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Show Cannot be Ignorant. Tho farmer sits down by the fho in the evening after his days work is done, lln takes up tho paper and reads of BOino great discovery that lias been made by some pornon along tho lino of science, lie is delighted. llo reads and reads, to seo tl he can get tho thing through his head. Goes out the next morning tella it to Ills neighbor. They both talk it over, and spend much time in trying to inform themselves on this new d-velopcment d-velopcment and this Is all good mid praiswoithy. Hut let us call tho attention at-tention of tlio farmer to'liis own vocation voca-tion and seo if ho is giving it as much attention to it as tho progres of tho times demanded. All know ho ia very anxious to work his laud at a profit. Hut how to rcncji that point is or ought to be tho great question with linn. Can ho follow tho old practises of fifty years ago and expect to leap the s.imo results as tho man who is giving his best thoughts to his voiation bn It what it may. All say that would ba unreasonable unreason-able to expect such n thing, llo must come to the thought soon if ho has not already that tho iiiiineiihc progress which has been mado in agricultuto roqtiiics that ho ought not to bo ignorant ignor-ant in regard to his own vocation. He must keep pnee with tho timet?, he must bo n student of bin own work. It is required of hint to day, that ho has a tiaiued mind equal to his trained body, that has to tho manual work. The bliuuhitd of intellect is being raised iu our Agricultural Colleges those dnyB by tlio young men who nre attending thoso schools in a maikcd degree, and books aro being scut out from those lu-rlitutious lu-rlitutious that every farmer of the laud who wishes to understand his vocation should read and study. Like ono writer has said "Tlio plowsharo of thought, must tear loose tho roots of ignorance." |