Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-03-25

no other pursuit or business, productive O
an equal amount Of real pleasure, as practi-
cal farming and gardening. lie thinks IN
telleciual pursuits afford more real pleasure,
and would like TO know Sin what the secret
consists of finding any real substantial
pleasure while engaged 10 the monotonous
business Of holding the pillow from early IN
the morning to late in the evening" One
of the associate editors of the Farmer, aud
President Of the Vermont Agricultural So.
cietr leads the New Hampshire correspon-
dent into a knowledge of the secret, IN an
able aud excellent article Of three columns M
length. We should like to publish It entire;
but our limits, at present. will only admit oil
an extract. The man who writes, and
elves and breaihes" such sentiments as
follow, Is an honor to Vermont, and fit to
be its next Governor. Hope we don't IN
trude. nor tread on anybody's toes. Bot we
must not run our pillow into polticks, for
fear ofthe free-soiers and the sub-soilers 49,
Mr. Ilobrook, addressing himself directly
tohis correspondent, says. 80
However dull and mono,onous the
busners OF blowing may be to YOU, il is
not at all so to me Starting my team
a-feld ola bright springs morning, with
my pillow all bright and clean from lis
winter quarters, feel as honest pride
and pleasure at the thought Of my occu-
patton ms | ever do when engaging in
any employment. strike out my lands
with lurrow as straight as an air liae
After tins is accomplished, guage my
pillow to cut deep burrows, and as narrow
MS is possibly compatible with the depth.
and then take them of the land of uni
iormly exact depth and width never all
lowing crooked furrow to be seen I'M my
blowing. TO me 1t is very oxhlaraiiug
to see the burrows roll off my polished
mouldboard, aud lay beside each other
with as accurate finish as though they
had been pointed by carpenters tools,
and to think, as my eve surveys the smok-
ing soil thus prepared, how mother earth
always delights ia hounliully rcwarding
the careful husbandman, that She in
viies liberal, Intelligent and accurate
cultivation, byreturnng rs compensation
a greatly increased crop. say TO my
self that am one OF the number engaged
in an operation without winch man would
not have bread, civilization could not
advance or be sustained, aud which was
one Of the fundamental operations euh
contributing 10 elevate man from the bar
barous state, aud fix him la the abodcs of
civilization. ! remember that the pillow
has been regarded with sort OF sacred
ness 10y men in every age, that even
far back
." In apeiont timos, the sacred pl,w employed
Tho Kings, and awful aihers Of mau4lnd,n
and that now. it employ many Of earth's
choicest spirits. This occupation brings
me fine health, refreshing sumbers, and
while engaged in it, can think as &C
curately as under any other conditions
whatever. Indeed, il were called upon
TO prepare public address, an article for
the press, or 10 engage in any other in
tellectual exercise, could fix upon and
arrange my subject, aud bring to it quite
as much vigor of thought and shape it
into as logical an arrangement as under
any other circumstances.
My friend, YOU will find more or less
philosophy connected with the proper
performance of almost any of the meth
DDS of agriculture and that many sub
iects, requiring further scientific inquiry,
exist in even the commonest operations
of husbandry. Your soils need to be I'M
dersiood, thatyou may supply their wants
and correct their superuties. The va
rIous ingredients or properties Of your
manures must be known, together wuh
the theory of composing, and must be
applied properly, The properties that
go to make up your crop, must be
found out, so thai you may best adapt
the crops TO the soil, and If your sod
is deficient IN ingredients requisite TO the
raising of some desirable crop, they must
be supplied by proper manures aud cul-
tivallon. Fruits, Tor home use or sale,
must be produced, and world of scieu-
tlfic investigation may be well employed,
hlltAi Is 'ht AllNf' R'NA fihiih- wv illi VIC
character and habits of insects injurious
10 them, and the best means oil prevent
ing their depredaiions. The wet lands
must be properly drained, which requires
a combination of science with practice.
Irrigation produces wonderful effects,
may perhaps be within your reach, and
its theory and best management must be
found out. The philosophy Of breeding
domestic animals, . beautiful and inter
eslug study, generally poorly understood
and mlsenbly prac,iced IN our country,
must be investigated.
So might go on, enumerating a great
variety o. subjects, or entering mao den,l
with those | have glanced at. Bat these
now are sufficient Tor illustration, and
they show that an absolutely hmillcss
field of inquiry, involving the principles
OF several sciences, is opened TO Tie far.
mer IN the prosecu ion OF his daily busi-
ness. 1t is his high privilege, IA the
very act of earning his bread, TO come
into Intimate contact with the wonder
inl operations of nature. Ii he be a man