New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-30
Coo forth Into the felds:,

telling our young men that too many OF 'lel'i dic
irving to live by selling goods and that the cure
for their complaint is to be found IN gong bona
tide to work. We are impeed to repeat the
provocatlon.
It is sore evil that Labor, SO essential 10
Health, Vigor and Virtue, is generally Regarded
with aversion. Even those who boast that they
live by straight forward hard work are almost
| uniformly seeking to escape from their condition.
Even the substantial, thrifty Farmer, whose lie
is or might be among the happest, is apt to tram
his darling son for q profession or put ann n'o d
store He laudably wishes to put HIM forward
in the world, but he does not think that nan inc
time and expense bestowed IN making MN an
.reraco LAWYER or Doctor would suffice to make
him an ernincntly intelligent and scientfc FARMER
"a model and blessing to the whole County
WHY will not our thrifty Farmers think OF TINS
The world is suricicd with middlng Lawyers
and Doctors-thc gorge even of Iowa rises at the
,rosnect of a new batch of either of tolcrable
Ccrpvmen there is certainly no lack, as the
multitude without societies bears witness ana
vet here is the Oldest the most essential and the
nobest of employments, on which the luil paze
of Science has hardly yet poured, and which is
to. dav making more rapid strides and affords a
more promising field for intellectual power than
any other, comparatively Stunned and neglected.
OF GOOD thoroughly educated, at once scentihc
| and practical Farmers, there is no where super
abundance Every where there is need OF TINS
class to introduce new processes and improve old
ones, to naturalizc and bring to perfection the
plants, Grains, fruits, &c. we still import from
abroad when we might better produce them at
homo-to introduce proper rotation and DIVER
sification of crops-to prove and teach how to
produce profitably the most Grain to the acre
in short, to make Agriculture the pleasing, attrac-
tive, ennobling pursuit it was providentally de-
stoned to be. There is no broader field of use
fulness-no surer road to honorable cmlnence.-
The time will come when, of the men OF the last
generation, Arthur Young will be more widely
honored than Napoleon. But while the true
Farmer should be the most thoroughly educated
and well informed man in the Country, there are
many of our old Farmers, even, who will cheer
fully spend thousand dollars to qualify one son
for profession, yet grudge a hundred each to
educate the three or four less favored who arc to
be Farmers There are Farmers who cultivate
hundreds of acres and never look into a book on
Agriculture, though they would not countenancc
a Doctor or Clergyman who had studied no works
on Medicine or Theology. What world of mis-
takes and inconsistencies is displayed all around
us
But we rejoice to believe the world is mend
ing in this regard. There are Farmers yet who
persist in crowding their sons into the already
gluttcd Professions or into Trade, but the current
is turning We know that our best City people
are looking for places for their with Farmers
the only difficulty being to find fit places to IN
struct them in Agriculture they should be IN
structed. An old friend who has lived many
years in this City, and saved something consider
able by the way, has just purchased farm on
which to retire and educate his sons for good
Farmers He is in easy circumstances, and
deems this the best profession he can give them,
and he is right. There are hundreds silently pre-
pairing to go and do likewise.
who are vet seeking some opening for a livelihood,
Go forth into the fields Do not linger about
the Cities thinking that employment as Clerk or
something like il mast come at last, for the pros
pect is gloomy. There are, and though the dis
ease is abating, will long be, too many ysung msn
ambitious to wear kid gloves and chat across the
counter with the ladies. If there were to-day
employment for twenty thousand additional
Clerks in our City, there would in two months be
many more young men here in want OF Clerk
ships than at present. The supply Of embryo
! Merchants exceeds the demand frightluly, anc
will continue to do so. Te come here looking
for Clcrkship, is to enter into competition with
ten thousand to see which can starve longest
Even if you were sure of place at once, yor
would act unwisely IN taking 1t. Trade Is limit
ed and capricious, but the bountics OF Nature
arc steady and inexhaustbc.
There are thousands in all our Cities who ar
well employed and in good circumstances; W,
say, let these continue if they content, ant
feel certain that the world better for their dahl
doings There are other tens Of thousands wh
mast stay here, as things are having no mean
to 90 elsewhere no skill in any arts but those pc
caliar to City life, and very limited knowledge
these must stay, unless something should trans
pre- out of the common course OF events. Their
are other tens of thousands annually arrlvn
from Europe, who however valuable acquisition
to the country, must contribute to glut the maj
ket and depress the price of Labor of all kind
in our Citv-some of these must remain here Il
they can obtain means and knowledge to go else
where But for young men from our own happie