The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-01-25
FARMING.


| Health, Vigor,and Virtue, is generally regard
ed with aversion. When those who boast
that they LIVELY Straightforward hard work are
almost uniformity seeking to escape from
their condition. Even the substantial, thrift
to Farmer, whose life is or might be among
the happiest, is aptto train his darling sou for a
profession or put him into store. He land-
ably wishes to put him forward in the world,
but he does not think that halfthe time and
expense bestowed in making him an aver
age Lawyer or Doctor would suffice to make
him an eminent intellinent and scientific
Farmer model and blessing to the whole
Country. Why will not our thrift Farmers
think of this? The world is surfeited with
middling Lawyers and Doctors-the gorge
even of Iowa rises at the prospect of a new
batch ofeither ;of tolerable Clergymenthere is
certainly no lack, as the multitude without
societies bears witness, and yet here is the
oldest, the most essential and noblest of en-
ployments, on which the full blaze of science
has hardly yet poured, and which is to-day
making more rapid strides, and affords a
more promising field of Intellectual power
than any other, comparatively Stunned and
neglected. Ofgood, thoroughly educated,
at once scientific and practical Farmers,
there is no where super-abundance. Eve
| ry where there is need of this class, to intro
duce new processes and improve cid ones,
10 naturalize and bring perfection the plants,
grains, fruits, SLc.we stillimport from abroard
when we might. better produce them at
home-to Introduce proper rotation and
Investigation of cropS--to prove and teach
how TO produce profitable the most grain TO
the acre--;n short to make agriculture the
pleasing, attractive, ennobling pursuit il was
providentially designed to be. There is no
broader field of usefulness--no surer road to
honorable eminence, The time will come
when, of the men of the last generation, Ar
thur Young will be more widely honored than
Napoleon. But while the true Farmer
should be the most thoroughly educated and
well informed men in the country, there are
many of our old Farmers, even, who will
Echeerfully spend thousand dollars TO quail
fy one son for profession, yet grudge
hundred each to educate the three or four
less favored who are be farmers. There are
Farmers who cultivate hundreds of acres
and never look into book on Agriculture,
though they would not countenance a Doc
tor or Clergyman who had studied no works
on Medicine or Theology. What world of
mistakes and inconsistencies is displayed all
around Us.
There are thousands in all cur Cites who
are well Employed and in good circumstances;
we say, let those continue if they are con-
tent, and feel certain that the world is bet
ter for their daily doings. There are other
/ tens ofthousands who MUST stay here, as
things are; having no means to 60 elsewhere
mo skill in any arts but those peculiar TO City
life, and a very limited knowledge; these
must stay, unless something should transpire
iout of the common course of events. There
are other tens ofthousands annually arriving
: from Europe, who, however acquisitions to
the country, must contribute to glut the mar
ket and depress the price of labor of all kinds
in our City--some of these must remain here
i till they can obtain means to go elsewhere.
But for young men from our own happier
Agricultural districts to crowd into the great
Cities or Ato villages, IN search of clerk
ships and the like, is madness--inhumanlty
to the destitute--moral suicide While nine
tenths of our States are waste wilderness
and all our marts of Trade overflow with ca
) ger seekers for employment, let all escape
from Cities who can, and all who have op,
] portunities to labor and live in the country
! resolve to stay there.