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ployment for their best capacity, and they must see that good farming will afford 

 them the means for an attractive life. 



The best farmers must set the example. They must use their wits ami their 

 capital, and their knowledge of the trade, to show what are its capabilities ; and 

 this examplejwill call for no sacrifice, for the one thing they have to show is how 

 to make money, and plenty of it, by an improved and intensified system of agri- 

 culture. They must, calculate well the chances, thai they may avoid loss and 

 the example of loss, and then they must venture their money and their time on 

 what their reason teaches them to be advantageous. 



If we could really have an "Association of High Farmers" that should mak 

 a combined effort throughout, all Xew England, and if this association could in- 

 duce the good-old-way men to cease from their teasing of all who attempt nov- 

 elties, we should make a much faster progress, lint all such schemes are futile. 

 Our only hope must, lit- in the quiet efforts of Bingle farmers, here and there, 

 men who will be, generally, neither philanthropists nor advocates, but only quiet, 

 hard-working, hard thinking men, who are bent on making money from their 

 farms, who have the brains to see that good farming is always the best farming, 

 and whose success will be worth more than all other influences in making it 

 fashionable for all other farmers to follow their example. 



We may rail at the good-old-way man as much as we please, then- is only one 

 lever that will ever get him out of his old rut : thai is tin knoivlcdge that mofiey 

 is to be made by the better new way. Under tie' genial influence of "cash 

 profits" the variest hunkerism of the inland hills will melt like the dew before 

 the morning sun: and our carper shall he a carper no more, forever, but a fore- 

 most light of the modern school. AH these things he now rails at shall then 

 be familiar habits with him since his grandfather's time. 



