Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-11-10
MISCELLANY.
From the Oxford, N. c. Examiner.
FARMERS ARITHMETIC.0

1IoFtS OF QgFlCmHfe.-ll TIE gfeal
Franklin had lived IA the country, his OBJ
serving eye would have noticed, and his
discriminating Judgment have solved the
following difficult problems:
J. Farmers ATE more imposed on than
any other class Of the community: they
pay nearly the whole expense of the State
Government; are oppressed by the com
mercIal regulations Of foreign nations
never have much money; YET every indus
tuons prudent farmer grows richl
:. The Mechanic receives bis IS cents
or a dollar day, yet remains poor; the
farmer earns his seventeen cents a day,
and grows rich
3. Merchants, physicians, lawyers and
nihers receive their thousands per annun,
DIE poor: while the farmer scarcely receives
as many tens, yet dies richl
How are all these strange results pro-
duccd! All calculations in dollars and
cens fail to account for it. Those who
re determined 10 bring every thing to the
standard of dollars aud cents pronounce
agrIcul,ure to be wholly Improbable, when
ne act that nearly all the wealth Of the
country has been obtained by agriculture
~tares them in the face. Ia the opinion OF
th3se caIcuIAlors, agriculture IS the proper
omsnu If such Only as have not sense E.
nougl g. Pnr,ae any thing else.
The mlsc1ef- which such calculations
are Joung IN our country, first Induced me
% can public attention to the Farmers Il
ribip..tjc Bu; having been more accus-
ior, to handling the plough than the pen
am altogether unable to do jGStice TO the
subject, II some ADLER hand would take
Il up. dispel the mist now resting on the
subject, and show rs clearly the whole
truth of thu matter 1t would do sufficient
good to compensate the labors Of the abest
patriot.
When the mechanic lays down his tools
and the professional man IS idle, they are
sinking, because their expenses are going
On, and their profits suspended Not So
the farmer: whsle he sleeps, his crop
grows, aud bis stock continues to increase,
and when he spends social evening with
his ncighbor, every thing continues to ad-
,aace. The Farmers arithmetic, shows
hattae Erncr grows rich by saving,
while others continue poor by spend NJ
Other have first 10 make money, and
men give /; Tor meat, drink and raimcut,
while the farmer obtains all these at home.
If he wants fltlanb or pig, he has one
without losing "a day or two IC trying to
buy one. il he wants new coat, the in-
dusfry Of hl5 w.f2 supplies it. In short,
he wants but few, very few things, which
he cannot obtain on his own farm. Why.
.hcn, should the iumcr repine because be
has not the money 10 buy abroad or mca
sure his wealth by comparing hls money
with that OF others, who must give Il all
for things winch he has without buying !
Surely farmer may without sIgh re-
sign to others the gaudy fabrics OF foreign
artists, while he is clothed by the labor OF
the hand that soothcs his cares, aud strews
with pleasure his journey through life.
When | see "a farmer appear M company
genteely dressed IN homespun, | think OF
) lemons description of a good wife 4:
Her husband is known IN the gates when
he stitch among the elders" and most
cordially DO | congratulate the Possesso'
Of such prize.