Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-10-09
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER g., 1851.
AgricuItu,al Societies.

Agricultural Societies.
We are graied witness the landable spirit exhibit
ed by our farmers in forming Agricultural societies
The Legislature has manifested liberal spirit towards
these associations and trust the day near at hand
when every county win have its society, and that we
shall annually have at the Capital of State, great
exhibition of agricultural products and Mechanical skill
The cultivation of the soil is the corner stone of
tona prosperity Its history coeval with the existence
of man. Adam was not placed in the garden, TO grow
and vegetate like plant but to prune and cultivate it.
One of his sons was cutivator of tie soil and the 9TH
err shepherd hat looked after the focks and herds
they grazed over the new world Noah after the land
ing of his ark planted vineyards and got high the
juice Of the grape. The wise laws Of Moses made am
pie provision for the division of lands the protection Of
aocks and the harvesting cleaning of the fields The
land of promise was not a land of brick walls rocky
pavements but land flowing with milk and honey, corn
and wine When the prophet Elijah threw his mantle
Elisha he found him blowing in the field with twelve
yoke of oxen Christ drew many of his illustrations
from the alow ground tie harvest field and the tresh
ing floor
Greece in the days Of her glory worshiped at the
shrine of Ceres and wherever the proud Roman in the
day of his power pitched his he poughed the field
No nation ever became great without agriculture. Ii
feeds commerce. and gives life and energy to all subor
dnate employments When the science of agriculture
droops, national prosperity and individual wealth fade
away. Contrast the condition of New England with
Mexico Skill and in the former makes the cold
and sterile lands with the choicest fruits In the
latter the miserable ignorant and degraded peon poughs
with forked stick of wood in the rich Valleys surround
ed by mountains Of iron.
In part of the habitable globe, there great
inducements or the careful and scientific cultivation Of
the soil in this great Western valley watered by the
tributaries Of the mighty Mississippi.
The bounteous gver of every good and perfect gift,
has before boundess prousion the necessary ell
ements for high state of cultivation and happiness.
But to reap, must sow, and to gather fruit must
toll and labor. Man formed for that purpose. He
struggle with the elements around him. the hgh
attributes of his nature never be exhibited. The
farmer here is the free indeed He eats not the
bread of idleness of fraud His gains the boun-
teous production of his mother earth, and wrune
from his fellow-men by device strategem. Around
his re-side his joys heightened, and his
and tolls alleviated by the Christening influence of "ie
children and friends" His reposc sweet and his bed
softer than the downy couch of eastern Prince.
Nothing indicates in greater degree our high state
of prosperity nation than the present agricultural
success of the country. few years ago a commercial
mania swept the land injecting all classes with
poisonous influence Tho productive industry of the
country abandoned, and the regions of the Baltic
furnished large cargoes Of wheat The Injunction o
the Almighty that should his bread by the sweat
of his brow violated and the wages of this terrible
sn fell u.s. with crushing influence But the storm
has passed. and the bow of promise spans the Heavens
and the wreck Of the past the beacon to for the
future.
Commercial men have their associations and Mechan
ested in associations for mutual benefit than farmers
Their interests identical, yet their location farms
the country prevents that mutual everyday
enjoyed by Merchants and Mechanics who live in towns
and cities. The annual fairs, whether County or State
will to bring together the representatives of the
agricultural interests when they consult for the com
mon good.
The premiums awarded for the best specimens of stock
Of agricultural implements the products Of the farms
the garden and the orchard great incentives to thai
emulation which makes people, superior to any
on earth.
1t is needless for us, in conclusions to say we hal
with JOY this and bright which dawns upon oul
most cherished interest 1t is that interest which ha.
built up the places Of Indiana and made our land
the home of happy contentcd and frugal people TIC
our soil and its successful cultivation must we look 70,
our future happiness and the high destiny of our young
and rising State and he who encourages and fosters the
one, contributes to the success of the other.