Show CULTURE IN IM agriculture no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought as agriculture 1 I know nothing so pleasant to the mind as the discovery of anything that is at once new and valuable bable nothing that so lightens and sweetens toil as the hopeful pur suit of such discovery and how vast and how varied a field is agriculture for such discovery the mind already train trained ed to thought in the country school or higher school cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of enjoyment joy ment every blade of grass is a study and to produce two where there was but one is both a profit and a pleasure and not grass alone but soils seeds and seasons hedges ditches and fences draining droutha drout hs ani an irrigation plowing hoeing and harrowing reaping mowing and threshing saving crops pests of crops diseases of crops and what hat will prevent or cure them noga horses and cattle sheep goats and poultry trees shrubs fruits plants and sowers flowers the thousand things of which these are specimens specimen 3 each a world of study within itself by abraham lincoln from address at wisconsin state fair milwaukee wis sept 30 1859 |