From the Oxford N. c. Examiner. FARMERS ARrTHMETIC.'
FARMERS AktEhMGEAOs

 Profits of Agricaltare.-If the great Franklin had ever lived in the country, his observing eye would have noticed, and his discriminating judgment have solved the following difficult problems:

 l. Farmers are more imposed upon than any other class of the community they pay near the whole expense of the State Government are sometimes op- pressed by the onerOus measures. ot the General Government, and by the commer- cial regulations of foreign nations never have much money, yet every industrious prudent farmer grows rich .e

 2. The mechanic receives his 75 cents or dollar day, yet he remains poor the farmer earns his seventeen cents a day, and grows rich :,

 8. Merchants, Physicians, Lawyers. and others, receive their thousand per annum, and die poor, while the Farmer scarcely receives as many tens, yet dies rich

 How are these strange results produced ! All calculations in dollars and cents fail to account for it. Those who are determin- ed to bring every thing to the standard of dollars and cents, pronounce agriculture to be wholly unproftable, when the fact that nearly all the wealth of the country has been obtained by agriculture, stares them in the face. Tn the OpinioD of these eal- culators, agriculture is the proper pursuit of such only who have not sense enough to pursue any thing else:

 The mischief which such calculations are doing in our country. first induced me to call the public attention to the Farmers 1 Ay;tkmetic. But having been more accus- toned to handling the plough than the pen, l I am altogether unable to do justice to the snh;ect If some able hand would take it mn a;snel the mist now resting on the sub feet and show us clearly the whole truth of ,he matter, it would be sufficiently good l to compensate the labors of the ablest pat l When the mechanic lays down his tools