The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-24


experience has be good and vsusbe
Ia ,hs customs aud INSTRUCTIONS Of other countries, and
which could - adyan traaspsnted to own
The American mind IL Dq and eolscts we'll
original and inventive Our political Institutions are In
or sinal and pu,sy Amssica devised by the vdon q
our ancestors TO suit peculiar crcumsts there
sse many things undoubtedly whtsh we're suggested 70
them by TINS example OF hs ancent aad ,dorn repuo-
lies, veil BY the institutions OF fAtnersnd.
Oar national populat on itsls Is sc,cic for however
II II speak Of ourselves Anglo SAxons il
impossible to ignore the many other aud por els-
nents tnst enter the OF the great
Icsa family So, our sgr,,alture is eclectic and
farmers practical eclectic philosophers in
appropaung aad trHns p ntng here Whatever he sys
teens Of agriculture Of othsr couI tss and their nprovsd
breeds OF Domestic animals particularly offer worthy OF
adoption You. yourself Mr.. President have rendered
important services to the country this Inc and
England, where you were patrotcAliy employed in
making selections Of the finest ANIMALS Of country
first forming scqustntsncs which il ripsnsd mere
70 day in our own happy land under the beams Of
brethren of this and other States been long and
most ussfuly employed in snricning the COUNTRY with
the choicest results Of foreign breecog aad their Names
Identified with great national benefit arc fsmA Is
household words in the calesdAr of every American
farmer. shall 30 pArdonsd If in this connection
speak Of class Of publc servants who in the opinion
or many rather pe1ous mount rance pom the
State, ~ best wisey kept for but VINO from the
opportunities afforded by their public residence abroad
have somesimes had 1t their 20 yer to INTRODUCES new
and most vauSbs branches Of husbAndry from foreign
countries into their own It wa, Sir Richard Weston,
Engli.h Ambas ador tns low countries, who,
two centuries sgo, introduced from Flanders the
culture of that invalusbs plant, the red clover,
land. Franklin, fresh freu the field Of its mrA-
cuous effects, made plaster of Paris speak for
e to the increduly Of The Pennsy farmsrs by
t.scipg it's upon their grasses 10 p,wdsr which,
in few short month";, sprung into vegetable alpha
bet hat one might run and read Geaers Humphreys,
Minister Of the United Statss to Spain, the
nsncemsnt Of the present Century first made knowa
By large importation Of his the value of toe Aeno
eheep which has since bsen source OF 10 much riches
to this part OF tho Union; and your Casncsllor
LvDgstoa, Minister to Ffapce about the time OBJ
tanned from the French government and sent 20 tins
United States, specimens the famous Ramoouillet
flock that may b. considered the germ America Of
,hoe French Nerinoes which are nov attracting sach
genera attention. Having glanced ia rapid and
sensible very imperfect manner at 20 no OF tn srcum
stances our national situation and history and aso
oil tbs attributes OF the national genius and
ter that peculiarly suspcious 70 the progress of
agricultural Improvement in the Unitsd ststs allow
u cay few words subject Of great practical
to all who engaged ia the pun Of Agri-
cutureI mean its fair and legitimate returns in the
day, is not . mere psstims or amusement 1t is
branch Of the national industry on which large ma
means Of and Of bringing uo and .ducaas their
families Like every other b!anch Of the national
inausy therefore, it ought 60 yield an adequate return
for the labor and capital employed in it An opiaion
has somehow other strangely gained ground that the
sgroulturist ought to be content with much smaller
profits than those to DO derived 2oyments
because he leads Ia imagined esaer and loss lAbo
ious life aud his pursuit supposed to b. less liable to
hazards and vcissitudes. Whatsoever posca views may
be entertained of farmers life BY who have never
tiled Il. the farmer himself knows that there is no pur.
suit wen followed which more uutiriog industry
ard more ossseless vigilance aud none moss precarioas
In s results from the effect of the uncertainty
remarkable paper which have already alluded rpssk-
rg sxperimsntally ~ Q farmer - we'll from wide
survey Of human le says that at req aires ten times
Of labor of vigilance Of attention. Of skill and of
good fortune also to carry the business Of farmer
tam what belongs to any Other trade" famous
have consnded that kind Of labor that employed
In the cultivation of the earth properly deserves the
respects because other species Of Industry, and
above the expenses OF Continuing itself,
tributes any value that does in the shape Of rent
to the Of the national wealth Aoam Smith, the
great oracle Of modern economical science while denying
this doctrine Of the French economists yet maintains
that agriculture Is In its nature tns most productive Of
ell branches Of rational industry adding" to
his WORDS much greater value to the annual produce
and OF Its inhabitants, than way 10 which
capital be employed Without going far either
Adam Smith or the French economists ths agrsuturst
may at least claim equality with other pursuits in .
tendency to promote tbs national wealth. and fairly
prs measure Of remuneration for his labor and capt
ts TO be determined by the rules Of and
the same principles equity. whether this measure
has been yet fully attained In practice slider
matter of great doubt Still the standard sgsaturl
profit in some OF Europe. share bota akin and
ia, am p.rsusoed, much higher than Ia generally
Unsigned When that shall be made m,nfsst the Ame,i
10 his position win NOT trust bs content to rsst in auy
degree below it. Edmund Burke wrtng il 1895,
and in that representation to Mr.. Pitt, which
contains much for the instruction Of both the
agriculturist tho statesman says that farmer ia
England who cultivates twelve hundred cannot
p-oeeea with any degsee Of safety and effect with .
smaller capital than thousand pounds and he Cannot
In the ordinary OF culture make upon that great
capital Of ten Thousand pounds than twelve
dred year" This il profit OF twelve per Sir
John Sinclair, tweoty FIVE years afterwards, speaking
large Of the counties of England says
that the profits of farming srabis farms rarely
coed from ten to fifteen cont the capital invest
"A Oxuhs in adj n1 I.-sac
that few emplOyments more subjest to casualties
than farming or require more unremittng attention.
These profits too IL must b. boz in md the pro
dts Of the tenant farmer, after paying to his land
lord That the profits Of farming In EOgsnd have not
may safs assumed they are not less on the
Continent in all cases where like system Of liberal and
ia.e!lissn, husosIdry has bssn sssad, pursnsd sd
enced director Of the MODEL farm Of Grgnon in
the neghborhood Of Vera LES. lMoasisur BslA) in
formed q few months ago that the agricultural
profits Of that establishment fourteen per csns
IL Is the property Of joint stock company, and al
accounts regularly audited IT the close Of year.
this result have desired TO present these facts your
consider alton and to that Of agricultural brethren
generally, because am convinced that much mischief
has been done to the Of American agriculture by
the notion that has extensively prevailed Ia
regard TO the natural and just Of agricultural profit
and which has placed IT. by supposed ami inexora
bic Law OF the social economy much below the profits
two and half aud TIRES Der csnt The efsrts and tss
energies Of have In too ostsnco
bssn dwsred by the influence Of this widely propagassd
dogma We how little 'ounda1on it has In principle
expsrierce In agriculture, all other pursuits IN.
dusy and sk entitled TO their reward and perss-
variney exerted rarely fail to secure it. the Engush
make his per cent after paying rent to
his landlord. the American sgrcultust. who. In large
majority Of Ia hs Landlord and In saving gains
his rent should make yet more. Let him always keep
before him the highest standard profit, and in pro
portion to the elevation Of that standard will be
gree and success OF his agricultural improve
merits Happily thefs iving examples in our
country TO ,box that agriculture, here else where,
do IN ytS fatr AND aAa
those who engaged in it. Men be a.ls to rys
by their calling Whatever Isl aud ia this age of Tres
competition and active industry, business hat in
ought be long pursued. is bat poor and puerils
ambition TO be proprietor, unless can make his
properly avail for his support, and the sup port sduca
uon and coaatort OF his family. To such Of u.s. there
fore, M may not have been equally fortunas Ia shs
Of ~ rcalture, II Is great nsoIaton aud
coursRtment know that thvIe ,ss Ia ever
part Of our great and happy country, U proud !,
rag there such In my jate who by their indus