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3. In the award of premiums, more or less of dissatisfac- 

 tion will always be felt. A man who has worked a whole 

 year for a premium cannot he expected to lose it without 

 some pain. Premiums should be awarded with great care, 

 w 'th scrupulous impartiality, and every effort made by the 

 leading, substantial farmers to soothe and keep down every- 

 thing like bitterness and faction, in consequence of disap- 

 pointment. 



4. It is indispensable that agricultural papers should go 

 hand in hand with agricultural societies. We will venture 

 to say, that no society will long exist prosperously, which 

 does not have a reading membership ; and that a society 

 can hardly fail to prosper if its members are regular readers 

 of agi'icultural papers. 



SHIFTLESS TRICKS, 



To let the cattle fodder themselves at the stack ; they 

 pull out and trample more than they eat. They eat till the 

 edge of appetite is gone, and then daintily pick the choice 

 parts ; the residue, being coarse and refuse, they will not 

 afterwards touch. 



To sell half a stack of hay and leave the lower half open to 

 rain and snow. In feeding out, a hay knife should be used 

 on the stack ; in selling, either dispose of the whole, or re- 

 move that which is^eft to a shed or bam. 



It is a shiftless trick to lie about stores and groceries, 

 arguing with men that you have no time, in a new country^ 

 for nice farming — for making good fences; for smooth 

 meadows without a stump ; for draining wet patches which 

 disfigure fine fields. 



To raise your own frogs in your own yard ; to permit, 

 year after year, a dirty, stmking, mantled puddle to stand 

 befoi-e your fence in the street. 



