Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-11-26
VOL. 4. NO. 5.

agents there is a wide field for the exercise OF
q judgment aud skill. Liquid manure is the
. most effective perhaps, of all others Plants
absorb their food at the extremties of the root;
and if their nourishment be Equidated to the
e proper extent so as not to injure the. seed by
: fermentation, it is most readily taken up
Therefore, the practice of mixing common
t manure with water is recommended by ma
! jority of experienced husbandmen. But in
) the application of this as of all other means
which nature and the sister arts of chemistry
and philosophy have placed at our disposal.
we must be guided ty the circunfsta nces of
each case. Nature is inexorable in her de-
mand that the labor essential to the produc-
tion of abundant crosss should correspond as
nearly as possible to the requirements of her
laws. She opens willingly the stores of her
fertility to judiclous and well applied labor
while to the siuggard her beauty and richness
are never disclosed. Farmers of Cambria
County Let me exhort you to an attentive
study of the noble art in which you are en-
barked, Be not discouraged by the rugged
face of your mountains. The difficulties you
encounter develope the noblest energies and
capacities of your manhood Obstacles which
now present the appearance of magnitude will
disappear finally from your path and the rug
I ged slopes of your native hills will bloom with
the welcome fertility of cultivated natureu
| Agriculture too has its poetry. as well as
other pursuits. The leisure hours of a taAe-
full farmer are devoted to the cultivation and
adornments of his garden. There is nothing
more delightful TO the eye than a handsome
! disposition of the shade trees and shrubbery
/ around the quiet dwelling of the husbanaman.
/ 1t is painful to behold tasteless if not up-
comfortable dwelling surrounded by a, yard
and garden, falling rapidly into neglect and
consequent decay. Every farmer has the
means of making his dwelling. though hum
/ bic and quiet. a home inviting the repose of
all who behold The shade trees, as they
grow old, are associated with pleasing remin-
| iscences that lingcr round us in our childheod
and become entwined- with-our affections j.,
maturer years. An elegant arrangement of
shrubbery around farm house, besides con
ducing to its comfort, manifests refined and
gentle disposition. W bat were the Landscapes
of Claude Lorain without the soft expanse of
the harvest field, diversified by the luxuriant
bowers which nature affords under the arsif-
eial guidance of elegance and taste 2, Who
does not remember the old shade tree in the
yard of his house m the couptryf How in
his youthful gambok he climbed its curved
trunk or sat under its ample foliage, in the
quiet of a summer evening If destruction
threaten it, he is ready to demonstrate in the
sweet bat mournfui accents of the poet,rsis5
'sOh lay not low the green OAK tree, r -
Beneath whose boughs my chfihood vpiayse,i.''
But pass to the consideration of another
branch of the day sabject-the influence of
agriculture on the national interests of our
people. Capital says political economist
may be employed in four different ways u
first in procuring the rude. produce annually
required for the consumption of society I'd.
in preparing the rude produce for i'm mediate
use Sd, in transporting the rude and manu-
factured produce from the places where they
abound to those in which they are in demand
and lastly in dividing and dsposing of them
to suit the demands of those by whom they
are wanted. Under the first head comes ali
the produce Of land, BY far the largest .siIarta
of which is included in the pursuit Of aeri
culture. The next comprises the various man
ufacturing arts while the third and last takes
up the field of commerce. Manufactures and
other kinds of trade depend uponithe emp:oy
ment of capital in furnishing rude produce to
certain degree of ABUNDANCE The capitaI
employed by the farmers controls a greater
greater quantity of productive labor thar,,tbat
of any other pursuit: because in agriculture
nature laboss as well as man, and her labor
though attended by no expense, has its value.
like that OF the most efficient workp.an The
!abors of husbandry. unlike those of any 9TH
CT pursuit, nave au INDUSTRIOUS assistant in
the operations of nature Agriculture seems
not so much to increase, Qhough that is also
done) as to lead the fertility of nature to the
production of those vegetables most profitable
to man. The active fertility of the sol is fre-
quently regulated more than animated bx
planting and tilling and after their labor an
important part of the work remains to be done
by nature. The labor employed in aericul.
ture not only effect like the operatives in fac
tories, the reproduction of a value equivalent
to the capital which controls it. along with
its owners profits, but of much greater val
ue. Profits that remain after coInpensatino
the labors of man are due to the benevolent
operations of nature These are eeneraIlv a
third or fourth part of the whole produce. A
reproduction so great can never be occasioned
BY any other braEch of labor In them all
is performed by man. while nature effects lit
tie or nothing; and the reproduction is always
in proportion TO the forces by which it is oe
casioned Therefore not only more produc
tive labor is put in motion by the capital of
the agriculturalist than by any equal capital
of the manufacturer or, merchant but in a
ratio to the productive labor the former en-
ploys, it increases the annual produce of the
land and the, labor of the country. and hence
the wealth and revenue of the nation Of
all the channels into which capitsl can flow,
it is by far the most conducive to national
prosperity. Besides an important adyantage
to naticn from having a large amount tsf
capital invested in agriculture, arises from the
circumstances of ats being fixed resident wealth
Money employed in this pursuit is uniftr.nlv
distributed among the mem hare <,f