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plans to possess good buildings, permanent fences, and to see 

 his lands ornamented with fruit trees, and covered with seventy 

 bushels of corn, and three tons of hay, to the acre, with life 

 and a common blessing, will certainly accomplish his plans. 



You are perhaps most of you familiar with the history of Sir 

 William Phipps, who raised himself from a wood coaster from 

 the then wilderness of Maine, to be knighted by King William, 

 and made Governor of Massachusetts! 



He used to say when in his lowest state, that he should live in 

 a brick house in Green lane, (now Brattle-street,) Boston, and 

 command better men than he was then thought to be himself — 

 and his own confident perseverance accomplished what he had 

 planned. He had his brick house in Green lane, and command- 

 ed in chief the State of Massachusetts. Now all cannot be 

 Governors, nor raise from the ocean a Spanish galleon laden with 

 gold as he did, but all by good plans, with industry, economy, 

 and health, can obtain that which is just as good, comfortable 

 dwellings, good farms, and a competency of other appenda- 

 ges- 



A third requisite for success to the farming interest is that the 

 farmer's mind should be in his business. That man who is 

 above his business, is in danger of soon finding that he has got 

 below it ; for no business will long sustain a man when 

 his mind has got above it. That farmer who devotes 

 his mind and his energies to his farm, till it is so Air improved 

 that it elevates him above the necessity of constant labor, is the 

 most independent and enviable character in our country; free 

 from the responsibility of office, and the toils a".d cares of a 

 profession, he eats the fruits he has reared, with raore zest 

 than can be realized by any other class, i^ good farm covered 

 with flocks and herds and fruits, is a truly enviable possession, 

 and like Robinson Crusoe, the farmer is often " monarch of 

 all he surveys." 



Another requisite to prosperity, is the keeping of good ac- 

 counts. Farmers not being under that constant necessity of 

 using the pen which attaches to men of business, are too apt to 

 throw it quite aside ; and it is believed have often suffered by 



