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test written treatises on agriculture — read the most intelligibly con- 

 ducted agrcultural journals, — converse with his neighbor farmers, 

 such as are actively engage! in improving their soils — such as produce 

 thei largest crops, the best cattle, the finest and fleetest horses, the 

 most profitable sheep, the most desirable breed of hogs, the choicest 

 varieties of the difi'erent species of poultry, &c. &c. ; — also concern- 

 ing the best and most economical methods of fi\rm management, in- 

 cluding the implements, so as to be able to select the best kind of 

 plough, seed-planter, cultiva,tor, mowing-machine, horse-rake, &c. ; 

 also, to learn the art of ploughing difi'erent soils, whether deep or 

 shallow — whether it is cheaper to i^se oxen or horses, as a team ; — 

 the mode of seeding with grain — when — and whether it be better to 

 sow grass seed in the fall or spring — how to save, mix, compost, and 

 multiply manures, so as to produce the greatest possible amount from 

 the materials employed — ascertain how to use them on the soil to the 

 best advantage ; — in the rotation of crops, learn whether it be better 

 to take two crops of corn in succession from the same field, than one, 

 how to employ all labor-saving machines, so called, in order to 

 cheapen labor by gaining, or saving time ; also, to learn something 

 every season by careful and intelligent experimenting and observa- 

 tion — so that his' growth in knowledge, experience and wisdom in his 

 noble vocation, shall more than keep pace with the progress and im- 

 provement, annually developed in the skilful management of his fatm. 

 Then will farming pay, not only, but will become, also, a source of 

 pleasure and delight, akin to that enjoyed in horticulture, before man 

 received the sentence, " In the sv/eat of thy brow shalt thou cat 

 bread." The hand, when guided by a well instructed mind and pure 

 taste, — all under the influence and promptings of a good heart, will 

 so beautify the farm acres, as to render every Farmer's Home a fit 

 dwelling-place for Nature's truest nobleman, the Farmer. 



