This farmer takes one or more agricultural papers, from which he learns many new methods of cultivation, while his knowledge of the reasons of various agricultural effects enables him to discard the injudicious suggestions of mere book farmers and uneducated dreamers.
Here are two specimens of farmers. Neither description is over-drawn. The first is much more careful in his operations than the majority of our rural population. The second is no better than many who may be found in America.
We appeal to the common sense of the reader of this work to know which of the two is the practical farmer—let him imitate either as his judgment shall dictate.
FINIS.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
Absorb—to soak in a liquid or a gas.
Abstract—to take from.
Acid—sour; a sour substance.
Agriculture—the art of cultivating the soil.