AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
FOP. THE 
TTariri, Grarden, and. Udouseliold. 
“AGUIOULTUISE IS TI1F. MOST HEALTHFUL, MOST USEFUL, ANH MOST XOIILE EMPLOYMENT OF MAN."- Wash, notox. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, ) ESTABLISHED IN 1842, ( TERMS: $1,50 per Annum in Advance, post-free; 
Publishers and Proprietors, J445 Broadway. \ German Edition issued at the same rates as in English. ^ Four Copies $5.— Single Number, 15 Cents. 
VOLUME XXXIX.-No. 8. NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1880. NEW SERIES-No. 403. 
A FARMER’S HOLIDAY AT THE TROUT STREAM. 
What have farmers to do with a sporting scene, 
and sport ? some Gradgrind may ask. In our 
view much! Work, hard work, and plenty of it, 
is the lot of every successful farmer. But the 
farmer’s life should not be all work ; he of all men 
deserves, for he fairly earns, his term of recrea¬ 
tion, and he should have it too. Many find their 
highest enjoyment in angling. If it is proper for 
any one, the sport is proper for the farmer, if his 
tastes so incline, when he leaves his toil for a 
change of scene. A day by a wild mountain 
stream, in the dark, still pools, where the trout 
await his coming, will furnish immediate pleasure, 
but its greatest value will be in the after-memories 
that will go far to make present labor lighter. 
Copyright, 1830, by Orange Judd Company 
Entered at the Post Office at New Yobk, N. Y., as Second Class Matter. 
