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to secure other horses, and your own time at day wages, and then 
expect to get back within a particular period your money. One 
must know as a farmer that he cannot count his entire time en¬ 
tirely and precisely as the mechanic would count his time, and as 
a man engaged in business would count the time of the man whom 
he hires. A farmer has a great deal of time that relatively is leis¬ 
ure time, and he must not count that time, though he may make it 
pay if he puts it to good use. A man must do a great deal on the 
farm largely from the motive of pleasure—the pleasure of seeing it 
improved in his hands, and although the returns of that year may 
not be safely counted up in ordinary arithmetic, yet to me it is a 
labor I will venture to say will pay in its way on the farm. The 
youth leaves home at the end of his time with more muscular and 
vital forces, and the labor of life on the farm, taking a series of } r ears 
together will fully justify the methods, and yet a good many of 
those very methods if applied by the ordinary arithmetic would 
have proved failures if we had counted each day’s work at $2.50 a 
day, counting all his time. He would not have entered upon those 
improvements that turned out to be profitable, and yet the differ¬ 
ence between unthrift and prosperity in ten years will be found just 
there, that one man had entered upon those improvements, and the 
other man did not, and that in his arithmetic he included a good 
many things he could not count in money. If the remote returns, 
and if the social and physical advantages were all taken into the 
estimate, it will be found at the end of a series of years that the 
course taken abundantly justified itself. 
And also in reference to this question of machinery. It should be 
said, I think, that machinery, through its introduction for farming, 
has enlarged production very much, and that reduction of price has 
accrued to the benefit of the whole world, and consequently a large 
portion of the benefit that might otherwise accrue to farmers alone 
has slipt away from them and has gone to other classes; but we 
ought not to regard that. If the farmer can do his work as well 
and easier, he should he content, and he should feel, if he can do 
his work with no more expenditure of labor, and then hand over 
this larger production and easier conditions of life to his fellow man, 
it should be a thing that he should be willing to do, and that indi¬ 
rectly, advantageous results will come back to him. He passes over 
produce to all the mechanical and economical world, and they, in 
