Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-02-08
AGRICULTURE Z.
TIE FARMERS LIFE.
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BY H. CoLmAN'
What means OF imparting pleasure is an i'm
proved agriculture. How many charming exam
pies present themselves among ns OF improve
ments which, every eye gaZes upon with unming-
led delight. Let man, according to his power,
take his ten, his twenty, his fifty, his hundred
acres Let him combe the hair, and wash the face
of nature Let him subdue, clear cultivate, enrich,
embeilish it. Let him smooth the rough places,
and drain the wet, and Gil up the sunken and ell
rich the barren. Let him enclose 1t with neat
and substantial fence. Let him line its borders
and road sides with ornamental trees and let Inn
stock every proper part with vines ana iriIl,s -
Let his fields and meadows wave with the golden
harvest, and let the hills be covered with the
helds rejoicing in the uness with which his Ia
bors, under the blessing of God, have spread their
table, and who, when he goes among them, hasten
from all sides to meet him and gratefully recognize
7 in him friend and beDeiactor, and lick the hand
which is accustomed to feed and fonde them.
Here now let the neatly painted cottage,
with its green shades, it piazzas trellised with
vines its sides covered with the spreading elm or
the flowing acacia, with here and there the beau-
! tilul fir 10 shade the picture, and the mountain
ash showing its rich clusters of crimson fruit
ameng tho deep green foliage, and the smooth and
yerant lawn stretching its soft aud beautiful car
pet in the front view then look again AMI see
parents at the close of the day, resting from their
abors and enjoying the calm evening, with the
ing before them in all the bnoyancy OF youthful
innocence and delights and il, at such al hour as
this, you can hear the hymn OF grateful praise
rising from this humble abode OF pence and love,
and its charming notes mingIing with the music
of the g,iYgling brook tnt flows near by, or brok-
EN- by the occasional shriIl and hollow notes OF the
fearless birds, which deem themselves loving
members of this loving household; it, then,
whether traveller or sujourner, your heart is not
touched with this charming and not unusual PIC.
ture of rural felicity, cease TO call yourself Il IMAM.
If still you sigh for the hustle and noise and con-
finement ollhe city, with its impure water and
Offensive odors, its despicabe atfectations, lis
heurlless iormalites and violent eXcitements with
its midnigh, festivities, with its utter desullon
Of sympathy, with lis low estimate OF human life,
with lis squalid poverty, its multiplied forms OF
wretchedness and crime, lis pride, lis vanity, us
ambition, its pomp, its severity-hen go back to
your gilded prison house, and TO pleasures that an
uncorrupted and refined taste, pccnatomed 10 drink
| in the free air of heaven. and TO appreciate rs
freshness, its purity and its sauhriry, and you viii
| tind no occasion 10 cove orenvy. The man who
by his cultivation and good hnsbandry presents
such picture to the passer by, shall not he be
called henefac ior to the community? HAS he
not done much to improve and bless society by
his example? Has he not built IA monument TO
his own honor, mere eloquent than the marble