Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-11-26
FARMING AS A FINE ART.

FARMlNG AS A FINE ART.
Edward Everett, who touches nothin.
that he does not adorn, delivered the ad
dress before the New York Agricultural So
ciety, on the 9th of October. We tax,
pleasure in transferring the closing portion
; to our columns:
Gone more suggestion, my friends, anc
l relieve your patience. AS a work of art
know few things more pleasing to the eye
or more capable Of affording scope and gra
tifcation to taste for the beautiful, than 6
well-situated, well-cultivated farm. Tho
man of refinement will hang with unweari.
ed gaze on landscape by Claude or SALIVA.
tor; the price of selection of the most fer
tile land in the West would not purchase a
few square feet of the canvas on which these
great artists have depicted rural scene
But Nature has forms and proportions be-
yond the painters skill; her divine pencil
touches the landscape with living lights and
shadows, never mingled on his pallet.
What is there on earth which can more en-
tlrely charm the eye, or crafty the taste,
than noble farm? Itstands upon south
ern slope, gradually rising with variegated
ascent from the plain, sheltered from the
northwestern winds by woody heights, brok-
en- here and there with moss-covered bould-
ers, which imparts variety and strength to
the outline. The native forest has been
cleared from the greater part of the farm,
but suitable portion, carefully tended, re-
mains in wood for economical purposes, and
give picturesque effect to the landscape.
The eye ranges round three fourths of the
horizon or a fertile expanse, bright with
the cheerful waters of a ripping stream, a
generous river, or cleaning lakc-dotted
with hamlets, each with it's modest spire-
and if the farm lies in the vicinity of the
coast, distant glimpse, from the high
grounds, of the mysterious, everlasting sea,
completes the prospect. It is situated off
the high road, but near enough to the vii
lage to be easily accessible to the church,
the school-house, the post Office, the rail-
road, a sociable neighbor, or a travelling
friend. It consists in due proportion Of
pasture and tillage, meadow and woodland,
field and garden.
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with the fitting appendage of stable and
barn, and corn barn, and other farm build
ings, not forgetting spring house with
living fountain Of water-occupies upon
gravelly knoll a position well chosen to COM
mand the whole estate. A few acres on the
front and on the sides of the dwelling, set
apart to crafty the eye with the choicer
forms Of rural beauty, are adorned with
stately avenue, with solitary trees, with
graceful clumps, shady walks, velvet lawn,
a brook murmuring over pebbly bed, here
and there grand rock, whose cool shadow
at sunset streams across the field; all dis
playing, in the real loveliness of nature, the
original of those landscapes Of which art in
its perfection strives to give us the counter
felt presentment. Animals of select breed,
such as Paul Potter, and Morland, and Land
seer, and Rosa Bonheur, never painted,
roam the pastures, or fill the hurdles and
the stalls; the plough walks in rustic majes-
ty across the plain and opens the genial bo-
som of the earth to the sun and air; natures
holy sacrament of seed time is solemnized
beneath the vaulted cathedral sky; silent
dews, and gentle showers, and kindly sun
shine. shed their sweet influence on the
teeming soil; springing verdure clothes the
plain ; golden wavelets, driven by the west
wind, run over the joyous wheat field; the
tall maize faunts in her crispy leaves and
nodding tassels; while we labor and while
we rest, while we wake and while we sleep,
Gods chemistry, which we cannot see, goes
on beneath the clouds; myriads and myriads
of vital cells ferment with elemental life !;
germ, and stalk, and flower, and silk, and
tassel, and grain, and fruit, grow up from the
common earth; the moving machine and the
reaper, mute rivals of mans industry, per-
form their gladstone task; the ell-piled wa
gon brings home the ripened treasures of the
year: the bow of promise fulfilled spans the
foreground of the picture, and the gracious
covenant is redeemed, that while the earth
remaineth, summer and winter, and heat and
cold, and day and night, and seed-time and
harvest, shall not fail" NJ
How many sickly ones wish they we're
healthy; how many beggermen wish they
were wealthy; how many ugly ones wish
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