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not only for the beautiful and scientific cultivation which his 

 farm manilestly presents, but as the pioneer in a system of culti- 

 vation, which really opens now views in regard to agriculture, 

 and renders that pursuit additionally inviting and attractive, 

 from considerations whicli heretofore have not been found in the 

 estimate. The received opinion is, " that a man with a frood 

 farm, well stocked, may, with industry and frugality, be some- 

 what independent." But this is not all, for in my opinion, by 

 uniting scientific knowledge to diligent supervision, a man with 

 tolerable judgment cannot make a more profitable or safe invest- 

 ment than in tlie soil. It is diiierent, however, from every oth- 

 er investment, for tlie first annual return being no more tlian the 

 sixteenth of one per cent., should produce no discouragement. 

 Your annual income may be carried Irom tliis small beginning to 

 10, 15, or 20 per cent., depending entirely upon your own perse- 

 verance and intelligence. I will conclude by saying that Mr. 

 Pell carries forward one principle, which no one should forget or 

 neglect — he pertinaciously returns to the soil annually all that 

 he takes from it. I do not mean in dollais and cents, for a tithe 

 of the money value of his crop will return to the soil all it re- 

 quires. Neglect this, and your fields will very soon yield you 

 only a titlie of what they ought to do. 



The Secretary — has never seen any farm where so much of the 

 true farmer is manifested by the work. It is a principality— of 

 which the soul is the master, R. L. Pell. At the very prime of 

 life, with a wife and children, all in perfect health, he is in the 

 midst of every luxury as temperate as a hermit. Looking at the 

 farm in all its details from dawn of morning to sunset, everyday, 

 using with judgment all the modern means discovered by science, 

 managing the finances so as to be just and properly liberal, but 

 with perfect control of every dollar, he presents to his fellow man 

 an eminent example of that prosperity which health, wealth and 

 sound morality can give. And a rare example it is, for it is a 

 melancholy truth that too many of our young men, as well as 

 those of the old world, make brief dispatch of the blessings heaped 

 for them by their fond fathers, making quick and fearful dilapi- 

 diition of wealth, and health and morals too. 



