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STATE AGRICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
tion necessarily leads to the improvement of his own profits and 
pleasures. He is, under this general system of progress and 
improvement, led to exercise more discrimination and reason in 
adapting crops to soils and seasons, and in selecting the most 
appropriate classes and breeds of stock for his particular local¬ 
ity and market. Thus, in becoming a complete and rational 
master of himself and “ the situation,” he is better qualified, 
with improved facilities, for controlling and handling, at all 
times, for all desirable purposes, all his animals for either sale 
or service—better prepared to gain in all his efforts. 
While it is not expected that every farmer can arrive at and 
enjoy this pleasant and profitable state of things in a day, it is 
certain that he can, at once, take the first step^ and then he may 
rapidly approach its consummation ; and, what is encouraging, 
each step will show the practicability and desirableness of 
another, and so on endlessly. 
