The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-12-30
agricultural.
ADDRESS,.

D.lircred before the agricultural Society Of
Montgomery County, September 14h, 1854.
BY CHAUNCEY P. HOLCOMB,
OF DELAWARE.
(Continusd)
My argument, then, in reference to the Ia
Dor of our farms is, that we must so select,
manage, and conduct it as to make these
manual operations in which so many of our
hours ard days are passed pleasant occu-
patton, and if not an actual pleasure, at least
an agreeable duty If we do not, most other
occupations have the advantage over us; if
we do not, and our lives are to be passed il
watching, scolding, and barking up our men,
there Is only one consolitary reflection that
can arise from it, and that is that we Shall
make ourselves so miserable here that the
devil himself can hardly make us moro so
hereafter.
OF course, there arc scenes of trial and vcx-
alton to he cncountercd-no occupation Of
life is exempt from these; but if the agricul.
turiSt has more annOyanccs arising directly
from his business than is to be found in other
occupations, even the most favored pursuits,
the fault is either in the selection of bad la
Dor or the bad management of it,
have made some suggestions to show that
even so far as the manual and norma! opera
tons of agriculture are concerned, We are
concerned, we are quite on a footing with the
most favored pursuit. Let us see now if for
other reasons the American agricuItu1st has
not cause to be satisfied with the pleasant
places in which his lot is cast
The agriculturist certainly has the adyan-
tage in the great and all-important considers
ton of health over all dcnizcns of cities DR..
Draper, the President of the Medical Faculty
Of New York, stated in his annual address of
1853, that five hundred children under two
years Of age died weekly in the city of New
York. But Dr.. Draper stated this additional.
bold, and startling clct that but for the re-
sources Of population they dlaw from the
country, thc population Of our large cities
would become extinct"
As an Offset to this greater risk encounter
cd to their Lcalth and lives by the dtnizens
of cities, ii is said they enjoy greater facilities
for accommodating wealth, the principal object
for which the American citizen is supposed to
live! and certainly the object in the pursuit
of which he ofcn prcmaturlly dies. There
may hemuch doubt I apprchend, as to even
the correctness Of this prctenSion. Farmers
have very queer way Of keeping accounts
keeping them Tor the most part only in the
head" as it is called: bad place to keep
columns Of figures. They credit the poor
farm for what is left when they have got their
living out of it, When we have lived wcll,
and dressed well, rode well, and entertained
well, we usually give the poor farm credit for
what is left what we can't cat up or spend.
and, had almost said give away.
The farmer has lived in good house. 4
merchant in the city would have to pay from
$500 10 81 600 for as good a one. He has
set good table. The merchant going to the
meat market, the vegetable market, the fruits
market, the baker aud the dairyman, would
have an item in his neatly kept ledger Of one
thousand dollars or more for house expenses
Another charge Oft couple OF hundred GU
more would so down for fuel; which the far
mer would haul from his woods, and make no
account Of. Another charge the merchant
would make for his riding-cithcr the ex-
pcnse of keeping carriage, or bills paid for
his riding-either the expense Of keepinga
carriage, or bills paid for hiring at livery.
Here then is made up of out goes for nee
cssaries in order to live in ely, some two
thousand dollars and upwards, equal to the
interest on the entire purchase money Of It
fine farm. and of which items, or their ag-
gregatc, the tartncr generally takes little or mo-
notice in any account he may keep with his
farm. Yet the first thing that money is wan
ted for, the first thing it is expended for, is
to support the family.
[ would like to see an account stated saw
by master in chanccry, where he was in
sructcd, from the character of some htiga-
ion that might arise, to charge the farmer
With each item he had consumed at city re-
all prices, and for each ride he had taken at
livery stable prices. 1t would show up some
If our economical farmers" so called, sus-
oect, as great spendthrifts. The rate at
which they had lived would not little sur
Prise themselves as well as His Honor the
chancellor.
ITO be Continued.)
'NoTE.-Since the above was written, DR..
,bn byS ,l, of
,hia, on my mentioning to him the statement
If DR.. Draper said he had no doubt of the
ruth of the remark, and added that he had
lftcn ohserynd that il Philadclnhi wcrn To