EXHIBITIONS (AGRICULTURAL)--AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS, chap. xxxviii, 225; author has attended at least fifty, 225; concludes they were not what they might and should be, 225; the reform must begin with the people, 225; the lot of the public speaker, 225-6; what is needed to render our annual Fairs useful and instructive detailed, 226; each farmer should hold himself bound to make some contribution to his, 226; an interesting and running commentary should given, 227-8; liberal premiums should be given for proficiency in farming, 228-9; need for improvement in the character of the public speaking, 229; counties should be canvassed to enrol exhibitors, 230; all in a locality should feel a common interest in their fair, 230. EYE-SMART, 125. FABRICS, 200. FAIRS. _See_ EXHIBITIONS. FALL, the, 126, 173, 174, 193, 318. FARMING-- WILL FARMING PAY, chap. i, 13; will it pay considered, 13; the case of a man without capital, 13; difficulties common to all pursuits, 13-4; Astor referred to, 14; earning the first thousand dollars, 14; instance of remarkable success in farming, near Boston, 15; case of a farmer in Northern Vermont, 15-6; Professor Mapes's success, 14; profitable return from a fruit farm on the Hudson, 15-6; that shiftless farming don't pay admitted, 17; good farming profitable, 17; farming not recommended as a pursuit to every man, 17; it can never be dispensed with, 17; it is the first, and most essential of human pursuits, 17; all are interested in having it honored and prosperous, 17; if unprofitable, it is from mismanagement, 17; the author's aim in these essays, 17. GOOD AND BAD HUSBANDRY, chap. ii, 18; good and bad farming considered, 18; necessity master of us all, 18; dictates the line to follow in farming, 18-9; application of the principle to pasturing, 19-20; illustration of good farming, 20-21; excuses for waste insufficient, 21; truths on which good farming depend, 21; good crops invariably practicable, 21-2; rarely fail to pay, 23; increasing productiveness of the soil the fairest single test, 22; where to farm considered, 23; experience of the author's father regarding the East and West, 23; circumstances qualifying it, 23; the difficulties of the pioneer's life, 23-4; purchase of an "improvement" recommended in certain cases, 24; civilized places are to be preferred for settlement, 24; co-operation may change matters, 24; good farming will pay everywhere, 25; no one having a good farm advised to migrate, 25; money is made by farming near New York as fast as in the West, 25; where migration is advised, and its advantages, 25; troubles attendant on buying on credit, 25;