True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1847-08-18
Happy The man whom bouHteons gouSasiew
With MS own hands paIernal grounds to plow."
THE FARMERS LIFE.


country readers with the following excel
lent remarks from the New York "Farmer
and Mechanic" on the Dignity and
Pleasures of Agriculture"
There is moral dignity in the pursuit
ofagricuItnre. True, it is toilsome; but
what gainfuI pursuit is not? There are
few merchants or professional men who
would not at times willingly exchange
their burdens, their cares or anXietisS, for
following the plough or other labor con-
nected with farming. The young man
who fancies there is so much of leisure
and aristocracy in trade and the profess
Sions, and so much drudgery in farming,
knows less of human life, than he will be
likely to learn if he lives TO middle age
But, while the laboring people usually at
tain greater longevity than men oflesure,
their exercise may be considered as con.
ductive TO health, and hence 10 happiness.
In labor ITSELF there is nothing degrading
to the best feelings of our nature. 1t is
only a vitiated artificial public sentiment,
that can induce painful sensibility in view
of the necessity for industry, which the
wants ofile impose.
1t is not the objects thrown around the
farmer, the woods and streams, and
fields anayed in green, that make all the
charms of his life, for, while he subdueS
the soil and fits it for his purpose and scat
tiers the seed on the burrows, the progress of
vegetation and the ample harvest are in
his mind, as the reflection at night that
the day has been devoted to usefulness,
prepares him for peaceful rest. Then
there is a practical independence enjoyed
in the feelings of the farmer, when he
gathers the golden harvest, and partakeS
of the fruit of his labor
"He eats bis own lamb, hi. own chickens
and ham,
He shears his own fleece, and he wears it."
Agriculture has in all ages been esteem
ed the true associate Of nobility. Virgil |
wrote its praise and the greatest statesman
of the Roman empire made the following
of the plough an indication of his con-
scious dignity and an example of his
most sterling virtue Later, during the I
middle ages, the possession of land was
necessary appendage ofnobllity. George
Washington was farmer, aud all the ex-
Presidents of the United States, with per-
hapS single exception, save found the
honor oftheir retirement in farmiDg estates
and their cultivation.
To protect Grain from RatS.-An in
divdna of much practical experience,
states that green elder deposited in and
about the mows of hay and grain, will
prove an effectual preventative against
he depredations OF mice and rats. These
Inimals are frequently very destructive in
heir ravages; and if a remedy SO smDl g
md eaSV of attainment is etticaclons, II
deserves 10 be known and remembered by
ii. We have long known that the leaves
If the common mullen will drive rats
rom their hauuts. There is something
in the order Of this plant that is Disgusting
10 their ratships, as was the leek to the
ansient Pistol they cannot "abide It,"
IMPERIAL.-From a celebrated house.
wife who treated us TO delightful summer |
drink, we obtained the following recipe for
the pages of the Planter:
Take two gallons ofwater, two ounces
Of bruised ginger, and two lemons boil
them together when lukewarm pour the
whole on pound and half of loaf sugar,
and two ounces Of cream Of tartar add
four table spoonfuIs of yeast, and let them
work together for six houB; then strain
the liquor and bottle it off in small stone
bottles. In will be ready for use in a few
hours.-S. Planter.
The Boston Post informs us that in
Ashfeld, Mass, a farmer set a couple of
gate posts, both ofwhich were taken from
the butt of chestnut tree, which was per-
fectly sound Que Of them was set with
the top end down. At the expiration of
twelve years, both were taken up, when he
found that Of the one inverted, only the
sappy part was decayed, willie the other
had nearly roiied Off
IMPORTANT DOcUMENT.-lt is known
TO a few persons, says the Philadelphia
Saturday Courier, that five days before
Gen. Jackson, closed his earthly career
he signed document which he had care
fully written during his retirement at the
Hermitage, in which is given his opinion
Of the military character Of all the generals
who served or commanded in Florida
during the seven years war with the Sem
inoles, which must include Generals
ScOff IessyD. TaUlOT. Worth. Gains and