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that the cultivation of the vine is no longer confined to that region ; 

 but is extending with rapidity up and down the Ohio, and in the in- 

 terior, and is attracting the attention of their most enterprising and 

 intelligent citizens ; some in the hope that it will he the means of 

 lessening intemperance, and in which hope I most sincerely concur. 



A gentleman who makes the cultivation of the Strawberry his spec- 

 ial business, raises on five eights of an acre, more than three thous- 

 and boxes. These he sold by contract for the season, at twenty-five 

 cents per box, or about twelve hundred dollars per acre. "Who has 

 not heard of Mr. Pell's apples r This gentleman has an orchard of 

 several thousand trees, consisting of two varieties, to which he has spec- 

 ially adapted his soil by scientific cultivation, most of which he ships 

 to Liverpool and receives in return a very large sum. These are not 

 chimeras of the imagination but incontrovertible facts, selected from 

 a multitude, all bearing concurrent testimony to the utility of a prop- 

 er division of labor, and a wise appropriation of soils to the crops 

 for which they are best adapted. In other Avords, they prove the 

 utility and indispensible necessity of a scientific education of farmers ; 

 for all these arts of cultivation depend upon science, and of course 

 progress in them must depend on scientific knowledge. This part of 

 our subject is capable of the most varied and extensive illustration. 

 For example, a farmer is to purchase a horse. How important for 

 him to know what breed is best adapted to his purpose ; what are the 

 characteristics of a good animal, and what food and treatment he re- 

 quires. Suppose he is entirely ignorant of veterinary science, and his 

 valuable beast is sick. He sends for a horse doctor, who doses dob- 

 bin with noxious drugs ; as usual the horse dies ; the farmer buries 

 his favorite animal and pays the doctor's bill, all the while consoling 

 himself that his loss must be ascribed to a mysterious Providence, 

 rather than to the ignorance of the quack. Again he is to purchase 

 a stock of cows. Is it of small importance to him to understand the 

 traits of the various breeds, the marks of the best animals in each, 

 and the adaptation of the same to his particular locality or purpose ? 

 Some are best for beef; others for milk ; the Durhams, for rich inter- 

 val lands, and for the stall ; the Jerseys, for the peculiar richness of 

 their milk, and the hardy Devons, for the short hilly pastures, and for 

 the climate of New En gland ; some species are specially valuable for 

 one purpose ; iew, are equally good for all. Who cannot appreciate 

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