The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-02

the Judgment have formed Of mIsdirected
efforts in this regard, we have all much 70
learn and greatly to improve our systems Of
cultivation, before we ascertain where our
true interests are.
The selection ofthe proper implements OF
husbandry, requires the Farmers careful and
considerate attention. Poor implements do
bad work in the best of hands. On some
parts of the continent Of Europe, the same
description Of farming Implements are now
used, that were used ceDturies since-either
because the people there know notof the
existence Of any TINT are better, or, for the
want Of mesns to procure better,
But our farmers are very generally
rich, and the inventive genius OF our coun-
trymen is proverbial; and there is no one
subject upon which that genius has acted
with more efficiency. than in the improve
ment of the various implements Of husban-
dry. In the spring and summer of 1851,
when the inventions Of the world were gath
cred together at the Worlds Fair in the
city of London, the first premium was award
ed to an American Reaper.
There Is no excuse for a farmer in Ohio
laboring with a poor implement. The in
ventions to be mel with at every turn are so
numerous, that he may be p~erplexed IN
determining which is best. He has but to
exercise his sound discretion upon this as up
on all other subjects pertaining to bis calling
and ali will be we'll.
The course Of economical lIusbuDdry com
pels the Farmer TO keep and to raise stock to
a greater or less extent. Horses, Cattle,
Hogs, Sheep and other Domestic Animals
are MS indispensable as the Land he cult
Yates. The different qualities of each kind
of stock are so various, thnt'wc can hardly
recognize the extremes pertaining to any one
class as belonging TO the same speciesE
consequently we have the widest range for
the selection Of our domestic animals, and
much of the profit arising from the posses
sion and guilty alton of Lands, depends upon
these selections being properly made. Is
is not a matter Of surprise as well as regret,
that at this late day, there is to be found so
few improved Durham Cattle in the differ
ent paris of our county! Especially when
il is so easily demonstrated, that every Farm
err NAV by the use Of such animals, double
the value of every animal that he %raises,
without increasing the quantity OF food con-
suIned!
Every days experience and observation
satisfies me that no Farmer can afford to
keep the inferior qualities OF stock OF any
kind. 1t is a consuming moth upon his la
Dor and the products Of his Farm--often
but little better or more valuable at the end
than at the commencement OF the year
There is no country where the Lands are
more easily cultivated than ours; nor is
there any country, taking all the varieties OF
crops together, whose products arc more
abundant than ours; yet regard our Grass,
our Hay, our Grain and all our other means
of keeping and growing stock, as too valu-
able and as costing too much labor to Justl-
ty us in permitting them to be consumed by
inferior animals. 1t would delight me to see
Fairfield one of the foremost counties in the
State, in the improvementof all her stock
and her Farmers vieing with each other for
the mastery in this race of Improvement.
would therefore recommend all those
who doubt the Propriety of an effort to I'm
prove their stock, and presume there are
many such, to seek information on this i'm
/ %portant subject, from those who are better
informed and have a more extended eXpe-
rience than 7 can cllim--Ift am myself
deceived On this subject. ] by no means wish
to be the instrument Of decciving others.
I will pass from the consideration of these
prartica topics pertaining to a profession in
) which | aspire only to the position OF an
apprentice, and therefore ought, especially
white surrounded by so many experienced
and skiIlinl master workmen. to promuigate
my views and opinions sparing'y.
THE interest that has been manifested in
p, this first Fair of our county, in which Farm
ers, Tradesmcn, Merchants and Professions
men, all, have united, must be as gratifying
to the officers of the Society, who have beef
specially charged with all the arrangements
for our exhibition, as it is suspicious to iht
t cause we desire to promote. From all parts
of the county, there has been gathered to-
gether, as i FLY magic, ofthe various growth'
and products of the industry and skill ofoul
5 people, whatever was rare or excellent "
$ it's kind. These productions more numerous
in quantity and far better in quality than any
, one had anticipated, have been the source
9 of plea sure and delightto the thousands wit
2 have visited these grounds. During the ex
hibition, we have seen more of ourselves
and of the many articles of fine quality tina
r we possess, than we ever saw before. Ou
platform is co-extensive with the boundarie
!, of the county, from which none of any ag
or sex are excluded, either as visitors or com
e p%etitors.
Here, all meet to advance comrnon cause
e in which all have a common nterest,--he
no political or religious sentiments enter
tanned by any one, can be brought into con
s hict with the discordant views or opinion
o entertained by others.
a 1t is for you, for the people OF the count
ut large, now to determine whether good re
d suits are likely to flow from this exhibition
whether industry will be stimulated ,ambitio
aroused and emulation increased; whethe
e our labor, skill and expenditures will in #
C ture be better directed and thereby rendere
il more productive and available. Hereatte
i we can make each successive Fair better an
j more interesting than the one which precet
,r ed it. The time will often be referred tt
h during the year, by the old as well as by tn
Young, as an approaching holiday that wi
come laden with instruction as well as plei
r sure.
g Let Us then regard the little Fire that ha
e been here kindled upon the alter OF improve
&c ment,as aVestal Fire, always to be kept burr
= ing--and let it be increased from year
I'd year, as the appropriate period rolls ronn.
u Tor holding our annual Fair, until its lig'
~ shall illumina ate, not only our own, but a
I'd our surrounding counties.
es Fello,c- CitisenS:-The printed notices
lie the order of proceedings ,promisedthe celv'
nv of a short address. 1t was f%oreseen tn
10, time would not serve us for the delivery oil
IT, lengthy one. Ihave attempted to redee
IT. the promise in the spirit IN which it vi
,.rander tho stan d TO IL