Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-02-24
COMMUNICATED.
SPRING PRAIRIE AGRICULTURAL
CLUB.

| iSCSHuy ioitHeu diloiIS tne idtt1erS Oi Tue
town Of Spring Prairie. Although ithas beer
but a few weeks in exsiencc,t already mum
bers between thirty and forty members.
Measures have been taken by the Club to
furnish themselves with an ample library OF
standard agricultural books and periodicals,
and The character Of those who compose
the association, is pledge and guarantee
that its objects will be prosecuted with cncr.
gy and success. We hail this organization
as the harbingorof good to the agricultural
interests of the county and territory. We
trust its results will prove TO be the begin
ming of a better state Of things SO far as re-
CARDS the system Of culture that has been
pursued, thus far, among us in the territory
for it is the serious apprehension Ct many
expe rienced and practical observers, that
the exhaus.ing and slovenly practices Of TOO
many of our farmers, VII reduce, what is
enormously thought to be, the inexhausti-
bic fertility our virgin soil, 10 condition,
not unlike that which has been brought a
bout, under the same system, on the Gen
nessee and other wheat-growing lands OF
western NY. The farmers Of Spring Pral-
RE have begun their efforts at The right
point. They have attempted nothing be-
yond their means and resources. They
meet as a neighborhood, 10 compare the re-
suits ofindividual experience, and TO profit
by the success or failure oleach ones exper-
iments; to derive instruction by a mutual
interchange of views in reference to The
best modes of operation; to excite a spirit
of inquiry and investigation, which may lead
TO correction of prevailing errors of opinion
and practice, on the important subject ofag-
r;culture; and through their library,-by
which each one, at small expense, may
have access TO vast amount of reading
to enjoy all the light which science and re.
corded experience my shed upon the OBJ
iccts of their pursuit. In This last part;cu-
lar, the association is Of nestimabe value.
1t brings within reach ofihe man of small
means, the facilities of mental culture on
subjects most deeply interesting TO him;and
by his association with others, the uneduca-
ted man may have explained TO him, what
ever is difficult or obscure in the science
Of his calling; for it will generally be
found, that some one Of his associates can
explain the hard words Of Chemistry
Geology, and the kindred sciences that per-
tain TO agriculture. Farming is a question
of mind as well as muscles: science as well
as an art; and the farmer will never attain
| to the true dignity of his calling, or secure
his just and proper influence in the social
and political economy Of the country ill
these two things are united.
Associated action is the distinguishing
feature ofthe age in which we live. Under
lis impulses, every department of human
effort and enterprise is moving forward with
celebrity unknown to any former period o
the worlds history. Popular association
constitutes the grand lever by which the NOR
al movements which are going on around
us, are achieving their wonders of reform
and regeneration, ana by its aid the arts and
sciences have reached their present stage OF
almost perfection. But in no instance ha:
the woodworking power Of this magic
princip been more ST gnally displayed, thar
in its applications to agriculture and the
arts of husbandry. The formation Of asso
Citations for tho improvement of agriculture
mark the point of divergence from the an
cient and uncertain pathway of untutorec
experience, into the h;gh-road of a rational
INTEL gent, system of culture. BY thes,
associations, science has been brought IL
the aid of the farmer in his searchings int
the phenomena and processes of vegetable
life ard growth, and its light has revealed
10 him the wonderful agencies by which tina
life and growth are sustained and perfected
Let it be the object Of this association an
|, of all kindred associations, to assert and vim
dicate the claims Of agriculture TO the arten
, ton of their countrymen, no: merely as
manual occupation of the highest value il
the general economy, of our social system
bu, as a science embracing a wide rang
of investigation, and 10 be brought to pei
fiction by an accurate knowledge of facts
and through the introduction of improve
' methods in the application of the powers
p which it employs.
d twill be part of the objects of III
Spring Prairie Agricultural Club, TO er
courage the formation, at as early day q
possible, of an agricultural society for tb
county of WalwoF,h, and they have alFeld
;. taken measures 10 ascertain the views an
e secure the cooperation of farmers all
!. friends Of agriculture in different parts
the county, in this important object. W
think The time has come for such NOV
: meut, and We believe the farmers of Wa
worth vii! not be backward in promoting
1t scheme, whose results in older coun'ri
= -. 80 n ;.,r,.r, so poal a statement