Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-01-04
Dignity and Importance Of agriculture.


Dixnity and importance Of agriculture.
~Agriculture is immea urably the most
gigantic of all industrial and productive
pursuits. It is the first, the greatest, the
moot useful, the noblest employment of man.
Distributing the people Of the world into
classes, representing their respective pt,r-
suits agriculture represents seven eighths,
while all others combined represent but one
eighth Of the whole. As a means of creating
individual and National wealth, therefore,
agriculture is infinitely greater than all 9TH
srs together, and without which no other
could be efectually employed. Indeed, the
very existence of civilized communities is
wholly depend mt npon its products, since it
alone supplies food and raimrnt for all. The
soil is our common mother, from whose
boun'iful breast we derive our nourishment
and subsistence. Agriculture therefore l.
the basis of all other industrial and practi-
cal interests. As an art, the oldest of arts
iii the sustaining mother of all the arts. As
science. it claims the hemage and inyokes
the aid, while itself Is the support of all the
Sciences. AZ the means Of promoting health
strength. all manly development, it is most
.eosgenial to our organization. As means
Of developing our intellectual nature and
powers, it is the most efficient in summoning
their exercise, and has ever been the favor
ite pursuit of the greatest and nohlest minds.
As a means of private and individual hap
piness, it is the FIRST and last resource for
the supply Of the wants and the qualification
Of the ,tural desires Of life. As q means
ofsustaining the ca!mness Of life, and sup
porting the dignity Of age, it is the station
forEwhiCh no matter Whit our early ed
pca.ion and pursuits unless depraved by fol-
" or fashion, we all pant with inaxtinguish-
able ardor and longing. As means of en-
-ab!ing US to discharge oil the obligations and
duties Of lfe-those ne owe ourselves, our
family our friends, our country, and greatest
Of oil, our God, it is FIRST in efficiency of all
wishswhich heaven has blessed US. Its pro-
ducts furnish material for employing every
other branch Of industry. All other arts arc
in strict language its auxiliary branches and
its landmarks. The labor of manufactures
Unemployed to change the form of its pro.
ducts, and supply it with impliments and
tools; and commerce is engaged, as a car
iler % change the; place Of its products, by
distributing and interchanging the fruits Of
NidereEt climates or localities, and thus sup
Ply the necessaries and Injuries of civilized
hfe' Without agriculture, commerce and
Manufactures could claim neither existence
nor name. Without 1t education, arts scien.
ces refinement. moral and mental improve
ment, would languish and expire. Without
civilization would be unknown and men be
teduc to savage brutes, providing through
,ne dark forests OF primcval nature, like
beasts Of prey, seeking a precarious subsis-
1eoce IN the spoil of the chase" --[From an
address BY Thos. h. Stevenson, Esq deliver
q at Germantown Nv.
Az Iowa MusEux.-At Fort Des Moines
Hhsy have museum. 1t has been in opera
tion for the short space Of one year and yet
they have upward of srven hundred speci-
mems in crnithol,gy and twenty-five n Zoolo-
n, and NJ lhconsiderable collection Of min
erals. Estimated from list of prices OF
American Museum the collection is worth
5000. The Museum AT Fort Dcs MDines
Vas establ shed and sustained by w. r.
'te,Esq., y di 1 nguished na,urasisi.-Dav.
NotA than four hundred dsguerreotype
Pictures have been already sent from the sea,
.etawsrst Paris, represeoting tha ac's an0
deeds Of the army. beth on land and sea, nm
DER Ill aspects and circumstances, ana vii.
the most matthew ltical precision. SO fA
has this been carried. the. oil the reports Il
we M.i:.:::::..sr OF War are accompanied by On
gasrreosype pictures Of most remarkably
beauty and prec sion.
The N. Y. Mirror says: ssM,ny Of ~
roa6er~l Ill: hn ,,..np;s..d III Il I'm kh.it til
fright received by our ship owners on .
ne products 0f our fields, mines, forrs's an
Workshops. sent to foreign countrie !, ana o
ths goo ls We rs-export do not eq "a, IN =
ae1at, the PISS age mony paid ios to 10 O., Q
me eshiE ans who arrive at our port. I'M
sact d stated 10 III !. repor, Of a COMMITTEE 3
afComm ssionsrs Of EAi, luon."
800 WHEELING, Va, Dec. y.
!hsrs . twelve fest Of vstsr here andss'