Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-26

ltility of the soil. Evcrywhere. too, can found
plenty Of fresh, delicious water in creeks, runs
and springs, even to the very top OIL us fllees.
Also YOU win see wild grasses of different KINDS
and road plants growing most luxuriantly.-
| Having considered these rich specimens OF ma
iturcs tIlrn your eyes towards cleared spots
What do YOU see now A wheat field. with
| more than tvo-thirtis Of the crop weeds the
acre producing perchance 10 or IL bushels in
good seasons; cornfields, the produce OF winch
will scarcely exceed 20 or % bushels, often much
less; here and there perhaps plot Of potatoes,
SONG raysnins. some pumpkins and field-beans
in the corlfeldsi no other vegetables, no gSrtierl
no flowers On the matchmaking roads You
will see pitifni horses rowing about, miserable
cattle full Of little biting insects disgusting 10
look at and still more so, coupled VITA the laea
that their ignorant owners entertain. that catue
needs must have lice. Now make boldly your
yav over weeds as high as the habitation itself,
and do not fill over the heaps of ashes, oldTaSs,
and broken vessels and utensils, aud YOU stand
finally before dirty log cabin. Walk in, ifyon
please Amid the enclosure, cannot call II a
room. Is sitting the old lady smoking and rock
ing in an old, SO called, rocSing-chair, bone
made of course and so entirely diiapidated that
the old lady only maintains her seat by stretch
ing across the seat frame some bits of cloth. II
there be Young ladies, they will sit around on
benches or on the bed also smoking and dream
ing perhaps of beau. Now after having gazed
Mt you long enough, and wondered at every thing
YOU carry about you, they will invite you 10 SAT
down, and then rush upon you with such n tor
rent of questions that you know not hoTy TO an
syyer them all. The man is perhaps iouIglng IN
corner, chewing the best he can, and waiting Tor
some better time to work for laziness is one OF
the virtues Of our backwoods men. But ne
stretches himself and begins to talk poitlcs..-
| He inclines to Buchanan or Fillmore, but the
reason WHY he knows not. But down Ill that
hollow below him lives old Squire ---.
He is the smartest man in the world; he can
read newspaper and sign his name to note.
The squire has told him that this, or that candl-
date was the man for the crisis, and that the
others were ali rascals; all of which this ignora-
mus believes implicitly. MEANWHILE youa are at
liberty to examine the cabin, which will give
lyou at once full ide1 of the whole household,
| fo- it is here still customary TO hang out for
show everything in their possession, and all a.
round you see every kind and sPecimel Of cloth
ing, mostly not of a very clean and suitable ap-
4 uearance-likc as not the pants are without a
seat in them, the socks without feet, shoes with
out soles &c. Seldom is book to he seen, or
any other sign of some kind of education. You
will naturally look in the hot days fer some oil
/ the current prints, but you will be obliged to
wait until you reach some more favored spot.
Perhaps you may get n tin OF milk, but very
often it il the ease that "the COW did not come,
and that there's, as consequences, neither mil;
nor butter in the house. But a drink OF fresh
water will answer. Often, too, you cannot get
even that, because they have no spring, and the
runs dried up. They made hole somewhere
for water, but the pigs are always waLowlnE
lin it However, there is, as I+toid you, nearly
everywhere, the best water to be had.
But would weary your readers If were to
continue on pointing out other incidents which
show the very low state of civilization, and tie
veritable squalilness OF some OF our farming
community. Slice it to say that almost every
thing is wrong, and consequently most of then
are very poor wrctchcS; and misery creates dis
honesty every where. County and State sui
fers by such state of things, and every one
who loves the American people truly, wishes
course to see a remedy applied. Now an lin
portant step has been taken by the Educatlona
Convention. And do hope that resolution vii
result practically. Once establish such school!
Eofappied science as therewas proposed, and car
Imagine then, year after year, sending out sclen
ltifiC and practical men, who will be n pattern
and object of emulation to their ncighborhoods
General blessings must needs proceed from suct
institutions. Agricultural societies spread 0vel
the State have already done something, but they
do not tell the farmer how to do; even the ad
dresses delivered on the occasions of the agricul
Itural fairs, produce little effect, and are in {
great measure more scientific and imaginary
than practical, even such rs toe one delivered be
fore the Agricultural Society of Marshall G0un
ty, at their annual fair ut Moundsyille in 1858
are not appreciated, because the people are
not educated to be able to understand them
There are some other useful things, such as thu
Annual Report of Agriculture, printed by orde
of the government; number of agriculture
papers, &C., but they az, although they d.
much good, fall short Of the end TO be attained
by schools of agriculture. Living, visible teach
ings of scientific and practical farming is wha
is wanted. Every business has to be learned h1
practice us we'll as by theory. There must b.
men, not every ten miles, but at every poin
throughout each county, in order to excite t
activity, to give advicr and to show by thei
own example the advantages 10 be derived from
such education. Now this eau Only be reaiizeI
BY good agricultural schools, combining the sci
ence and practice, which: only will give to tn
country every year number of Intelligent an,
active men, who will fight against old prejudi
ccs. idlcness and every evil, not by words only
but by example.
1His, gentleman, tS-ttc humble opinion of
Yours, truly,
MARsHALL1ANr1s.