The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-11-10
TO Our Farmers .-Read More !.

Here is -an~extract from the speech
that we want to impress, particularly on
the minds of the Farmers of Wyandot
county, as we have SO many of this class,
that take no paper. Hear what Mr. G..
says of those who can't afford to take pa
pers! The idea is ridiculous, for every
man spends foolishly for things that does
him no good, ten fold more money than
a half dozen papers will cost But read
the extract:
Let me linger still on this topic of book
farming, and pile illustration on illustra-
ton of its true character and manifold ad-
vantages. You may tell me that this is
needless, but know better; since know
there are tens of thousands of farmers in
every quarter--nay, right here in Indiana
some of them, doubt not, now before
me-who take no Agricultural paper
nay, no paper at all!--because they think
they can't afford ah--that it has no other
than speculative or fancy value for their
use-that they would be the poorer for ta-
King it! Now I maintain that no farmer
or artisan that can read can really afford
to do without at least three weekly news
papers--one to bring him the general
news, politics and social movements of his
time; anotherato teach him whatever of
discovery, invention or Improvement may
from time to time be made in his own pur-
suits or calling; and the third to keep him
H. &c hot Of
pre in his own locality or county. He
may be so very poor and inefficient that he
is justified in obtaining two of these by
exchanges with his equally luckless neigh
bors; but these three he should at least
read every week, becauseh he cannot afford
to be without the intelligence they bring
him. And, while there are thousands who
are bringing up sons for farmers and
daughters for housewives without taking
periodical or even owning a book that
treats of farming or Housewifery, it lis ab-
surd to say that this stupid prejudice
against book farming has been already
sufficiently dealt with since it is this day
so potent and mischievous.'
Again, you will hear men say, they
have no time to read These same men
that have no time to read, spend more
time idely each week than would be ne
cessary to read a dozen papers. These
are facts that every day developes them
selves to the rejecting mind. Then, we
say, no more of your frivilous excuses
Take the paper and read it, and you will
be that much wiser every week. Greely
says:
But let us pause at that word Industry
"By Industry we thrive" is an old saw,
which is very well in its place; but the
truth contained in proverbs is so CURLY ex-
pressed that it often misleads more than il
directs. Industry is indeed essential tc
thrift, and farmers, like other men, often
need to be reminded of it. When Inotie
one who is overwhelmed with business, u
which calls him away from home two OF
three days in each week, and keeps him
hanging about the tavern or store while
his boys are at play and his potatoes cry
+ ing for the hoe, | know whittier that far.
mer is tending, and can guess about how
long he will have any land to mismanage
And think that, in the average, farmers
waste more hours than machines They
have more idle time-not necessarily, bu
quite commonly so regarded-througf
bad weather, severe cold, too much wet
&c. than falls to the lot of almost any 9th
er class; and it is very easy to allure many
of them away to shoot at other mems tur
kies when they should be growing food fol
their own But while many waste pre-
cious hours, quite as much through heed
lessness and want of system as Incidence
know another class who slave themselve.
out of comfort and out of thought by in.
cessant, excessive drugery, who are Sc
absorbed in obtaining the means of living
that they never find time to live--wht
drive through the day so that their bone.
and their minds are foggy at night; ane
are so overworked through the week tha
they can neither worship God nor enjoy
the society of their families on the Sab
bath. These men will often tell you they
have no time to read, which is just as "a
tional as for the captain of steamship t.
plead want of time to consult his com
pass and chart OF keep reckoning of hi
ships progress. No time to read! dt
they not find time to plant and SOW, t.
reap and NOW, and even to eat and sleep
If they do, then they may find time, i
they will, to learn how to apply their la
Dor to the best advantage as well as tt
qualify themselves by rest and refresh
ment for working at all. | venture tht
assertion that there are twenty thousant
farmers in Indiana who would have beer
Weather as we'll as more useful, more &c
spected and happier men this day, if the,
had abstracted ten hours per week from
labor during all their adult life, and de
voted those hours to reading and thought
in part with view to improvementin thei
own vocation, but in part also looking tt
higher and nobler ends than even this
Some men waste the better part of thei
lives in dissipation and idleness; but thi
does not excuse in others the waste of tim
equally precious in mere animal effort t
heap up goods and comforts which W
must leave behind SO soon and forever
Telegraph to Bucyrus.
The citizens of Bucyrus are now exult
ing over their lightning connection witt
the ''world and the rest of mankind.''-
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