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of stock that will pay only o per cent., when lie can buy 

 five that will pay 6 for half the money. 



He is honest with his soil, and will not expect a "good 

 stand of grass " from a peck where he ought to have 

 sowed a bushel, nor will he cheat himself by mixing a 

 little old onion seed, left over from last year, with his 

 new, rather than waste it by throwing it away, as he 

 ought to. 



He is honest with his stock, and will not think he can 

 cheat his cattle and horses out of good feed and full 

 rations and yet get good work out of them every day in 

 the year, and twenty quarts of milk from his cows. In 

 fine, he will not expect to get something from nothing. 



He is honest with his neighbors, lie will be more than 

 what hard-faced men call honest. He will be accommo- 

 dating and neighborly ; he will not persist in keeping a 

 breach v cow or ox to the great damage and constant 

 annoj^ance of his neighbor; he will wring the neck of 

 every fowl he has, rather than that they should scratch. 

 up his neighbor's garden, and eat his tomatoes and corn ; 

 will be the Good Samaritan always, rather than Priest or 

 Levite. Finally, he will be " honest in the sight of all 

 men." 



He seeks lo have the best home, and when 1 say 

 home, 1 mean a /tome, not one of the highest style in 

 furniture, in ornaments, and decorations and table appoint- 

 ments, not the foolish apeing of fashion and wealth — 

 but a home of comfort, of peace, of good breeding, good 

 manners, of love and hospitality. 



The best farmer is what St. Paul said a Bishop ought 

 to be — and I don't know why a farmer shouldn't be as 

 good a man as a Bishop — "blameless, the husband of one 

 wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospital- 



