Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1853-04-15

We extract the following paragraphs from al
address OF Col. HARRIS, of the Ohio Cultivator
delivered in September last before the Medini
County Agricultural Society:
We have come together to strengthen th
ties of peace and good will, and amid all III,
chichanery and time-seving around US, ther,
is much of genuine truth and Improvements
Theories after theories have been invented, ex
panded, and finally exploded, with all theil
wealth of promise clustering around them
Patent guano and its kindred inventions, will
do well enough to amuse fancy farmers with
but after all, we are coming back to the belief
which we have never far departed from, that
Nature is not so (astidious in these latter days,
but that generous application of organic ma
nure, such as every farmer can command, Joined
to thorough tllage, under direction of good
common sense, is the best preparation for a
CROP Particular soils may be originally desti-
tute of some mineral element, essential to the
production of particular crops, or soils by mis-
management may be made thus destitute but
the results of the best chemical analyses for
the last few years, are fast tending the opinion
OF intelligent men to the conclusion, that much
less is to be gained by this process than has
been generally supposed and especially in our
rich and virgin soils. heresut of Prof Wells
analyses of -ths soils of the Scioto, which you
will find in the last Annual Report Of thesQhio
State Board of Agriculture, are in support Of
this assertion. The best kind of scientific farm
ing that | know of, is good, common sense, sys-
tematlc farming-a judicious system of crop
ping, and just return to the soil, for the ele-
ments of fertility, which you have taken from
1T. Thus a new farm will not be worn down to
a wreck of skin and bone, but like sensible
manhood, which may be protracted as long as
a reasonable tillage is kept up. aa
care not how much of science is applied to
agriculture, SO long as it is kept under the do
mlnl6n of common sense. We don't want to
raise up race Of ,automaton farmers, even to
carry out the speculations Of the wisest of men,
but we do want race of intelligent farmers
intelligent not only in the science of Agricul-
ture, but in the science of Life, for after all,
Labor and all its appurtenances are subservi-
ent to the full development and enfranchse-
ment of the soul and that life is perverted
and lost which fails to accomplish this great
work. Our material bodies are the ministers
of the soul, and upon their full and harmoni-
GUS development depends much of our bappi-
ness in this life. Whatever we have gained in
mental cultivation, over the ancents, we are
far behind them in physical development The
painest laws of life are little understood or
wickedly violated 1t has often been said that
the body, by its fralty and sensuality, tempts
the soul to sin, but we deny the truth of such
a charge; If the soul is noble the body will be
noble too, inasmuch as the soul can control its
volitons. A body pampered by indulgence and
sloth, has been degraded by groveling soul.
If we would not exhibit to the world, the gross
ness of a sensual soul, let not that soul write
out that evidence of its deformity, upon its out
er temple, to be known and read of all men,
The body does not need indulgence-a strict
discipline best promotes its happiness and fits
it for minstering to those lofty aspirations of
the soul which SO distinctly mark the suprema-
cy of man, as the noblest among the works of
God. TI aigFa i '.ss.
There are some calings in life which seem
unsuited to healthy development of the body,
and in the hands of ignorant and needless op-
eratives, do their work Of distortion without
hndrance, but most labors can be performed
with such alterations of position and appliance,
that symmetry Of body can be maintained and
its healthful functions remain unimpaired. I
can have no patience with these men and wo-
men, who are so intent upon working only, that
they come to think that work is the chief end
Of life, and for its own sake SO much religious
duty, that they must adapt themselves to its
formula, as though, hay making or cheese ma
king would be their department when they
come to sort Of paradise which they have fig
ured to themselves in some dim mysterious fU-
ture life. Equally absurd is the notion of an.
other class of self made earth-worms, who du-
ring their weary life give themselves no holi-
day, but push on with vague hope of an ely
stun somewhere, in which they can lounge out
their hereafter in. shirt and tlowsers, just as
now they lounge away Sunday in harvest
time. n
One boy in a shop is as good as a man; two
boys, however. are worse than the devil. I'll