BOOK I. 



IMPORTANCE AND POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE. 



" Give fools their gold, and knaves their power, 

 Let fortune's bubbles rise or fall, 

 Who sows, a field, or trains a flower, 

 Or plants a tree, is more than all. 



" For he who blesses most is blest. 



And God and man shall own his worth. 

 Who toils to leave, as his bequest, 

 An added beauty to the earth." 



— Whittier. 



