The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-11-30

and desert. and pushing the cattle to the
'ery verge of sIaryatlgn. Yet there stood
he farmers, gazing glOomily from day to
lay at the destruction # their cherished
lopes ola harvest and the utter desolalion
II the whole country, yet rot one asking Of
mother
"What shall we DO to arrest this sweep
NJ ravage? How shall We most readily,
,hcaply aud surely clear our lands OF these
eos e
l do not pretend to know what the proper
remedy was or is; but this Do know, that,
had been one OF these farmers. 'TQuld
have found remedy OF bankrupted myself
in the search. I should have first interro-
gated the best authorities on A Agriculture aud
Natural History, and in case of hudipg NJ
guidance there, should have sowed one
acre of my land bountifullys with Salt, the
next with rlaster; the next perhaps with
Niire; fourth with Potash; and so on using
in all cSses substances that | knewwould
would be paid for by future haryests, un-
less l had reason to believe something
else would be more efficient. Thus, before
one week had elapsed ! would have found
sorae caustic that grasshoppers could not a
bide; and having found it, ! would have
applied it until the last cQrmorant among
them had been lriyen into the woods or
turned over on his back. And this is the
spirit in which every such invasion should
be- me aud overcome. Had the farmers OF
any tow nship promptly met, when the raw
L.. and auraaH thof
one of tbem would try one possible antidote
and another, according as they happened
respectively to have the material at com
mand, and meet few evenings later tC
compare notes on the results of their sever
al experiments, they could Rot have failed
to discover an efficient remedy within the
first week. But they did nothing; anC
henco many of their farmsare desert, thei
Fall crJps next to no,hin5, and half theil
cattle must be sold or killed for want O.
food.
Our farmers generally think and WORK
better out of their own vocation than in it
A distant and towering evil arouses theil
hostility and evokes their energy mucf
more readily than one of less imposing
but more mischievous character which as
sails them in their homes. Let the word
90 forth, "An army OF invaders have land
edw and tens ofthousandS snatch INSTINCT
vely their muskets and take the Foad; bu
here are armies all around them who ar,
plundering them worse than any invader;
would, yet hardly attract their notice. The
Hessians who were hired to subjqgate ouI
fathers had no rest until the last of then
was killed. captured or hunted home, more
than seventy years ago; yet their attendant
parasite, the HeSsian Fly, has been plum
dering us ever since without resistance, and
is now as formidable and destructive as ev
er | canno: believe flies mo e difficult tc
conquer than men, if we would but fairly
set about it.
". And here let me 'retrace my stops
to illustrate a point in Industrial Economy
which | have already incidentally touched
but have not illustrated AS its Importance
deserves andas the prevailing misconcep'
tons render necessary. refer to r. Pro
portion IF Means to Ends, which the Artisan
must always bear in mind, but which tn,
Farmer seems too often to forget. No ar
tihcer presunes that the labor apd materta
required for fine table will suffice for 6
piano-forte; nor that a steam engine can b.
constructed as cbeaply as churn. But the
farmer, seeing trees and plants grow arounc
him with weed-lise facility and tenacity
often indoIently imagines that ANY tree will
grow so, and plants his rare and delicate
fruit-trees, il he plants such at all, as if the,
were oaks or lQcpsts. But Nature is mex
orable in her requirement that the labo
and care essential to the production of
choice fruit or plant shall be proportional
to the value of the product. You ma
grow Pine on yellow sand or Hickory o.
blue clry: bat if you want choice Pears 0
Peaches ou must devote much labor AM
expense to preparing and enrching tn
ground wherein your trees are to be Set
TOO many farmers, not needing this law, q
supposirg that Nature may somehow b
circumyent,d, obtain wort HESS fruit or non
at all, and SO abandon the culture in dis
gust and despair.
There is not now one grapevine or fruit
tree, except Of the coarsest and commoneS
kinds, where there ahouldb bs twenty, takins
one State with another and one ct nsequenc
of this is an enormous and perilous consump
lion ofhesh as food, to an extent unknowl
in other countries. We are nationally sur
surfeited with pork, and tainted with Scrof
ula, not because we are so fond of pork, bu
because for an important portion of eac
year, the majority Of our population can ge
little beside, "The foolishness of preach
ing" will never suffice to correct this abel
ration for men who work must eat, thoug
their food be not the best; but give us an a
bundance Of the choicest fruits and vegeta
bles, with farmers who know how to gro,
them and truly educated housewives. VIII
delight in preparing and serving them, an
We shall enjoy health, elasticity and longe,
ity to an extent now unknown. A flesh d
ct is the dearest, the least palatable and I'll
least wholesome, and all that is needed I
wean men from it is the presentation Of
better. To SECURE this, We need only far
mers who will feel just pride in having III
finest orchards and gardens-4who will sur
round, not merely their own dwellings bu
those Of tenants and helpers also, with choic
trees; and who will plant and keep plant
ing until good fruit shall bo so abundan
that it can be NJ longer an object to stea
it.
But detain you too long, though many
Suggestions crowd upon me which l wouf
gladly develop, did time permit. | woul
like 70 illustrate that inspiring theme, Til
HARAoYY OF INTERESTS between Farmer an,
MANUFACTURER, which renders each ncv
fnctnrt, or nknn n,tn hIi.hnI In