The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-11-10
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consequence OF this IS an enormous and
perilous consumption of flesh as food, to
an extent unknown in other countries
We are nationly surfeited with pork and
tainted with scrofula, not because we are
so fond of pork, but because, for an i'm
portant portion of each year, the ajori-
ty of the population of the U. States,
can get little beside. 1.-The foolishness
of preaching" will never suffice to
correct this alteration; for men who
work must eat, though their food be not
the best; but give us an abundance OF
the choicest fruits and vegetables, with
farmers who know how to grow them and
and truly educated housewives, who de-
light in preparing and serving them, and
we shall enjoy health, elasticity and lon
gevity to an extent now unknown. A
flesh diet is the dearest, the least palata-
bic and the least wholesome, and all that
is needed to wean men from it is the pre-
sent .on of better. To secure this, we
need only farmers who will feel ajust
pride in having the finest orchards and
gardens-who will surround, not merely
their own dwellings,, but those of their
tenants and helpers also, with choice
trees; and who will plant and keep plant
ing until good fruit shall be so abundant
that it can be no longer an object to steal
It.
But detain you too long, though many
suggestions crowd upon me which
would gladly develop, did time permit.
would like to illustrate that inspiring
theme. THE HARMONY OF INTERESTS be-
tween farmer and manufacturer, which
renders each new factory or workshop es-
tablished in an agricultural county or dis.
trict positive accession of wealth to eve
ry famer who lives within the radius o
its influence. You may readily perceive
the addition of value given to each farm
in Indiana by any canal or railroad which
cheapens the cost of sending that farms
surplus produce to market-that is, to
producers of the wares you require or the
fabrics you consume;-and how much
greater must be the saving, the benefit, tC
Indiana, of bringing to her soil or neal
it, instead of the fabrics, their manufac
lures, so as to render them perpetual an(
more extensive consumers of her pro
duce, l need not surely insist on.
But pass over this and kindred topics
not as out of place but out of time, to
dwell for moment on the necessity tina
every where exists for increased facilities
to practical education.
have been exhorting your young far
mers to study and master the vocation tc
which their lives are to be devoted-and
that is right-but what if they were tc
turn on me with the inquiry" Whert
shall we study" How shall answer
them if they ask-"How and where are
we to learn, how to analyze soils and
make ourselves familiar with all the sci
ence which lies at the base of agriculture
as well as mechanics?' | can only say
to them, awe in New Y York are determin-
ed, as soon as may be, to have a People,
College to teach these important, vital
truths to all who seek them, and to enable
them to pay their way by their labor
while learning; and we trust you in Indi-
ana will speedily follow if you do not pre-
cede u.s." That is the best that can be
said to-day; l trust ere long to be able to
speak more to the purpose.
I do not seek to disguise the magnitude
and the difficulty of the work 1 contem-
plate-that of revolutionizing our Agri-
culture, and making it the most elevated
and ennobling, because the most intellec-
tual, pursuit of man. Irealize the noun
tains of Prejudice that are to be leveled,
the Dead Seas of Ignorance that must be
filled up, the constitutional immobility of
Conservatism that must be overcome, be-
fore the end can be attained. But see
also how "the stars in their courses fight
in behalf of Progress and Enlightenment
how immense has been the march OF
Intelligence as well as invention and Phys
ical improvement in our age-how the
steamboat, the railroad, the Steam Press,
the ocean steamship, the electric tele-
graph, are speeding us onward with a
momentum the world has never before
known-and hear voice from all these
and many kindred impulse and infu-
ence, bidding man the cultivator advance
boldly and confidently to take his proper
post as lord of the animal kingdom and
wielder of the elements of the satisfaction
of his wants and the development of his
immortal powers. l hear them calling
him to vindicate the discernment or the
presence of those glorious old Greeks who
gave our earth in her young luxuriance
the name of Kosmos or Beauty-a name
belied by our SCARED and stumpy grain
fields, our scared and barren pastures, oul
bleak and arid deserts, our foul, malari-
GUS marshes; but which science shall vel
justly and Joyous labor perpetuate In
spite of all distractions and impediments