326 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
things, have entered into his calculation. He is a large reader 
of agricultural periodicals, and agricultural books, and is a 
progenitor, and often the founder of farmers’ clubs, and of town 
and county fairs. Though his object is to be useful and happy 
rather than powerful and wealthy, yet he finds himself insensi¬ 
bly becoming the most influential man in his neighborhood, and, 
like Abraham, getting “very rich in cattle, in silver and in 
gold.” He deduces his practice from science, and helps his 
experience by analysis; and mitigates the severity of labor by 
mental recreation. After growing hoary in his profession, he 
dies, bequeathing to his children a rich inheritance, and leaving 
a name, as worthy of celebration as Pope's Man of Ross. 
