Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-10-12

science ana DOCKS as We may iu iSI""S,
this is the farming destined to triumph
Not that every new theory is to be received,
or every jim-crack machine purchased;
yet, improvement must be the farmers
watchword. Farming is science, and We
might as well expect the merchant or the
professional man to succeed without being
posted up in all pertaining to his business
or profession, as that the farmer should oc-
cupy his true position without books, pa
pcrs, and the best implements ofhusbandry.
A new era has opened to the farmer in this
matter, and on its wave he may literally
! become a nobleman.
The farmer needs, and should possess
liberal education. Important rs are our
colleges and seminaries Of learning, it does
not follow the farmer must graduate in Or
der to be educated. He may be educated
and yet never have seen college. After
all, why may not farmers sons and daugh-
ters, as we'll as others, enjoy liberal edu-
cation? At least, shall not our common
school system, the hope and glory Of our
country, be so improved and perfected as
to afford every child in the land thorough
English education? 1t is cheaper by far
to build school houses and churches, than
to build prisons and sustain standing ar
mics. know there is strong prejudice
in the minds of many intelligent farmers
and others against schools and school learn
ing. They say, "H spoHs Mem-makes
them lazy and saucy." Now is it not a
fact that the spelling is done at home, and
for want of education? Is it not q fact
that, in many cases, farmer parents infuse
into their children, with their earliest i'm
pressions, the sentiment that work is not
respectable, and that their position is one
of degradation That they do not intend
SO, may be true, yet this alters not the fact.
Talk, however, as We may, after all, know
ledge is power. The intellectual, the edu-
Gated man, will always command respect,
when worthy Of it. Until farmers feel
and practice with this fact before them,
they will not assume their true position in
society. Long enough have farmers been
regarded as a second or third rate class
II classes Toe must hare, let farmers take
their position as class number one. To
this end foster your agricultural societies.
They are yet in their infancy. Let them
grow up to manhood. Let those having
the charge of them devise ways and means
to make them more interesting and proita-
bic.
Let farmers infusc into their children the
true dignity af a farmers life. All may
not become farmers; but for the supply
drawn from farmers families, the profess
sions would well nigh become extinct. Yet,
rightly educated, and they will always res.
pect and love the old homestead and the
calling of their parents. Then will far
mers' sons feel that they are the hope Of
the country, and farmers daughters not
long to wed some soap-locked dandy with
more hair on his face than brains in his
head, rather than the honest sons Of toll
and industry. The elevation of people,
or q nation, must come from within them
selves. Artificial appliances may do some
thing, yet, after all, the elements of true
greatness must come from the bOdy-from
within. Farmers have these elements, and
they need but to developc them in order
to stand before the world in their true char
AFTER,