110 Reviews. — Cohnan's Address. 



even in respect to Mhat has been done, where any thing extraordinary 

 has been effected. Injustice lias often, but not always, been done to 

 them in this matter. They should shake off this apathy. They should 

 wake up. While every other art is advancing in the career of improve- 

 ment, almost with the speed of a locomotive engine, they should whip up 

 their team, and not be distanced in the competition." 



Having thus shown the results which follow a thorough 

 cultivation of the soil, and the necessity of enterprise and 

 energy in the farmer who would stand at the head of his 

 profession, Mr. Colman proceeds to dispel the idea, that the 

 farmer can raise too much, provided he raises proper crops : 

 he also urges the necessity of a floating capital in the man- 

 agement of the farm, as well as in any branch of trade, 

 and he illustrates by figures the great diflerence between 

 the amount of the product of a farm thoroughly tilled, to 

 one managed on the old and superficial plan. 



Passing ov^er much that is interesting, we arrive at the 

 second part of the address, viz: the improvement of the 

 farmers themselves. But it is quite useless to select here 

 and there extracts to show how ably the writer has handled 

 this, as every page is replete with sentiments, which appeal 

 to the feelings and the understanding of his audience. He 

 asserts the high place which agriculture holds among the 

 humane, liberal and intellectual arts. He shows the cer- 

 tainty of the pursuit as a means of independent subsis- 

 tence, and draws a strong contrast between the happiness, 

 pleasure, and contentment of the farmer's life, and the suf- 

 ferings, mortification, and disappointment which too often 

 embitter the days of the mere seeker after wealth, or polit- 

 ical preferment. 



The too often repeated occurrence of slovenliness against 

 a portion of the farming community, contains too much 

 truth; and we are pleased to see with what good taste Mr. 

 Colman has taken up this subject. He states that the Sha- 

 kers are models of neatness. 



" Happy would it be for our farmers if, in addition to renouncing that 

 slovenliness, which far too generally prevails, and which in truth in every 

 case involves not an inconsiderable loss of property, and making exact- 

 ness and order triumphant in every part of their premises, they would 

 seek to render their promises as beautiful as they can be made. Appear- 

 ances should be studied in every thing connected with their farms and 

 houses. There is no class of men in any condition of life, who have 

 within their reach more of the materials and elements of beauty, and at 

 a cheaper rate, than the dwellers in the country. Trees, plants, flow- 



