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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age
 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield:
 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:
  How read more 
 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! 
"Ten acres and a mule."
"Ten acres and a mule."
 The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility 
rests on possession and use of land.  
 The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility 
rests on possession and use of land. 
 He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
 [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]  
 He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
 [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] 
 Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of 
mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields read more 
 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.
 [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,
  Ut prisca gens mortalium,
   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
    Solutus omni faenore.] 
 When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses 
are kept, a cow is kept for read more 
 When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses 
are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. 
 Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.  
 Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,
 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. 
 He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is 
now fast rising read more 
 He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is 
now fast rising from affluence to poverty.