from The Farmers Monthly Nsitor.


Ihs1r7 and Practice.
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acquired in one years practice, than
in five OF study" And This is as true
in farming as in LAWN ploughing
the fields as in poring over Plowden.
j is said also to be true, that "the
best Of theorists are not apt to be the
best of praclisers.' Those who fail
at the bar are sometimes the best OF
elementary writer's, or reporters; and
sometimes those who are good at es,
says on larming-full OF general prin.
cipes, and wise in the Chemistry of
agriculture, make bat sorry crops; Just
as some of the most charming "blue,
stockings" who are bewitching with
a pen, mend a coat but indil1erently,
and are not worth kissing in the art
making pudding. Those who farm
in theory may be likened to the men
of genius that the King of Prussia
once kept around him, whose business
it was to suggest schemes of improve,
ment from which Il selection was
made such as were deemed practi-
cal and within the means of the State
TO execute.


Taking the works upon agricul-
ture now in existence a most valuable
fund of knowledge Is found, and per,
haps the young Farmer cannot spend
a few dollars with so much advantage
in any other way as in the purchase of
these books; but experience alone can
make large purchase ayaiable;
there must be Judgment in the appI.
cation of the experience of Others.
Some there are who turn their backs
upon book knowledge, as they term
il. and contine themselves to practice
alone, but their very practice is most
ly learned from others-lt is sort OF
hereditary theory from father to son,
from one person to another, and tai.
always falls short Of the united amount
OF theory and practice together. Ma,
ny quite clever off:handed lawyers
have been produced by attending
Courts; but the ornaments to the pro-
tession have ever been those who first
laid the foundation deep in the theory
and elementary principles, and then
applied those principles with sound
judgment in practice. Theory may
further be considered as the poetry of
the science; practice as the plain prose
of agriculture; and the Theoral like
the Poet, when there is but theory,
has rather a spare crop and lean
diet. So half the pleasure which isl
more titan money wealth to the farm.
ef, is never felt by him who is all prac-
tice, 30 eye for the beauties and bios
SONS of spring, who does not sympa,
thise with the Joyous birds, and who
never stoops to pluck the blossoms
from the enamelcd bank Of spring.
The two must be blended - theory
and practice, poetry and prose, fancy
and lact--to make the prosperous
happy farmer, the ornament to socie
ty, blessing to his race, the noblest
production to a bountifuI Providence.
We are on the increase, as we be.
lieve, ofthis class Of men. Agricul,
ture is on the advance, and outnum.
bering as the farmers do, all other
classes in our land, they have the
means, and most Of them we trust en-
icy IA large and full share of the bles-
sings of life. r.


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