Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-10-28
a, Agricultural Society.


In this go-aheat age, when mans intellect is |
taxed to devize means elevate his and make it
wiser and happier, it is folly for any portion of hui
gress to take it up and whirl it the eence at
tanned by its neighbors No matter whether gaze
at the soirings of intellect or the workings of physi
cal ingenuity, cannot fail that the oi
our race, and particularly the Anglo-Saxon portion of
il, is onward and upward The feelings. the thoughts
the aspirations of the people have changed and with
them their modes Of conveyance and implements OF
industry. We longer the numbering stage
coach which contented our progenitors by carrying
them along at the rate OF five miles an hour. 1t is
numbered among the curiosities of ygone age
The wooden plough and harrow, too, are almost
obsolete the old wind mills which once sp.ead their
sails aloft All these replaced by articles more
i'll accordance with the requirements of the age which
IS aptly styled fast Everything must be fast
now, and we turn from the pace of our fathers
with something very like smile.
There once time when the farmer Tiled his
soil and satisfied when competence rewarded
him. Not now. The same land which then pro-
duced twenty bushels of wheat TO the acre must
| produce forty. The number of horses which
then drew one tuu TO market must now draw two and
this progress has enabled agricultuTalsts TO
educate their and daughters, and become what
nature intended they should be, the class Of The com
munity first in wealth first in intelligence, and first in
power -
| Agricuitural societies have done much towards
bringing about these results The competition which
they have given rise TO- and the information which
they have disseminated, have made those sections in
which they established far outsirp those less ia
vored The annual exhibition OF the products of the
SOIL and skill OF the mechanic, has brought together
the old and young from all sections and they have
viewed with delight, these productions. They saw
what the and labor of their naighbor aided by
the knowledge he had been able to CLEAN from SINH
lar exhibitions and periodicals devoted TO the
cause had produced, and prohting by what they saw
| they resolved 10 do likewise The resolution, thus
made, failed not to produce good, and the next
annual fair found them competing for the prize. The
! stimulaat thus given 10 industry and improvement
| will not sleep, and its effect is felt for years.
There is, however, innate prejudice in the minds
OF some men, which, if LETT alone will forever bind
! them down TO tue ways of their ancestors. To all
propositions for the introduction ofnew machinery
and theories in their mode OF FILLING the soil they
will answer, . Our ancestors not Gookarmers-
they lived, and SO We 1t is OF no use 10
with such men-the only way 10 get them 10 join the
tide OF improvement is 10 SO leaving them Jogging
III their ancestral routine of duty behind and they
will soon tire of their predicament and join in the
chase. II will 90 good TO tell them that Messrs.
So andse have done so-andso, aud that il won't cost
them mgsfl to try such and such experiments They
will notlisten and they will despse your theories un
til they find that these theories have carried their
more venuresome eighbors far in advance of them.
Everybody laughs when some restive mind trys to
invent something entirely novel, and wisely says that
it be done-that it is impossible. But no
sooner is the discovery made aud given to the world
than everybody wonders it not discovered long
ago-it is simple. Just with agricultural i'm
Lprovements. Some announces that certain kind
Of manure is suited Tor certain kind of soil, and
few, very few will try it. 1t is found to be benef-
cial, and, in the end all adopt it. Now, the same
rule will hold good in almost every case and we
ture 10 say that many who read this article will
the time when all agriculturalists will be book far
! mers.
We have written lengthiiy this subject for we
desire to the people of Cambria county to the
| importance of organizing an Agricultural Society
Every county round US has society of this kind and
we left perched upon exalted position watch
ing what the enterprise Of neghbors will come to-
Should they outstrp in the for prosperity we
can have excuse, for our natural advantages are
equal 70 theirs Let citizens then attend the NEE
uns which is advertised in todays paper and let US
JOIN in the honest strife for improvement and will
| not be left behind
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