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of the weather, and, to him, all important events, where 

 he was, what he did each day, and ending, after about 

 thirty years, in keeping an account of the number of 

 horses he had owned, together with the diseases they had 

 been troubled with, and the means of cure employed by 

 him and others. And this was accompanied, the greater 

 part of the time, by the most industrial habits of his 

 hands, working almost incessantly oh his farm or else- 

 where, being second to none in this respect according to 

 his physical strength. Thus he became a very useful 

 citizen as well as benefactor, and was endeared to his 

 family for. producing his full share of the necessaries of 

 life by his own hands. 



" Alike to him is time or tide, 

 December's snows or July's pride; 

 Alike to him is tide or time, 

 Moonless midnight or matin prime." 



Being animated by the moving picture of enjoyment 

 and industry, he thus passed along (as in his school-boy 

 days) until he is brought to reflect more seriously upon 

 choosing some occupation for the future that would be 

 congenial to his mind, when one day he chanced to pick 

 up a copy of the first volume of Judge Buel's Cultivator, 

 published at Albany, N. Y., which he became very much 

 interested in, and he soon learned to appreciate its use- 

 fulness while reading it very attentively with both pleas- 

 ure and profit; after which he was not long in making 

 up his mind what course to pursue for a livelihood. 



Being intensely fond, from youth, of the horse, there- 

 fore the study of it in health and disease would be just 

 the occupation in life to afford ample opportunity to sat- 



