New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-04


think il highly desirable that they should read
more and work less, taking book IN the chimney
corner rather then going ont to work when the m
euences of climate, weather, Sc. are most baleiul
and iorbiddlng.
D There cau be no cravcr mistake than 10 sup
pose scientific culture cut Of place and poor Farm
mo allowable ia a new country, or that treatise
.n Farming must be unfit tor MS country because
written In Germany or Great Britain. You might
AS well fancy that the West and the East needed
diverse Medical Science or Doctrinal Theology. OF
course men Of sense everywhere consider the d.
yersities Of climate. soil, circumstances aud make
allowance for them; but the Science OF Ag1cul-
turc is the same n Michigan and Mid-Lothian-in
Wales and iu Iowa. No man need be AFRAID oil
mixing too much Of his own common sense and eX
per.sSce with his Science, nor need he fancy that
IL former viii supersede the latter. He needs
them ALL We protest against wearing ont and
iolpottrishing any more soil under the mistaken
notion that it is better - run over much ground
than to cultivate little thoroughly, even though
land cost nothing at all. Nor will we admit low
prices as valid excuse for exhausted fields and
scanty crops.
3. The Van Rensselaer, Wadsworth, &c whose
Portraits were given in the Library were so dis
tinguished because they iudiciously gave time,
talent and money % the Improvement Of Agrcul-
ture generally. They were rich, and did not need
10 labor with their hands; we do not know that
the usefulness Of what they did IS diminished by
that circumstance. When Ox-Goad shall evince
devotion TO Agricultural improvement as en-
ichtened, sefsacrifcng and benefcent as theirs,
we know some people who would like to see his
portrait. As yet, they are in no hurry about 1t.
There may be some farmers so poor that they
cannot afford a periodical so costly as the Ii
brary was but none who eaH afford to use Tea,
Coffee, Tobacco Liquors sc are OF this class Nor
do we believe there is any farmer with sons grow
ing up about him who cannot better afford to pay
s. fort g00d Agricultural work than TO do without
one. The value of such a work is by no means
confined to It's direct inculcations we prize even
higher than these the direction given TO the readers
aspirations the impulse to their inquiries and re-
hections o it is sad, it is sickening, to remark
how few farmers sons really love the vocation Of
their fathers, delight in following and glory
in the hope Of improving and adjoining it.
Seeing little of farming life but its drudgery
and its unintelectuality, nearly every one who
has a soul above breaking colts and skinning
woodchucks is of to the village or the city at
the very first chance-they all jump at a chance
to measure tape at FIVE dollars per month, and
lodge three deep in seven-by-nine garnet,
or to cruelty Blackstone atrcsh in any low petit
iogcers den in any corner of the wide world. How
many OF them do You suppose are now applying,
waiting longing, coaxing, soliciting Tor some
chance-they hardly care what-to break away
from the dull, dealess, monotonous drudgery Of
the patcrnal home in the assured conviction that
a farmers life and thorough mental cultivation are
incompatible This is the vital error we would
demolish by disseminating the truth that in no
vocation is scientific knowledge and mental eleva
ton more desirable or more useful than in that OF
the farmer It is not necessary that each farmer
should take such a work for himself one for a
neighborhood would answer and verify be
lieve one copy regularly taken IN each school dis
trct throughout the Union would immensely
CELEBRATE the Moral and Mental advancement and
increase the Contentment and Social well-beine
as well as enhance the fertility and the annual
Product of the Country. OF course, Ox-Goads
view may he a great deal more enlightened and
comprehensive than ours but he certainly has no
reason to sneer at our impartality We did not
count on making more by the Library when we
stated it but we did expect to do good, and we
think we have accomplished it. If not the fact
that we have spent some thousands, hardly
earned la the attempt should shield us, If not from
the scorpion lash of his censure at least from the
merciless severity of his wit. Ed Tribune.
MNVE.-At the late State Liberty Convention,
at Waterville. Me. SAMUEL FESSESDEN of Port
land was nominated as candidate for Governor
and Cen JAS. APPLETON OF Portland and DRUM
MoND FARNswoRTH of Norrideewock, were nomi
mated for Electors at large for President and Vice
President
THE KENrUcKY SENATOR - The Frankfort
Commonwealth states that TX Governor METCALFT
has accepted his appointment as L. ;. Senator
and will Immediately set out for Washington.
~ The Nec Era OF Industry is our creditor
for the following truthful notice of the best original