Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-10-28

but now since the door Tor lntermngng has been opened
the Anglo Saxon already exces her the manufacture of
crockery The greatest good only result to the greatest
number when the world and the people therein combine,
harmonic and associate concentrating all its knowledge
MEANS and energies to promote the greatest good of ALL
There be question of the superior advantages Of
united individual effort let associate and act
gcther whose interests and pursuits are alike and like the
well disciplined phalan they will overcome all obstacles to
their advancement.
Gold was announced deeply mbedded in the hills and
streams of modern and perhaps the rea land of Ophr;
an inspiration seized and prompted all men, seemingly to
DESIRES expanded hopes and the widest dreams of the
widest ambition; assocating in couple trio and all num-
bers seek and obtain the hidden a,lrean easures-ab
urng the quiet sweets Of domestic M the society of dearest
friends daring distance fatigue savage torure famine fell
disease and almost certain DEATH rivers turned and
mountains eveed and compelled yield their treasures to
united effort it evnces what may be done in better cause
for does bushe gold dug from the earth add as much to
the wealth OF the world the production of bushel
of potatoes Many volunteer in that has discovered
when late that it dazzes, gers and aures but to
ruin
Such interests have called in close contact the
learned professions, the merchant the mechanic who
gregae popuous Cities have long avaed themselves of
the benefits of asaocatingof coming together comparing
views communicating knowledge, and learning of each 9th
er-where all benefited by the intellectual treasures of
eachey have hourished and taken the ead whereas the
sparse agricultural community have till recently entered
into the spirit of assocang for the purpose Of maintaining
eqalty that respect With the really from
them derived all the substantial enjoymcns and supports
of le which the others are only destined to mend orna
Daent and embeLlish But union and combination in our
ranks beginning to be appreciated Notwithstanding
habtaons and abos isolated among the hills and dales
upon the banks Of the rivers and the plain; associations
formed farmers flock together and the cattle show the
stated fair the order of these tines and the many oble
specimens of animals improved implements of husbandry;
the choicest fruits and all other fine examples of the indus
trial arts that brought out these occasions
not the valued results of these glorious gatherngs
the bringing of men of similar pursuits ooether
with another to compare theories; their experience
their results and concusions these then known to all
then necessarily bound by the limited tradition Of
what their fathers aonetaught them they confined
to learn these results from their own individual experience
through whole veong fe Forget not then to assemble
yourselves together; the old adage that calculation is often
better than hard work here verified Reading and
versaton chief to knowledge and to the
latter have farmers been indebted mostly for theirs
Since the establishment of township libraries the opportu
nifty for instruction by reading has been brought every
mans door, # these well selected if their book
well filled with works that practica that throw light
upon the subjects that most regards their interests and their
every day business pursuits and ghborhood associations
formed discuss crticise and the theories and do
ngs of each; thereby encouraging spirit Of reading and
investigation in all who participate, good results will follow
Do not be sefconiden that know it all ourselves
that cannot be instructed by others in points al
though they may be less stored with general technical
knowledge than How will the traditional
whose education has been in the exclusive individual school
Of long ancestry amid nation Of such all about him.
plies of whom border the Mexican Rio Grand land
fair specimens the Michigan Rio Gand) who
did his fathers harness his he any cattle kind by
green hide chains to sharpened forked limb for plough
tied a stick the foreheads of to of these
animals all abreast by which establishment the surface of
the ground designed for cultivation scratched and
farm without limit fence is made produce all the
and buckwheat to keep life in four five individuals with
Al L
year We repeat how will the dongs of this traditional
compare with present enlightened and scientific
farmer You find him employed in making compost heaps
Of manure Transferring muck lime, refuse SALT bones,
ythng within his reach that possesses vegetable nutrment
his exhausted grounds to maintain the fertility of his
already productive fields draining his lands by sys
of under drains from 81 to feet below the surface
then plouging his lands from feet in depth getting
from to bounul crops from the same land annually IN
stead of the skeleton of one doing this with all the i'm
proved labor saving machines and Implements in
might 60 on describe his smooth fields his fences
straight and erect his trim barns extensive Sheds his water
works. his substantial cottage attractive for its elegant but
cheap finish and its just architectural proportions entwined
embowered with the honeysucke the and the woodbne
his fruit and flower garden all in proper trim and regular
y and symmetricay laid Who of us of grey hairs
strkngy sensible of the improvement of the present
the past in the knowledge and mode of agricultural
pursuits; in the plough the cutvaor the horse rake the
cradle and the reaper; the improved breeds of animals
horses hogs sheep and cattle by crossing; rotation Of crops
&C. All this evidences that persons have given
attention these matte they have studied led the way
Yet these tell that yetpoke in the dark both in
WHY wherefore-the rationale of