True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-01-28
Farmers Writing.

We have observed of late, in several
agricultural papers, very praiseworhy
articles urging Ialmrs TO Practice the art
Of writing and to occupy themselves at
lines OF leisure in seitingMuwn their
ex etiences, There is more sound sense
in this suggestion than many might at first
suppose, an the result might be benefits
of highly rlclicaI nature.
In The first Place, remarks the Philadel-
phia Bulletin, there is scarcely flrmer
in the country Who'll not possessed. ola
vast amount Of practical knowledge
we might say Of which he might
most advan!ageously communicate. This
is the case even with the Old fashioned
agriculnrist who puts no faith in book
(arming;' but ills true, beyond question,
of those who anxiousIy investigate new
melhods, and s gre 10 pains III liberal el-
turls to excel in the noble art of making
two blades Of grass grow where one grew
before Tue science Of farming, like
that of chemistry, is as yet only in its A.
B. G. and every man who records new
and moi as yet an understood facts. con.
(ers benefits whose results cannot.be 100
highly estimated. This is, of course: ill.,
tended for those who not only wiite, but
communicate the results 10 The world in
print. And it is to be hoped thai every
farmer who can form pot hooks and tell
plain facts in plain way will do this oc-
casionalIy. A single fact lot fall in the
county paper may, like grain Of seed,
take root and produce and incalculable
crop both in a literal and fguralive
sense. ,.
But even those farmers who have no
ambition to behold their thoughts in type
may reap incalculable benefit from oc.
casionally noting down their observations
and chroncing according to the best Of
their abilities such facts in a farmers ex-
perence as may strike them as curious
and profitable Few who are not in the
habit Of setting down their thoughts in this
manner with the pen can realize the de-
gree to which the mind in few months,
so to speak, educate itself. The habit
steadily preserved in, strengthens, the
; memory, Quckens the observation and
,, refines the mind, 1t causes facts in daily
experience to be remembered which
would otherwise he forgotten, and not un-
frequently affords bulwark in argumen.
which is perfectly irresistible.
: Everywhere around The farmer there
are constantly occurring matters we'll
9 worth noting, and which would be OBJ
j served by one in the habit of writing
though they might escape the observation
/. of aother.--A vast proportion Of wha
n may seem trivial or commonplace to the
: farmer would be read with the keenest
relish by the one who is as Charles Laml
: was, in dirty city pent. One Of th'
: most interesting books which it was evel
our fortune to peruse was literal plair
It journal of this nature, in which the far
: merwho kept it had, by advice, 3nSte'
:, down what occurred to him through ih'
e year.
}, Yes--write by all means. Those who
!, write will read, and those who read arr
! on the right road towards educating them
J., selves and their children. There az,
e many men who cannot spell and. who's
e hand wiring is Of the crabbedest: bu
none gifted with common sonse and ,pny
It sort Of hand, who cannot write to tRei
of own advantage ; i not to the worlds.,