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draw the plow with a device attached to their horns or their tails; 
when nice old ladies who happened to have homely faces and 
black cats were drowned in the river as witches, is about played 
out, except with now and then a bundle of bones and muscles 
that “lives where his father lived, dies where his father died, and 
thinks the moon that rolls above his head is no larger that his 
father’s shield.” 
But very few farmers however, merit this description. Some 
one has said that “the cultivated farmer is better than the culti¬ 
vated farm.” The cultivated farmer is one who uniting science 
and intelligence with practical experience is enabled to expand the 
prolific field of agriculture and add almost infinitely to its resources. 
He takes advantage of the metaphoric transformations wrought 
by change of climate, by hibridizing, by culture, by which the 
poisoned almond has been changed into the luscious peach ; the 
bitter sloe into the delicious plum, and a whole tribe of barren 
weeds into nutricious grain, and shows how completely the prop¬ 
erties of plants may be ameliorated and changed in their natures 
by these processes of science and how infinitely this almost bound¬ 
less field of research may be expanded into a never ending subject 
of inquiry. The laws of science which apply to every branch of 
agriculture, the extraordinary development and discoveries which 
are making in every part of agriculture and horticulture, and 
which aid in their advancements; the abandoning of old processes 
and baseless theoriesfbr the adoption of facts drawn from “log¬ 
ical and scientific deductions ” may be regarded as some assurance 
that most desirable results have already been accomplished. 
The cultivated farmer is one who investigates all the laws of 
nature ; for in his farm he finds a great volume spread out before 
him, and learns from it “how nature in all her statutes, is a many 
stepped pyramid, from whose top man looks out and sees the 
great mechanic and agriculturist entering into a higher and more 
subtle domain—the spiritual, where he may express his wisdom,, 
benevolence and power.” 
And right here we want to say, that the farmer has reason to 
find fault, not with the implements that inventive genius has 
brought out, but with the monopoly by which designing men 
have contrived to control the manufacture and sale of many of 
