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carried into all the business and relations of life. It is 

 enviable, every where, indoors and out ; and, if not one 

 of the cardinal virtues, every husbandman, and husband- 

 woman too^ ought to be willing to add it to the list. It 

 should be carried into the family — there should be or- 

 der there. Every one should know his place, and his 

 duty. There should be order in the field, and in all 

 the business of the farm ; there should be order every 

 where. " Order is Heaven s first law.'''' Let it never be 

 second to the husbandman, or his household ! 



Sixthly. It is the character of good husbandry, to 

 be constantly improving. 



The nineteenth century finds all things around us pro- 

 gressing. The art, or the business which does not make 

 progress ; is like the by-stander on the bank of a 

 stream, whom the current soon leaves behind. 



While the inventions and discoveries, in the mechanic 

 arts, and manufactures, within thirty years past, have, 

 with unexampled rapidity, been acquiring for them new 

 skill, and increased powers ; agriculture has been, com- 

 paratively, stationary ; at least, progressed with a slow- 

 er step. Government has exerted, in behalf of these, 

 its full strength ; leaving this to its own protection. — 

 And we feel a manly pride, in confiding this important 

 interest to its natural guardians ; a virtuous^ intelligent^ 

 and enterprising yeomanry. Their ingenuity will suggest 

 new modes of culture ; new kinds of crops ; new 

 branches of industry ; new sources of wealth. The 

 great staples of New England are not yet settled. 

 There will be changes, as there have been, unfriendly 

 to the agricultural interest. The cultivator, therefore, 

 must adapt his system of culture, to the circumstances, 

 to the state and prospects of the country. 



