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habit of contributing, over bis own signature, to an agricul- 

 tural journal, will be astonished to tind how many have heard 

 of him, and are glad to know him, should he happen for the 

 first time to visit a state fair or other large gathering of 

 farmers. The habit of writing also leads to the habit of 

 study and self-improvement. 



Some farmers who would frequently contribute valuable 

 experience to the public, are restrained b}^ the feeling that they 

 can not express themselves well, perhaps can not spell well, 

 or write well. These need not trouble any one. The writing 

 must be legible, and be written on one side of the paper only. 

 Otherwise it does not matter how it looks, or what the spelling 

 is, or how it is expressed. If it is all right, it will save the 

 editor some work, but that work is what he is paid for, and 

 what he has to perform on the majority of communications 

 sent in. As it appears in the paper it will read all right, and 

 nobody but the editor will ever know that it was otherwise, 

 and he will forget it in a week. Any editor who can obtain 

 valuable suggestions or narrations of useful experience, is only 

 too glad to put them into pro]3er form, provided only that the 

 communication is legible, and not written on two sides of the 

 paper, which always involves copying out for the printer, 

 which no editor will do unless the subject matter be more than 

 ordinarily important. 



The agricultural press does its very best for the farmer, and 

 should be cordially sustained by prompt payment of subscrip- 

 tion money and the contribution of experience and suggestions 

 for its columns. 



