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mill, would form a good dressing for land. Now we 

 have in many places an abundance of this article 

 ready ground for use, and well mixed too, with ani- 

 mal manure, in road dust, the removal of which 

 would greatly benefit the public, as it only impedes 

 the motion of wheels, either in the form of mud or 

 loose sand, besides its annoyance to travellers when 

 lifted on the wings of the wind. Here is probably a 

 rich source of real "muck sand" hitherto neglected. 



The foregoing brief sketch, very hastily compiled, 

 amidst constant interruptions and professional cares, 

 is designed to arouse the attention of practical farm- 

 ers to a subject full of interest and promise to them- 

 selves, their country, and the world. A flourishing 

 agriculture lies at the very foundation of national 

 prosperity. An enlightened and well educated yeo- 

 manry is one of the most important constituents of 

 national greatness and glory. Farmers should feel 

 that a higher trust than the cultivation of their fields 

 is committed to them; and that is the cultivation of 

 their own minds ; and that, therefore, independent 

 of the pecuniary advantages which the study of the 

 science of agriculture may confer upon them, its in- 

 fluence in strengthening and improving their intel- 

 lectual powers would prove of incalculable value. 

 Knowledge is power. And no knowledge confers so 

 much power on the individual man, as that which 

 makes him thoroughly acquainted with the philoso- 

 phy of the art he practices — of the avocation in the 

 labors of which he spends his life. Such knowledge 

 is not only power, it is happiness, it converts the 

 drudgery of labor into scientific recreation, and 

 where it is the laws, the forces of nature which guide 

 his hand and accomplish his work, it raises his ado- 

 ration to the Maker of those laws, the cause of those 

 forces, and religion becomes the crowning glory of 

 his existence. 



