Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-15

DY the farmer, the mighty forest that still
covers much of our soil, and remember that
an thiS mas been raised by that vital power cell
by cell. You are constantly carrying off the
produce Of the soil. Do you expect year by
year to continue this process without return
ing to it in another form food to replenish its
wasted powers7
AS well might yon expect to drive your
horses day after day aud year after year with
out feeding them. You love to have fiue stock
You have some fine stock at this exhibition
And you have had some hero that was Just
going to say is ertra ordinary.
In order to have fine stock you must raise
good crops, so that you can feed your stock
we'll. / here remember an anecdote that will |
illustrate this point. My Grandfather was an
excellent farmer, he raised good crops, he
raised good stock. he was noted for having
fine horses, fine cattle, and fine hogs and
sheep. On one occasion farmer from a
neighboring county where they were as noted
for raising fine things in another sense OF the
word fine, (that is small ,as my Grandfather
was for his excellent stock, desired to pur-
chase one of my Grandfather's curly tailed
pigs; he sold him one. The farmer took it
home with him, treated it as he treated his
other pigs, that is, he turned II out to take care
of himself and consequently it soon ceased to
grow and its tail Strengthened out. The honest
farmer soon came back with the pig, complain
ing very heavily that he had been badly cheat
ed, for he said II was nothing but straight
tailed pig, and he had purchased it for a curly
tailed one. Now some kinds of stock are
much better than others, but no matter what
kind you have if you do not feed them we'll,
you will find they will not thrive well; their
tails will not curl.
Feed your soil well, feed your stock well,
and then you can feed yourselves aud children
well, both mentally and physically.
lfyour farms are so large that you cannot
tertilize them as you ought, sell off part, and
till the remainder twice the better, and you
Will be paid twice the better for it. little
land well titled is far better than broad acres
half cultivated. You have heard, perhaps, of
the old farmer and his three daughters, the
| eldest OF whom was about to be married, and
the old man mourned his inability to give
| her suitable marriage portion. A friend of
his advised him to give his daughter one third
OF his farm. But, says the old man, can
-a.arty wfTf starYe. MS Srrsia Eae,y s.t.sr
| than this, and he soon showed him that mere
| grain could be raised on two thirds of his land
than he was then raising on the whole of it,
He married his daughter, and gave her one
| lhlrd OF his land, as marriage portion. He
went to work with new spirit, cleaned up his
fence rows, drained his marshes, plowed deep
| aud iertilized well, and soon he realized the
fact that he was raising more grain than he had
ever done. BY and by his second daughter
married--as daughters you know will marry,
when they get good chance, and sometimes
when the chancei is not any better than itshOuld
be--he divided his land again, improved his
method of cultivation, and still increased his
crops. II is not adding field to field that
makes farmer rich.
NOW, Farmers, do you see nothing in your &C.
cupston ennobling2 Is there nothing in the pull
verifying the fertizing of the soil, or the growth
oil plants, worthy OF the attention ofthemOst vig5
Il fnhR IL
and lnvigorating country air. There you trace
the finger OF the Deityin the swelling seed, the
unfolding leaf, and the opening bossom.--
| There you eau see your Maker as he rides on
the whirwind, plays with the glittering thun-
derbolt, or directs its fiery path through the
heaven; spor,s with the genial sunbeam, as it
| opens the dormant buds of spring, ripens the
| g"lden grain of harvest, or gives flavor to the
nectarious fruits of autumn. There you can
expand your physical frames, cultivate your
intellectual faculties, If you will, and cultivate
| Your moral powers. Oh give not up such
privileges as these, for the uncertainty of
merchants life, or the intricacies of lawyers
profession or the slavery of physicians prac-
tice. Fathers, have you noble sons Train
them for your noble employment. Lot not
your hills and valleys complain to you, COM
plain to you that you have given up q good
shepherd or sturdy plowman, to supply some
country town with petty lawyer, or broken
merchant. 1t is true that this Is a progressive
and active age, and l want to see agriculture
progr ess wi tn the times. But this cannot be
'done without an effort; you mast go on stirring
up and agitating the subject, learning lesson
from nature.
BY ceaseless action all that Is subsistt,
Constant rotation OF the unwearied wheel
That nature rides upon maintains her health
Her beauty, and her fertility. She breads
| An instants pause, and lives but while she
lts own revoisency upholds the worlds
Winds from all quarters agitatc the air,
And fit the limpid element for use,
Else noxious. Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams,
All feel the treshening impulse, and are clean
BY restless undulation. Fen the oak
| IhrlVes by the rude conclusion of the storm ;
lie seems indeed indignant, and to feel
The impression ofthe blast with proud disdain,
browning as If in his uEconcious arms,
lie held the thunder; but the monarch
| owes his firm stability to what he scorns.
More fixed below, the more disturbed above
me law, by which all creatures else are bound
Binds man the lord of all.''
MURDER IN MONTGOMERY CoUNFY-A Wo-
| MAN NEARLY DEoAPITATED BY HER HUSBAND
ARREST AND CONFESSION OF THE MuRpERER,
One Of the most shocking tragedies that we
nave heard of for long time, occurred on
Monday morning, in Upper Merton township,
montgomery county, about one mile west OF
Norristown. The scene of it was a tenant house
belonging to Capt. A. Shanelino, and occupied
~ man named Thomas Kilby, his wife, Mary
htlby, and their three young children.
AT an carly hour in the morning Kilby went
TO the house of some neghbors and aroused
| them, telling them his wife had been murdered
by three negroes. lie also went himself in
search OF constable to arrest tho alleged