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waste lands, and the world elsewhere is only a great wil- 

 derness. And to Science, Intelligence, Information and 

 Method are necessary. And, that he may be continnally 

 advancing in intelligence, let the farmer, especially the 

 young fixrmer, seek to gather new information from every 

 quarter — read every thing he can find that can shed any 

 clearer, brighter light upon the pursuits and labors of his 

 calling. Let him devote a few dollars to the selection of 

 a small choice Library of thorough standard scientific 

 works. Let him also assist in the formation of a farmers' 

 club, where each may receive and impart the benefits of 

 their personal observation and experience ; and, what is 

 quite as important, let him subscribe for a few agricul- 

 tural periodicals, edited by men of practical science, at 

 least one weekly and one or two monthly. To this end, 

 if need be, let him banish from his fireside the useless, 

 and often scurrilous and debasing political journals, and 

 especially the sickly sentimentalisms, the mawkish love 

 tales and pamby namby verses, that sometimes gain en- 

 trance into the farmer's house under the name of Literary 

 and even Religious Magazines. And here, I find myself 

 very gruffly set upon, perhaps by some good old friend 

 and brother farmer, who never had much opinion of books 

 and reading any way, with the query, " Whether I was 

 coming here to uphold book-farming ; " f^irming, which, 

 in his dictionary, is only another word for " Humbug." 

 Well ! my friend ! suppose we first see what " Book- 

 Farming " is. Our intelligent and distinguished brother 

 farmer, Rev. Charles C. Sewall, plants a piece of corn, 

 highly manured in some new way, in rows three feet 

 apart, the hills a foot apart, and turns out a hundred and 

 odd bushels to the acre ; that is farming, experimental 

 farming. He tells his neighbor Jones, who tries the ex- 

 periment next year ; that is talk farming. My friend 

 King, of the Journal of Agriculture, or Brown, of the 



