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will quietly neglect their garden, or the fine vegetables which, 

 are so easily raised, for they are too tempting to the palate to be 

 neglected. The person who has a taste lor the beautiful, has an 

 equal relish for the good. It only needs a little time to fit up the 

 grounds around the dwellings of the farmer beautiful and taste- 

 ful in their appearance, wearing an air of comfort and luxury 

 whicli would well repay the owner for the slight care and atten- 

 tion bestowed upon them. In a country like ours, it is the duty 

 of all those engaged in agricultural pursuits to add something to 

 the beautiful as well as to the useful departments of agriculture. 



No class of men have an equal riglit to be as proud as the 

 farmer. He serves no man ; for him God has given " seed, time, 

 and harvest ;" if one crop fails another is unusually abundant j 

 he knows no want ; the earth produces in abundance the good 

 things of this life, or the means of procuring them. With a 

 little care, prudence and industry, his table can be supplied 

 with all the delicacies of the season, and all that the country 

 affords. 



The artisan, whose life is spent in the dense and crowded cities, 

 without so much as to look at the green fields and gorgeous for- 

 ests, invents and puts into practical operations all the improve- 

 ments which the heart of man can wish, to aid the farmer in his 

 avocation. No class of men can boast of being as well supplied 

 with useful implements in their business as the farmers. Ingenu- 

 ity seems to have exhausted its resources, as it were, in inventing 

 labor-saving machines and implements for the farmer's use, and 

 it would seem as if not half the labor is now required to culti- 

 vate the same amount of land as formerly. 



All improvements should, as far as they are useful, be adopted 

 and engrafted upon the original implement or design, and there- 

 by improve and perfect the whole. 



To improve, not to destroy, is the object of all useful inven- 

 tions. No body of men know as well as the farmers that all 

 radical reforms are not improvements, and the farmers are a class 

 of men not easily humbugged, and if they should be, woe to the 

 source from which the humbug cometh. 



