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3. In the award of premiums, more or less of dissatisfac- 

 tion will always be felt. A man who has worked a whole 

 year for a premium cannot be expected to lose it without 

 some pain. Premiums should be awarded with great care, 

 \\ Uh scrupulous impartiality, and every effort made by the 

 loading, substantial farmers to soothe and keep down every- 

 thing like bitterness and faction, in consequence of disap- 

 pointment. 



4. It is indispensable that agricultural papers should go 

 hand in hand with agricultural societies. We will venture 

 to say, that no society will long exist prosperously, which 

 does not have a reading membership ; and that a society 

 can hardly fail to prosper if its members are regular readers 

 of agricultural papers. 



SHIFTLESS TRICKS, 



To let the cattle fodder themselves at the stack ; they 

 pull out and trample more than they eat. They eat till the 

 edge of appetite is gone, and then daintily pick the choice 

 parts ; the residue, being coarse and refuse, they will not 

 afterwards touch. 



To sell half a stack of hay and leave the lower half open to 

 rain and snow. In feeding out, a hay knife should be used 

 on the stack ; in selling, either dispose of the whole, or re- 

 move that which is left to a shed or barn. 



It is a shiftless trick to lie about stores and groceries, 

 arguing with men that you have no time, in a new country f 

 for nice farming for making good fences; for smooth 

 meadows without a stump ; for draining wet patches which 

 disfigure fine fields. 



To raise your own frogs in your own yard ; to permit, 

 year after year, a dirty, stinking, mantled puddle to stand 

 before your fence in the street. 



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