Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-03-08
farmers Department.
Prospects lOf American Farmers for
1866.

There never has been g brighter prospect
opened for any class Of citizens, than looms up
before the farmers Of the United States for the
coming, aud probably many successive seasons.
Three Of the leading commercial nations Of Eu-
rope. aud fOurth-a secOnd-rste poWer-em.
brseing over goo. 900, 900 people, are engaged
in mortal combat, striving. BY every possible
means. TO reduce the products and resources Of
each other, and render them unsyailing for
their own use, or that Of ghboring nations
Already they have shut up the interior of a
continent, that has hitherto supplied no ineon.
siderable share Of the European demand for
wheat and other bresdstuffs. The imneasura.
bly, extended and fertile plains Of Austria and
Southern Russia, are hermetTcally sealedagainst
the export Of a single cargo of the staff OF life,
and they may thus remain ul the close Of the
present European war. In addition to the com.
prehensiye hostilities that now preysil abroad,
Austria assumes the attitude Of the fretful DOR.
eupine' She stands bristllng with 100000
sabres, and bayonets and on the dawn OF
spring, it would not be surprising to find all
Europe msrshaled on one side or the other Of
this hostile array.
In is inevitable, in the withdrawal Of the i'm
mense amount Of human labor from the cultiya-
ton of the soil, which these operations insure,
that every article Of consumption must continue
at very high prices, if they do not exceed the
present exhorbitsnt rates. Almost every eats
bic. flesh. grain, vegetables. are worth nearly
double ;heir average rates, and this, too, when
manufactured and other articles of necessity
are unusually cheap, and probably below their
customary value. Thus while the farmer is
getting twice as much for his crops as he has
been accustomed to. he is paying less for eve-
ry necessary article required for his consump-
lion.
But the advantages we predict for our agri.
culturists can be realized only by the intelligent
and the industrious. If you don't raise the
crops, you will surely not be paid for them
Set vigorously 10 work at once, and prepare
6eld as soon as the frost will permit; provide
your manures, and il you have not enough al,
ready to give an ample dressing to all our cul
Iiyated acres, procure them elswhere; ashes
plaster, guano, bone-dust superphosphate q
lime, and whatever your own experience ol
that Of your neighbor indicates as best suited to
your proposed crops, and which can be readily
procured; get the best seeds and the besl imp
ments to BE- had; adopt the most iudicious sys-
TENS Of cultivation; and put every IDLE hand
you have about you to the plow aud the active
labors of the farm, and our word for it, you
will have no cause to complain of the upa
ton, or the times, for any lack Of success you
will encounter,
| Farmers Of the United Statesl You have tn,
most honorable calling that ever engaged
class in any nation, ancient or modern you
have now an opportunity of making it the mos
lucrative-it will BE- your own fault il you
not improve it. Do not, with the foolish ez
pectation of seeing your sons or dependent
succeed better elsewhere, drive or allow tber
to be drawn away to other more promising
but only promising pursuits, mercantile, prc
, fessional OF otherwise. Attach them to you
own honorable calling, and let them impart
It whatever they can bring to its aid, OF inte
ect and muscular vigor, and:you VI be libe
ally rewarded in their certain aud abundsl
success Am. Agriculturist.