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Farmers frequently do some very foolish things, f or which they can give no good or substantial reason. Now, who ever heard of a medical society in viting a farmer to deliver an address oi therapeutics, or of a legal fraternitj calling some tiller of the soil to talk on criminal jurisprudence? We will venture that the oldest inhabitant cannot recall so lndicrous an event. Yet at nearly every agricultural fair some lawyer or doctor, who is as ignorant of practical agriculture as the average Hottentot is of Greek, is booked for an address to farmers, is to talk to them upon a subject with -which they are, or at least should be, entirely familiar, and ol which the speaker knows next to nothing. The farmers of this country should drop this custom, which has nothing but its antiquity to recommend it, and get some of their own class to talk to them on such occasions.