22 MR- hazen's address. 



cessity for the co-operation of mind and body in the conduct of a 

 farm. That the mind is strengthened by exercise, and that 

 whenever it may be exercised it may distinguish itself by supe- 

 rior strength and information, are positions too plain to admit of 

 proof or illustration. The earth yields or withholds her fruits, 

 makes them stinted or luxuriant, by the operation of fixed laws. 

 It can need no argument to show that he, whose dependance is 

 on the favorable operation of these laws, should have all the 

 knowledge of them that can be acquired, and of all the means by 

 which their favorable operation may be propitiated. If the cul- 

 tivator has a full knowledge of the quality of soils, of seeds, of 

 manures, of plants, of roots, of animals, and of all the influences 

 that benfifit or injure them, Nature is his counsellor and fellow 

 laborer. All her powers are to him as labor saving machines. 

 She diminishes for him the cost of her productions. She crowns 

 with plenty and with gladness the devotee whose love has led 

 him to study her character and honor her affections. All culti- 

 vation is but an awakening and bringing into use powers that 

 would otherwise lie dormant. If we consider that no limit has 

 yet been found to the products of agriculture, but that they have 

 continued to increase with the progress of art, and that one dis- 

 covery commonly leads to another, we may well conclude that 

 there are powers in nature not yet awakened, combinations not 

 yet formed, and that many fields yet remain for the conquests of 

 agricultural genius. 



If the farmer has the knowledge and ingenuity, the industry 

 and skill which justly belong to his character, the appropriate 

 testimonies will not be wanting. He needs the herald of no 

 mercenary partisan. He builds his own monuments. The 

 neatness and order of his homestead, the fertility of his fields, 

 the perfection and symmetry of his stock, and the system with 

 which his business is conducted, are all eloquent panegyrists upon 

 the merits of their proprietor. The improvements that he may 

 make; the new modes of culture, and the new articles of culti- 

 vation that he may introduce ; the oaks that he may plant, and 

 the records that he may leave of his own labors and experience, 

 may bear his name with honor to other generations. 



