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 found between the well systematised labors of their life, intervals of leisure for 

 general reading and improvement, and in that way made farming pay. 



An Hibernian minister once alluded'to death as an excellent institution, — an 

 institution but for which the world would so soon get over-peopled that mil 

 lions would die of starvation ! Farming is of equal antiquity and of superio 

 excellence, in our estimation, as it supports tbe millions and if practiced as 

 should be, will allow no one to die for want of subsistence. The farmers com- 

 prise a very large majority of the population of this country, — their suffrages 

 decide the characters of our rulers, — their arms defeat foreign foes and estab- 

 lish the blessings of a permanent government. And the young men who are 

 turning their eyes away from the cherished associations of their lives, had bet- 

 ter think twice before turning their back upon the old homestead, their birth 

 spot, and the family altar, and consider whether, taking all things into consid- 

 eration, any other business will, in the long run, pay better than intelligent 

 farming. 



