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lected and unimproved, he cannot expect any return 

 from it, but rather, with its inevitable depreciation, with 

 taxes, cost of fences, etc., that not only it, but himself, 

 will grow poorer. And herein is a fair illustration of 

 what demagogues ring the charges on, that "the rich 

 grow richer and the poor poorer." It is as true now as 

 when the words were first uttered, and will be forever 

 true — " To him that hath shall be given, and from him 

 that hath not shall be taken awa} T even that he hath." 



It may possibly do sometimes, under some circumstan- 

 ces, to allow ground to lie fallow — it may do for the pur- 

 pose of experiment, by scientific men — a man may do so 

 who has so much land that he does not know what to do 

 with it, but as a practice it don't do at all. The old 

 prophets who cried so vigorously to their countrymen to 

 break up the fallow ground of their hearts, evidentlj'- knew 

 what fallow ground was, and that fallow ground and 

 hard hearts are alike unproductive of any good thing 

 and will surely bring the possessor to grief. 



To the farmer who complies with all reasonable require- 

 ments and conditions of success in his occupation equally 

 with the manufacturer, the merchant, the mechanic, the 

 lawyer or the doctor in his ; who lays his plans for more 

 than one season : who thinks the ground is equal to and 

 the season long enough for more than one crop, often for 

 several ; who believes that he, as well as the sagacious 

 merchant or capitalist, can turn his capital over often ; 

 who takes advantage of the teachings of science, of his 

 own and other people's observation and experience : who 

 has learned how to draw up the moisture from below the 

 surface and to bring it down from above ; who believes 

 the time has gone by in a farmer's business when brain is 

 divorced from hand, — to him the ground will respond, 



