The sight of their neglected farms was also calculated to bring the poorer agriculturists to sober reflection.

"Humph!" grunted the cantankerous old agriculturist, not quite sure if he was being made fun of or if his resolution was being admired; "all I got to say is thet ef you want to stay here you gotter pay.

The invention of machinery at first threw thousands of skilled hand workers out of employment; in order to protect a few agriculturists, heavy duties were imposed on corn and wheat, and bread rose to famine prices just when laboring men had the least money to pay for it.

But it has a higher and more useful aim than merely to remind the practical agriculturist of what he already knows.

Architecture, again, touches the agriculturist nearly.

Many came to America expecting to find gold, and were disappointed, and were obliged to turn agriculturists, as in Virginia.