Nebraska advertiser., 1856-09-13
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THR PARApTsE OF ZEE FARMKR.

-fFrom ne Rural New Yorker.

between the two, and that any one
locality is just as desirable for a place
of settlement as another. One man
may toll upon a very poor piece of
ground, and at the same time be as
remote from market as another whose
acres yield abundant crops with COM
p~aratiYely little labor. But yet, there
cannot be found, under the most favor
able combination Of circumstances, a
farming district which has not some
drawbacks, nor one which, with all its
Objectionable features, has not some
thing in its favor.
One locality may have an excellent
market for everything hat can be
raised, while at the same time the soil
is SO poor, and the crops so light, the
expense of manuring properly and the
cost of labor so heavy, that, atthe end
of. the year, the nett profits are no
more than those of his brother farmer
less faYorably located. We see this
illustrated in some of the poor lands
in the vicinity Of New York and Bos-
ton. No better market can be found
in the United States for every kind of.
provision, than in the latter CITY,
Garden vegetables and fruits, poultry
and dairy products, grains and grasses,
butcher animals and horses, all COM
mandt the highest fgurein cash, and at.
all seasons ofthe year; and ret the sands
of Cape Cod lay open to the common,
and the inhabitants seek a living by
chasing whales amid the icebergs of
the Polar seas, or catching fish on the
banks of New Foundland. Lands,
covered with a stunted growth of trees
and bushes, or denuded even of these
by the demands of the city, exist abund-
antly in Connecticut and on Long
Island, within three hours ride of New
York, too poor to cultivate and too.
proftless to pay for bringing into
fertility.
In other places the soil may be rich,
but stony and hard to till; horse rakes
and moving machines are out of the
question, and manual labor must be
called into requisition. The primal
curse, Gin the sweat Of thy brow shalt
thou eat bread" is here exemplifed,
by the hardy and toiling husbandman.
a good market is afforded however,
for all their surplus products, and the
farmers thrive upon their labors. The
hills Of New Hampshire and Vermont
n Illustrations in point.
Western New York is the exponent
of an excellent farming region, rich of
soil; easy Of culture, and favorably
located to market; but under all these
advantages, it is far from paradise in
the ordinary a~cceptation of the term.
The. farmer here has many enemies to
l.. contend against; his position is no
sinecure, and while heis sure to increase
his inheritance by an active and intelli-
gent management of his acres, he is
Just as sure to lose all by supineness
and neglect, The earth and the air
are. full of cou~nteracting, as well as
favorable influences, and it requires all
his skill and vigilance to promote the
one and to n~eutralize the other. Nox-
ious weeds are to be eradicated, grubs
and worms exterminated or guarded
against, multitudes of winged insects
ride upon the breeze, or gather in
swarms upon the crops, singing the
fruits, eating out the life of plants,
and blighting the green grain. This
may look like a gloomy picture, and
an untrue one, in view of the great
amount of surplus products of the finest
quality Sent annually to market from
this locality; but we appeal to the
farmer if it is not true, and if his fears
are not exercised, and his energies
taxed, from the moment his seed is in
the ground to that when ripened fruits
are matured and housed? If it be mo-
true, the farmers as a class are the mos
dependent and ~ungrateful of men; for
during the progress of the season, W.
receive the accounts of the disastrou,
effects of drouth, flooding, insects anC
blight.
The Western States have, like al
other places, their advantages and dis
advantages. The virgin soil of some
prolific in everything valuable as foo
for man, has not yet become infested
with the enemies, both animal ant
vegetable, which long cultivation ha.
developed in the older States; but vet
the cost of transportation to a distan
market, renders the labors of tn,
farmer scarcely remunerative. Me-
can live, and have abundance of hOna
comforts, but they are obligedto foreg,
the l~uxuries and many of those othe.
comforts which commerce and inter
change of products can alone supply
Some Of the Northwestern States ay,
a prolific soil, but a long and frigic
winter, rivaling in rigor that of New
England; sickness visits some region
otherwise favorably located, and so OF
to the end of the chapter.
The paradise of the former exist
nowhere; the means of living com
fortably, honorably, independently
everywhere. The Specification of tn
word ParaddisOs, in the origina