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• 08 Apr 08
  

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  • It is verily a great paradox, that agriculture should ever be held in low estimation. Such, nevertheless, is the fact. It is no uncommon thing, that we hear that even those who are engaged in it, and are dependent on it for a living, express a great abhorrence of it.
  • It might be supposed, that a thing so indispensable to the existence as well as to the enjoyment of mankind, as the cultivation of the earth, would have received, in all time, the highest honors and the highest place in the affections of the people, as well as all possible attention in rendering it perfect. Such has not been the case. In looking on the works of man, it is seen, that agriculture has been strangely neglected; and, that this neglect has been most apparent in those most interested in its results.
  • Excerpts are from The Farm and the Fireside by John L. Blake, © 1852 Alden, Beardsley and Company

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