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per, and the capacity to wait. If he plant a thous- 

 and guineas however judiciously, they will not 

 sprout to-morrow. There have been, I know, Multi- 

 caulis fevers, and Peabody seedlings ; but these are 

 exceptional ; and the prizes which come through 

 subornation of the Patent Office, are rare, and dearly 

 paid for. 



Again, it must be remembered, that all success 

 depends more on the style of the man, than on the 

 style of his business. For one who is thoroughly in 

 earnest, farming offers a fair field for effort. But 

 the man who is only half in earnest, who thinks that 

 costly barns, and imported stock, and jaunty fencing, 

 and a nicely-rolled lawn are the great objects of 

 attainment, may accomplish pretty results ; but they 

 will be small ones. 



So the dilettante farmer, who has a smattering 

 of science, whose head is filled with nostrums, who 

 thinks his salts will do it all ; who doses a crop now 

 to feebleness, and now to an unnatural exuberance ; 

 who dawdles over his fermentations, while the neigh- 

 bor's oxen are breaking into his rye field ; who has 

 no managing capacity no breadth of vision, who 

 sends two men to accomplish the work of one let 

 such give up all hope of making farming a lucra- 

 tive pursuit. If, however, a man be thoroughly in 

 earnest, if he have the sagacity to see all over his 



