Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-11

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fSssY&e arcin receipt Of an ADDRESS deslSeFsa Gu.
before the Virginia State Agricultural Society,
by franklin Minor, Of AlbcrmarlcJ We would
elaily,lsy the whole address before our
hut its length forbid& We must content our:
selves with some extracts His remarks were
iaten,lciiIor poorer land than ours Speaking
affirming obstacles, he thus touches Congress
The second physical obstacle which meets us
here is the cost Of artificial fertilizers TO re
Ince the experse of some of these is less in the
mower e the husbahtnan than, of tile law-mak-
crs of the land who assemble In IA certain Dis
trict where II reports be true, much old wins
XIV Is drunk and sundry fStoftiees scrambled for.
G;uauo, for instance, which recent information
inciines me to rank amongst the permanent Ter
tiIizerss has its price much enhanced by legal
enactments in foreign countries, which Congress
has power in some measure to remedy But
cannot advise you, brother farmers, to delay the
RENOVATION of your impoverished fields till the
politicians find time to help you, tyou chance
to7tarTy long and go away disappointed at last
You must put your own shoulders to the wheel,
or stick in themud Hercules isstnck fasthim
self in the filth of the Augea1 stable at the me-
tropolisf and cannot respond to our prayers. We
must help ourselves Our own State will fur
nist lime GYPSUM mari, and other valuab ne aux
iliariesy II we only develope her vast resources
of.Wealth by wise and judicious system of inn
11EOVetn9nES4.
pOrtancc ares0ur manure heaps, which may be
doubled in size and value by greater care skill
and attention. i once made calculation, based
Onmy own and other persons experience, which
showed that labor and money. spent in the pre-
partition, saving and application OF farm ma,
nureSSi clded more than thirty per ct. OF annual
profit. Greater attention to this vital bTanchof
husbantlry will soon reduce the cost of the fer
titizing agents without onr going to that pool of
corruption on which tho angel of agricultural
anelioration has. never yet Observation-Disclosures
angry and turbid waters, however, are daily nay
hourly, troubled by the demon of party Strife
and where hungry Nofficc-seekers tumble in y
whether for the healing of their sins or no. Isay
not Let, us not look thither for help: that
source offers no hopes to the farmer, go
Speaking of distance from market, which is
the great; element of price in most mems views,
ISlSys - II lli.t ,sfstss - t=1
i shan .detain you to notice but ono moro ply
steal obstacle in our path formidable in the opin
ion OF many wise and jndicious friends Of ,agrl-
cultural progress: the difficulty of access to mar
Eet. = Now a good market, and one near at hand
appeareth to be good thing flor all men, and is
good thing, undoubtedly, for them who have
nine hundred acres Of land in wheat, six hunt
tlrel and fifty IN corn, and other crops in pro-
portion; as Mr.. fBnrgwyn. of North Carolina IS
said in the newspapers to have had last summer!
But ! do not know any thing more tover-rated'
than markets and access to-Inarkets Unfnrtu-
nateiy every road has two ends, and while one
serves the farmer to send his crops to market,
the other serves the merchant 10 send his wares
in pursuit of the farmers gains. II the road he
short the merchant has generally cinPtcd the
hIlsbandman's pocket before he gets home
Near to sell, near to buy" is, or ought to be,
an old Atage. for it is very true one. More
men fail TO improve their lands by buying TOP
much at the store, than hy selling too little at
tie market. When the market is near, fash.
ions are near and they cost mint of money
How many men have heard the iron horse snort
for the first time by their doors with buoyant
hopes Of increased incomes, who, .at.the close of
the year, when the balance sheet of receipts and
expenditures has been struck, have found them
selves no richer by being near to market. The
Outgo has grown as fast as the income
I,fcar you will set me down as anti progress
Sivc, and a foe TO improvement 4ctyou will
do me great wrong if you do. There is no man
who is more ardent friend of progress than
am. But would have InoralprogreSS keeppace
with physical. Iwant to be sure that we are
progressing in the right way. A'rnari may pro
gress towar,lssth the devil fast as and othcrway;
nay, faster, il, aSis said, the road to Old Nicks
house is down hill. All l ask for is that VIC be
sure we are going right before VIC go ahcadiand
shout '.Iostriumphe." 1t might be well to stop,
il we cOnld, and Inquire whittier this mighty
wave of physical progress is driving us-whc-
theS. TO tho haven or the maeIStTomf = But 1t is
too late now. inc steam IL up Ile Slallot mouse
is passed, Young America is aboard may hea-
ven defend us from smash. From present APP
pcaTanecs, the next generation will be born, the
boys in boots and the giFlssin stays What will
tho men and women be. There must still bepro-
greSs for them too, aud their descendants. Then
how will their chidren's children appear! Will
they not have to start before they arc born -
Nay, think you not there is danger of some
fast generation refusing to be born atall lest the
time lost in that ld-IashiOned operation may
enure to give their daddieS the start of them. i
pray you, gentlemen, in this age of physical
progress, look well, to tho early nurture Of your
sons and. daughters, for it may como to be your
last act of control over them. .,ss a
.There is acuTiotIs thing about this getting near
TO lpartet. Tho distance, in;some cases, if meas
urSa by time, Inns been almost annihilatcd. Ny
own tobacco nor is within ten hours Of Rich
rnSnd4 +it'used to be nearly five days -Butwheh
fbe time was long the freight was lOW-thrce
dollars ahogshcadi when wasii five days distant,
more than five dollars now that Ecount by hours
]. do not quite understand this yet and aal pa
ticntlv waiting for further develOpementS; but,
i confess. IL looks somewhat sif 1 had snapped
the deYiIfor a witch, goIpick, but pay ronnd-
Is for the speed. Ibeg you, my brother farmers,
not to sigh after proximity to market, nor delay
tfS'worki Of agricultural Improvement till tho
railroad whistle awaEes tho slumbefingi echpes
of your hills. Nearness to market IS a fearful
vortex of temptation, aud few there be who
weather ii; and as for railroads, they are wond-
rous fine things, if VIC only look at the thunder
ng train of cars ifreightell for market; but the
back loading il sometimes spawn of vices and
vanities, which breeds unnumbered ills in the
simple home ofsthe ilusbandrnan.s When fru-
RSiity IS the housekeeper, it matters little how
the crops get to market ethcr '6ywagon or
{Silroad: but woe to the 1hekless wight Who lets
tFleastcan whistle scare him from his hearth. l
am persuaded that if you viii consider the mat
ter in all its hearings lupral well as cconomi-
will be ready 10 agree with me, that
mOrs irnnor tsncc is attached to proximity to
market than it deserves, and that agricultural
Improvement needs depend very little upon it
The moral obstacles which impede tho march
Of agricultural Improvement are much more
serious and iinsufln6dntab than athe physical
ones, because the minds OF man are far more