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farmers implicitly to submit to learn their 

 farming from men who are no farmers. 

 It is truly astonishinsr that the writers on 

 farming, of the present day, should be 

 found to be any thing rather than farmers* 

 is it 60 in other professions and occupa- 

 tions ? Such expressions as the above can, 

 1 think, only tend to widen the breach, 

 and to increase the contempt and derision 

 in which the book-farmer and the com- 

 mon-farmer hold each other. If we really 

 have any information to communicate to 

 the common farmer, let us state it in such 

 lansfuase as will induce him to read what 

 we have to say with patience and atten- 

 tion. Let us not insult, where we cannot 

 instruct : for the most enlightened of us, 

 1 conceive, has far more knowledge to 

 receive from, than to convey to the com- 

 mon farmer. Short-sighted, and stupid, 

 Ii3 Mr. Smith has found liim, he has never 



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