The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-11-10

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these IS benefcence-the evolution and
discipline of mans capacities through, the,
necessary counteraction and combat
Plants and domestic animals rightfullly
look to owner for efficient protection; and
and he who allows his sheep to be killed
by, wolves, his fowls to be carried off BY.
insects, is culpably faithless to his depen-,
dents and its duty. Yet how istlessly,
thhoo'ughtlessly, hopelessly, do we see far.
mers stand by while their crops are de-.
stroyed by worms, birds, or weeyil, with.
out seeming to know that they have
anything to do in the premises? No Tur-
kish fatalism is binder or banker than
theirs. 1t is hardly yet six weeks since
saw whole countries of my own State COW
cred and devastated by grasshoppers, who
stripped the dry uplands of every blade of
grass, almost every green leaf, cutting
the green oats from their stalks, the fruit
from the trees, devouring corn in the ear,
making the cleared desert, and pushing
the cattle to the very verge of starvation.
Yet there. stood the farmers, gazing
gloomily from day to day at the destruc-
ton of their cherished hopes of harvest
and the utter desolation of the whole
country, yet not one asking of another.
"What. shall we do to arrest this sweep
ing ravage? How shall we most read
lily, cheaply and surely clear our lands
OF these vermine' I do not pretend to
know what the proper remedy was or is;
but do know, that, had / been one Of
these farmers, I would have found a rem
edy or bankrupted myself in the search.
| should have first interrogated the best
authorities on Agriculture and Natural
History, and, in case of finding no guild
ance there, should have sowed one acre
of my land bountifully with Salt; the
next with plaster; the next perhaps with
Nitre; fourth with potash; and SO on,
using in all cases substances that knew
would be paid for by future harvests, un-
less l had reason to believe something else
would be more efficient. Thus; before
one week had elasped, I would have
found some caustic that grasshoppers
could not abide; and having found it, /
would have applied it, till the last cormor-
ant among them had been driven into the
woods or turned over on his back And this
is the spirit in which such invasion should
be met and and overcome. Had the far
mers of any township promptly met,
when the ravage first became serious and
agreed that one of them would try one
possible antidote and another, according
as they happened respectively to have the
material at command, and meet few
evenings later to compare notes On the re-
rults of their several experiments, they
could not hare failed to discover an eff
cient remedy within the first week. But
they did nothing; and hence many of
their farms are desert, their fall crops
next to nothing, and half there cattle must
be sold for want of food
Our farmers generally think and work
better out Of their own vocation than in
it. A distant and towering evil arouses
their hostility and evokes their energy
much more readily than one of less i'm
posing but more mischievous character
which assails them in their homes Let
the word go forth, can army of invaders
have landed p and tens of thousands
snatch instinctively their muskets and
take the road; but here are armies all a.
round them who are plundering them
who are plundering them worse than any
invader would, yet hardly attract their no.
!, tice. The Hessians who were hired to
to subjugate our fathers had no rest for
their feet until the last of them was killed
captured or hunted home, more than sew
enty years ago; yet their attendant para
site, the Hessian Fly, has been plunder-
ing us ever since without resistance, and
is now as formidable and destructive as
ever. I cannot believe flies more difficult
to conquer than men, il we would but
fairly set about it.
". And here let me retrace my steps
to illustrate point in Industrial Economy
which have already incidentally touched
but have not illustrated as it's importance
deserves and as the prevailing misconcep-
tions render necessary. | refer to The
Proportion of Means to Ends, which the
Artisan must always bear in mind but
which the Farmer seems too often to for
get. No artifcer presumes that the labor
and meterial required for fine table will
suffice for piano-forte; nor that a steam
engine can be constructed as cheaply as
churn. But the farmer, seeing trees and
plants, grow around him with weed-hke
facility and tenacity, often indolently i'm
agines that any tree will grow so, and
plants his rare and delicate fruit-trees, if
he plant such at all, as if they were oaks
and locusts But nature is inexorable IN
her requirement that the labor and care
essential to the production of a choice
fruit or plant shall be proportlonatelto the