32 TBANSACTIONS. 



But SO long as farmers think that nothing is wanting but 

 bone and muscle, strength of sinew and power of endurance ; 

 so long as they neglect all mental culture, and look with con- 

 tempt on all intelligent farming ; so long as they discard good 

 taste and good language and good manners as unnecessary ; so 

 long as they disregard all sentiment and all refinement, so long 

 will farming languish and be'forced, by farmers themselves, to 

 take its place among the mere mechanical employments by 

 the side of machine and slave labor, when 'it might and ought 

 to be elevated and dignified, as worthy of the highest intelli- 

 gence, as opening the field on which human genius has some 

 of its grandest triumphs to achieve ! 



