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finds you with an empty corn crib, dame Nature sends you no 

 new client to enrich your store, until the frosts and snows of 

 winter have come and gone, when you may again try your 

 hand at the plough and the hoe. If the clergyman seems for a 

 time to fail of success in his chosen calling, he need not de- 

 spair, (and usually does not,) for back of him is the dignity 

 of his sacred calling. The associations with which he is now 

 or has been connected, the college, the seminary, the confer- 

 ence, (all of them a kind of mutual admiration society,) then 

 there is the religious press, for which he has solicited sub- 

 scriptions, the missionary society, for whose treasury he has 

 taken the annual collections. Then last, but not least, the 

 ladies' sewing society, which very often is more powerful than 

 all the others combined. With all of these at his back, how 

 can he fail ? But the farmer has none of these powerful in- 

 stitutions or agencies to aid him in his work, but, crops or no 

 crops, he must contribute to sustain them all. The physician 

 may sometimes seem to fail of all that success which his 

 qualifications would seem to warrant, because of the health- 

 fulness of his patients. But he has only to wait for the 

 changing of the seasons, when his rejoicing eyes shall see his 

 patients sickening and dying to replenish his depleted treas- 

 ury. But the old earth needs feeding and feasting, not purg- 

 ing and depleting. In the chemistry of the natural elements 

 there is no partiality shown for allopathy or for homoeopa- 

 thy, they as yet not having made a record of the doings of 

 the Massachusetts Medical Society. 



Hence it must be seen that in order to the most successful 

 cultivation of the soil, the breeding and developing of cattle, 

 and bringing them to a profitable market, the right man must 

 be found in the right place. 



