IS DR. spofford's address. 



industry, whether political, moral, or physical, it is equally ruin- 

 ous to nations, states, private families, or individuals. 



To no class of men does this necessity of constant industry 

 apply more forcibly than the farmer. He turns his own wheel 

 of fortune, more emphatically than almost any other class ; those 

 great and sudden turns of fortune which soaietiines raise or de- 

 press others, lay quite out of his track. With lirni foot hold he 

 climbs the ascent to wealth ; or with loosened energies he slides 

 down the gradual descent to poverty. 



The eyes of the master or owner must pervade the whole es- 

 tablishment; his mind and his hands must be equally ready to do 

 their appropriate work; his example must be such that no idler 

 can feel easy for an hour on his premises. 



Another requisite to prosperity is systematic plans. Men 

 who have no enterprise to plan will have still less if possible to 

 execute. Few men do more than they intend to do, and there 

 are or ought to be few who have not ambition enough to rouse 

 all their energies to accomplish what they have once deliberately 

 planned to do. 



I would bj no means encourage or excite inordinate ambi- 

 tion, but still a desire for property, and accommodation (call 

 it by what name you please) is the life-spring of all that is 

 laudable and valuable in society. 



That man who is the mere child of circumstances, acting 

 only as he is acted upon by his necessities, may enjoy a kind 

 of Indian irannuillity, but with such men only, the march of 

 improvement must stop in its course, and society fall back into 

 barbarism. 



That man who aims at nothing, will certainly accomplish 

 nothing; he that is content with a cabin, will never possess a 

 palace ; but he that figures to himself the conveniences and 

 elegancies of life, will make exertion to obtain them, and will 

 enjoy at least as much in a well directed pursuit, as in the 

 full possession. 



The farmer who Is content with a shabby house, wooden 

 fences, and ten bushels of corn or five hundred of hay to the 

 acre, will seldom find himself in a better situation, while he who 



