"Ten acres and a mule."

Three acres and a cow.

Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."