse or an 

 imported bull. 



The humble as well as the more attractive concerns of the 

 farm should receive a due share of his attention. He should 

 not despise information from the most humble sources, nor exag- 

 gerate the importance of that which proceeds from men of high 

 position. By his reports he should endeavor to enlighten the 

 public mind with reference not only to the immediate subjects 

 of experiment, but should enter into the philosophy of rural 

 life, domestic economy, and the ethics of agriculture. He should 

 endeavor to exhibit the true aim and rational ambition of the 

 farmer and the farmer's family, and to throw a charm around 

 the humble homestead, which should render it more attractive 

 than all the splendor of the city. 



NOEFOLK. 



ARTIFICIAL PLANTING OF TREES ;— ITS IMPOR- 

 TANCE AND BENEFITS. 



BY REV JOHN L. RUSSELL. 



Nature, in its kindly ministrations, has clothed the surface of 

 the earth with vegetation. No spot of land, no outside of rocks, 

 nor even still or running waters, that are devoid of some kind of 

 plants. The enterprise of industrial art lays bare the long- 

 covered strata of stone, railroad cuttings through sterile gravel 

 ridges, swamps, bogs and miry places made firm by deposit of 



