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en teams of one yoke of oxen, following one after another 

 as closely as possible. He farther says, their little ploughs 

 make no proper furrows, but merely root isp the ground and 

 throw the soil on either side, so that any number of teams 

 may follow one another, and when at the end of the field they 

 can return along the same line, and thus back and forth, initil 

 the whole is ploughed. Now why is there such a contrast be- 

 tween that country and our own ? Are we not indebted to the 

 rapid progress which has been made in education and science ? 

 Great changes have taken place in the implements of husband- 

 ry within the last generation, as many of us can testify, which 

 make farming less laborious, and we hope, more attractive. 



I have alluded to the disposition of our young men to leave 

 the farm, and engage in other business. This is right to a cer- 

 tain extent, as it is necessary that the different professions and 

 different kinds of business should be carried on and sustained. 

 In many cases, however, all the children leave the farm, and 

 the father is left to trudge along as best he can, making the in- 

 firmities of age burdensome. Now is there not an evil here 

 that can be remedied ? If parents would cease complaining, 

 as they sometimes do, of their hard lot, as they are pleased to 

 call it, and be more cheerful and happy, would not home be 

 ■Viore attractive to the children ? 



M«ake home pleasant by making it neat and comfortable. 

 I'iant the forest trees and shrubbery, sow flower seeds, which 

 ■.he wife and daughters in most cases will with much pleasure 

 ualtivate. 



The desire of happiness is something inherent in our nature, 

 and where can more of it be found than in a community of 

 intelligent, industrious farmers, — all engaged in the same call- 

 ing and interested in each other's welfare, controlled by a spir- 

 it of kindness and benevolence, and governed by the precepts 

 of the Gospel ? 



For the Committee — Joseph How, 



