Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-02-06

sorts Of irregularly' shaped elds and lots!
Method, order, and taste would character
ize the arrangement and distribution Of the
fields, gardens. orchards meadows ami wood
lands of an Association. and everywhere
the eye would be greeted with yaiiel and
charming landscape.
''lf we compare, in imagination" says
Fourier, '.ihe cul ivation of the Domain or
an Association, overseen lie single farm,
with the same extent Of country Cut up in
to little farms, land subjected 10 the caprice
Of three hundred families, the PARALLEL
would be found most glaring. Here one
family makes meadow OF u slop:ng iece
Of land, which nature destined 10 the vine;
there another sows wheat whore grass
should grown third TO avoid buying gram,
clears declivity which the ra rs will strip
Of its soil the following year,whie fourth
and fifth m'sarpy and abuse the SOL 10
some other way. The three hundred FAM
Les lose their time and mon y in barricad
ing themselves against each other, and in
lawsuits about boundry lines and re ty
trespasses; they all avoid works of grner-
al utility, which might b. of advantage TO
Gctcs'ed neighbors, sand individual interest is
is everywhere brought into conflict with
public good"
Agriculture is in w-etched state gen
crally,from want of sce Mt fc know ledge a.
mong farmers, and the impossibili.y OF nine
ty-nine out of hundred availing them
selves of it in their isolated and helpless
condition, even when they possess II; but a
mong three hundred families united in an
association, every discovery and improve
ment, deemed desirable and valuable, cou'd
be obtained and applied.
Three hundred farming families, living
separately, labor under two striking disad-
vantages; sometimes their time hangs idly
on their hands and is wasted, and at other
times they have not sufficient help, within
themseives,to perform the work required.
Hence there is q great loss Of time among
farmers, and frequently also grea loss Of
crops, because they are not gathered JUS,
in season. If they lived together 10 As
ISOLATION, both these defects would at once
be obviated;they would have manufacture
ing occupations in which they could always
find employment, when not engaged in
agriculture, ond if united in the cultivation
Of a single domain, they could apply their
combined efforts and execute any labor,
requiring a large number Of hands, like that
Of harvesting or gathering fruit, which, if
attended to al the proper moment, makes an
immense difference in the value Of the crop.
There is and can be under the system OF
saperate families no judicidus prosecution
of Industry, adapted TO dificren, tastes and
cnpacilies-no combinaion Of agriculture
and manuractures-nop proper application
of the labor Of both sexes and all ages
no wise division Of labor between the same
no variety and choice of occupations
no aHractirc Industry. The whole system
Of labor is deranged by being prosecuted
by sperae lamiies;that is, by the isolated
household system; the time and aticn
ton Of women are absorbed in complicated
household duties, and children are left in
ideness for the want Of branches Of indus
try suited to their strength and capacities.
"Yet Nature has assigned to women and
children the cultivation Of great many
varieties Of fruit, flowers and vegetables;
the greater portion Of our ga rdens aud all
the smaller classes Of (ruit-trces and shrub
berry, should be allotted 10 women and chill
dren. The child, so far from devoting it.
self 10 useful Industry and to the culliya-
ton Of fruits and flowers enters the gardens
only TO eat the fruits which it has no, aided
in cutivating, or 10 pluck and destroy the
flowers"
As the labor Of women and children, in
the present system Of society. is not APP
piled to agriculture, man is obliged In
abandon those branches Of Industry
which are specially lo:tcd TO him by Ma
turc, such as works Of irrigation and care
of forests. He is dcbarre1 under the pre-
sent system from devotng himself to many
heavy and important branches of Industry.
because he is occupied with works which
belong properly to ,cOmen AID chi Ire =,
among others the care Of the smaller do
nestle animals, poultry, the gardens. &c.
&c.--cares from which he should be
relieved by those two classes. All true
and natural division Of labor is at present
completely destroyed by the idicness Of
and by the absorption Of the en-
tire time of women in complicated house,
hold occupations, four-ffths Of which would
be saved in Association. The whole bur-
then of production falls consequently upon
man alone, who thus overtasked, must neg
lect The most important branches OF indus
try, such as irrigat on and some other hea-
vier branches of Industry. He sights the
task of his own sex in order TO attend to
that of woman and children.
BY interesting Children at an early age
in Industry, and inducing them TO take
part in he lighter branches, such as the
care of f.uit, flowers, poultry, &C., which
can easily be done by proper organiza
ton or mode of prosecution, they will No,
only become producers, but will receive a
practical or Industrial education,
and will be initiated by natural and easy
process into all departments of industrial
and scientific knowledge. Children delight
in being employed, and their natural &C
tivity, if not rightly directed, is spent in
useless plays or mischief; it remains for
Association to avail itself Of this natural
instinct in children 10 be active, and Ia
apply it usefuIly and train them up so that
they shall be thoroughly educated, and
fully developed in mind and body.
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