II g agnn * l aisi2Or.; ' Oyttt6 -earas , apyr,lut being eon , ylficed - tif an errsir, but especially an_ oh -add' 'again has it' hien \'• thtit of all.pedPle' in the "world, far • tOretire the most eoppionefecli, that / their' ‘-• -do;th.lage for no . Uglier' reason than= that deetr them• gen '---•grathtiis.befcire A:that-they have , a walLof • their 'Own, at.l4.ltf4t:tto-shole''world,Cin• • 'lnciffitth theta: ,Semis spch farmers have knoivit 'Certainly, but'..ptill with trnth • cud' aayrthat I •niiielier among - My • country friends not a. few' of a contrary kifidi The other day I was in conver- . . ' it with my old 'f • d hfi . astio nen .1,.- s e . of Highfield farm; n'''Manliorn', whom I much!; 'though When 'I tell , hint Au . ," he,,-usually•rePlies ; 'The, boo: is ott, the -otherleg,. Mr., I lumphrey •;, the • bocit4ti•oh the 'other, leg' We were talk ,times. together—bat you shall'hutie:.the.account that -he gave, of htlitalf, as r mil as I . can remember in . • hie OWn word's.- ' • • 4 1 have been as ' obstinate, , pig-headed tirturn , ..in my. time; 1, suppose, as .ever striale,across, a furrearrbut the day has gaits by now, and high time that it had. - - ,The,fikh of my plough ;and, and the sward of my grass, land, are different to tibat they used to be. • , • ' • Witty years ago; James Holt. was my_ neighbor. A Wiser Man than I: was, or ever shrill be wait James, though , at that • tithe I 'did not think so. When wheel • • ploughs were • getting • common, he says • 'io' ; 'Neighbor Ashfield, you - are fal- Wig:behind - the times, you , must set up - a wheel plough or • two: * c won7t' eaid •"My father aever had it Wheel, plough-on the farm, and-why I !You knoir, hir. Humphrey, that far -- /hiers'efiere ahvays blunt in their speech, one more so than farmer. Ash.. 'field; .Whon draining came into use_ more than it had ever been before; my neigh- Isbr says to me : 'You are standing in • yotie own, light, in not draining your land !mire than you dorbet better late than never.- Better begin; now.' eI won't,'says kalet - those cui up their meadows, and--lay-otit their-money-in slough tiles, that like; my meadows shall remain as , they always have beet4'.. - . 'Well,' says he, 'at 'any rate trim up - your hedges and : headlands, or 'ndlands, as you call.them, a little closer. There's a deal of land lost on , - your fa`rm. Trim up your hedges and headlands.' , won't,' says I ; 'My father was as grioti,a farmer as any in the parish; he' knew What he was about as'well - as you do; and he never- trimmed up hialtead• lauds more than I do.' Soon after this he was nt me again.- - Your land is stiff, neighbor, says , he; I Would advise you to try one of the new fashioned clod crushers, for. you would find "it an advantage. I wont'artid.l. Such- jimcracks may suit somelpeople; but they' wont suit me, my harrows break the ground quite as well or better than 9 clod crusher; if some folks : as i could mention were half as fond of work as they-are-of new whit s,i it would - be krtheir credit. Noighbor .4311 field, says he, .a year or awo after threshing machines had come in fashion, you and.l must do as other. er:people do—we must set up a thresh ing machine. - I wont, says I. Why should I do that, that my father never did I And why should I take the bread out of the mouth of the laboiing man ? But never did I see my neighbor more in earnest than when he came to ask me to give something towards the Sunday Schools. Lend them a helping hand, said he; for they are doing more gcod in the parish than you think rot. I wont, said I. We never used to have Sunday Schools, and plough•lads and dairy-maids do'none too much as it is. What they will do ,:if you make scholars of them. I cant tell. All this time I thoutht myself 'won drous wise, id not heing led astray by' the new Tangled notions of my neighbors ;' but at last my eyes were opened, for there was, not a farmer in the , Pitrish who hadn't better crops than I had,' I saw that my neighbor with a wheel plough could do without a driver, and bold the plough tail with half the trouble that it edema, so I set up three or four wheel ploughs i.%and what IcOuld do without them now it Would billard to any. . Keep your lend wet at top and dry at bot tommaid my neighbor, when I began to listen to him. , I took lie advice, had my meadows well drained,: and never 'had any cause to grudge either the expense or the trouble.. Ho whotdoesn't drain his farm, if it is a wet one, Is draining' his. own phrso.••by bad manager /lonic - O.OmM me end saw that I lilt an sore or tnittf ground by my . alovenly,bedgels - and kekllettde; so I net torwork anchlied them tritimittltp close. 'lt Was a foolish thing that _ this was not done _ before.— :, • , •, ---- I wee backward en o ugh in venturing on 'a heavy - iron press -wheel s oled crusher;; but Whe&l'did;" I found more 'Work done by it, than hale& doe pelt' of harrows. would 4 9 . No one eau persuade me , to set it aside' non. Nohodietood stiffer than:l`Otlngaitnit the threahlog maohinne ; but fur all that, whe&l eon hiir_otisili , ' my. neighbor could turn a ban gred bishala ... a