Excerpt from First Lessons on Agriculture: For Canadian Farmers and Their Families

I beg permission to present to you, and, through you, to Canadian Farmers and their Families, the following book, which I have prepared as an humble contribution to the great work which, by your voluntary and intelligent labours, you have done so much to promote, and which forms the basis and life of our country's wealth and prosperity.

Identified as I am by birth and early education with the agricultural population of this country, I regret to see so many of our agricultural youth leave the noblest of earthly employments, and the most independent of social pursuits, for the professions, the counting room, the warehouse, and even for petty clerkships and little shops. I know that persons in public offices, and inhabitants of cities and towns, who have no farms, must, for the most part, bring up their sons to other employments than that of agriculture; personal peculiarities and relations may prompt to the same course in regard to some farmers sons; and a divine call may select from the farm, as well as from the shop and the college, for a divine vocation; but that, as a general rule, the sons of farmers, as soon as they begin to be educated, leave the farm, is a misfortune to the parties themselves, a loss to agriculture, and to the country.

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