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Not only this, but to secure the most healthful condition of 

 either body or mind as far as is possible neither should be devel- 

 oped independently of the other. Many parents seem to be 

 over-ambitious in educating their children, so that when they 

 are grown up they find themselves unsuited to the positions 

 they are called upon to fill. Dissatisfaction and an unwilling- 

 ness, or inability, to turn their hand readily to simple work, is 

 too often the result. 



Exercise is a necessary part of education and learning as 

 well as being necessary to preserve the health of all those per- 

 sons, whose occupations are of a more sedentary character. 

 What better pjace than the farm to secure it. 



But fortunately it is not in labor alone that we see the work 

 of our farms accomplished, for our great support is in the 

 most approved labor-saving, labor-economizing, machinery in 

 its most practical form; but none of this machinery is entirely 

 automatic, it can never dispense with labor, but it increases 

 the demand for intelligent labor. It greatly relieves the 

 fatigue of body, and elevates the farmer as a man, and tends 

 towards improving the mind,by leading him to a consideration of 

 the many mechanical principles involved in the construction 

 and working of his implements, as well as compelling a more 

 thoughtful consideration as to the courses of cultivation, and 

 care of animals and crops. 



PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE. 



During the time that I have been a farmer it has been my 

 aim, with partial success, to avoid the extravagances that fre- 

 quently give the name of "fancy-farmer," but which seem to be 

 an unavoidable part of the line of experience that is the lot of 

 those who have not passed their student days on the farm. 



