Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-01-01
A FARMERS LIFE.

ness oil lis views no less than by the per
spicuity with which they are advanced
sincerely wish that we could afford room
consistently with our engagements, for ,h'
whole of this sterling production but be
ang unable 10 do so, we present TO our read
ers an extract from it, devoted To a conside
ration Of the farmers calling. II is as fol
lows:
+'The best faculties of men must be de-
voted 10 The farmers pursuits; The best in
,ellect must be engaged in it; and the far
mer's life must be a field wide and altrac-
live enough for the engrossmen, and devel-
opment of every human faculty, or error, oil
ignorance, or thrifllessness, will not be ex-
posed, and the calling will no, secure the
elevated position j. deserves. Happily a
rapid change is perceptible. The relative
position of profes mercantile and farm
ing pursuits are changing day by day. The
first are no longer sough, with so much a.
vidiiy, the last no longer Stunned. wise
man should never encourage his children to
assume the duties, vexa1ions and hazards
of precarious pursuits, no matter how daz-
cling the prospect, how brilliant the prize.
There is a higher objec, than wealth to be
gained sound sleep and sound heallh-a
higher object than personal distinctions
composed conscience. In times past there
seems to have been kind Of infatuation a.
mong the farming community in regard to
evasion of their honorable calling. Thirty
years ago father was prone To act with
his children as though he himself followed
q degraded calling. He seemed TO deem
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to respeclabiity or social and official DIS
.inction. The Websters, the WrghIs, and
the Flllmores, were not retained 10 ennoble
their own, but crowded off to illustrate and
adorn some other profession. 1t has some
wha, mended Of late. The public mind has
become more sound. II bids fair TO be-
come perfectly sound. 1t certainly will, if
men will speak, and hear the truth, and &C,
upon It's precep,s. The world never will re-
gard the farmers calling as the most honor
able ill il is so cherished by himself. In pub
lie estimation pursuit is appreciated at the
value placed upon it by those who follow
il. Turn back, then, the tide Of public SEN
1iment among the agricultural people. The
sturdy sense Of many sturdy farmer pierces
the gauze decisions thrown around The fan
ciful and frivolous life of the townsman.-
In the expression Of his sound judgment,
he ye, practically may have sought all his
life 10 make bis children the very butterflies
he detests. if he would have his occupa-
ton take rank as the most respected and
most dignifed among men, he must not &C,
as though he regarded it as dull and stu
pid exercise Of human powers. know no.
so small farm, so limited garden, that
may not engross all mans faculties and
consume all his leisure. The time may be
distant when each farmer may be geolo-
gisi, naturalist, chemist, but the time has
already arrived when the application OF
science to agriculture is producing peace
full, certain, and gigantic revolution, elevat-
ing the calling, multiplying lis results, IN
civilization Of the race.
"a farmer should not consider it presump-
sion, but duty, to gladden. his home with
all true and genial and inlrinsically vualua-
BILE comforts, that shed glow and atsrac-
tiveness around the private home of the
citizen. He can make it more inviting
There are few comforts and appliances a
bout The home Of a townsman which coun-
tryman cannot enjoy. There ale d thou
sand pleasures around country residence
which all the capital of a city cannot buy.
A farmer surveys from his window with un-
alleged delight the field now groaning by
superior cultivation, under twice the crop
of previous years. While he gains it the
world gains ii, /. is so much added 10 pro-
duclion. But multiplied and dubious are
the ways in which townsman makes his
gains. Sometimes Ills the pound of flesh.
Sometimes tits ex,orlion. Sometimes a
double value is given 10 the raw material.
but oftener his gain is loss to another. To
say the least. the townsman is sometimes
exposed to the inevitable necessities Of ex-
pediency and dishonor. From such neces-
-sities the farmer can, if he will, always be
free.
HsGod made the country, man made the
city, just so superior as Gods works are
to mans works just so far superior are the
studies of the country 10 the studies of the
town. Ii you look upon the rich and gor-
geous Development of nature from spring
10 fall, from the tiny germ 10 the abundant
crop, with no more delight than on piles Of
stone and bricks and mortar, then our life
anywhere will be desullory hard and dull.
When he gazed upon the miracle Of his own
frame, in awe and admiration, David ex-
claimed: j am fear(ully made Yet each
plant and spire of grass, each tree and fruit,
each creature, every form of vegetable and
animal life, is growing and living miracle:
no less wonderful than the frame of man
If he studies them all as living illustration:
of scientific truths and he delights al eaci
new discovery Of the capacity and proper
ties ofaplsnL ef an animal, and each new
might into laws which regulate its propa
CATION and perfect growth, then indeed vii
farmer become philosopher and mar