Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-30
farmer S department,
FARMERS DISCONTINUED.

| 1here Is an Intrinsic desire In the breast
of most persons to leave the noise and con-
fusion Of crowded places, and retire at some
time to the peaceful village and the quiet of
rural life. The tradesman and artizan, weary
of their confinement, long for wider field
of action, while the merchant harrassed by
the exposure of his property to the tickle
elements, and the danger TO those who go
down to the sea in ships, sees in the distance
the evening of his days embellished by the
comforts clustering around a home in the
country. ...-.- ...-.. ..-...-.....
Others possess taste for home on the
farm from early youth, and when separated
from it, are ever elevating the old roof tree
and the happy haunts Of childhood above all
the pomp and glitter Of cities, and the trap
pings of fashionable life.
For US, the farm has ever had this charm,
and its implements are familiar to our hands,
and the opinions we express have been form
ed on the farm, while engaged in its labors
a-i enjoying its pleasures. We look back
to its renovated precincts with as much ten
der solicitudc as does the graduate to his be-
loved alma mater, and live over our youth
again in the recolections of its delightful la
bors, scenes and recrcations. But since those
times, great changes have taken place in the
modes of cultivating the soil, as in most of
the businesses men pursue. Facilities in
printing and publishing have kept pace with
other improvements of the age. The exact
experiments of the scholar, the accurate OBJ
servations of the farmer, dissertations, pam.
phlets and newspapers have been multiplied
without NUMBER Through the magic power of
the press. In these have been discussed the
manual operations of the farm the plowing,
planting, haying, draining, subsoiling, and
nature of the soil; and, although much may
we'll be said upon each of these fruitful top
les, we shall not occupy the space with more
than casual reference to any of them.
1t was once supposed that the profits of
the farm, and the beauty of the homestead,
depended upon the hands, alone. That er-
ror has had its day, wrought its evil and de-
partad, we trust, never to return. A better
opinion now prevails, that laJor to be profit
able, must be guided by Intelligence, and it
is of the importance of that intelligence that
we propose to speak.
On the rugged mountains and beautifully
sweeping wales of New England-on the
broad prairics of the West, and tho sunny a.
cres of the South, the same causes are opor-
ating against an earnest aud hearty love of
rural life, and its occupations.
We assume the fact, that great discomfort
exists in relation to that life; that young men
and young women are dissatisfied with the
employmcnts of the farm, and are seeking in
speculative schemes that aliment for the
mind, which they have failed to find in ru-
raj occupations, and quiot home,
If we can suggest remedy for this evil,
We shall deem it of more Importance than to
throw new light on the common business of
the fields, and the barn, or to enforce any
principles of vegetable or animal existence.
Large numbers commence farming, with
out other capital than their own physical
force, directed by their native good sense
They succeed in establishing pleasant
home, and in educating and rearing fami-
ly, through long patient industry, and care.
full economy; and this is the manner in which
those engaged in mercantile affairs, who
have become wealthy, have acquired that
wealth, by interrupted effort, both in acquir-
ing and saving. And the cases are some
what rare, where the farmer of good health
and habits, fails of establishing an attractive
home, and acquiring competence; while it
has been ascertained that out of every one
hundred who have entered upon mercantile
pursuits in the largest city of New England,
upwards of ninety have failed The start
ling but we'll authenticated fact should have
an influence on young men embarking in
business, and upon young women, too, about
making alliances which can only end with
life; for they are equally interested in the
welfare and happiness of the family.
Farm work requires a capital in coin, in
talents, and in muscle and sinew, as we'll as
in merchandising and navigating the ships Of
commerce. When this capital is invested,
farm work is no more a labor of drudgery
than any other-it is not half so much. If
this be drudgery, what shall We call the
confinement of the law. w.officc and the Court
room, or the Judges bench What the
dull routine of the merchants duties behind
the counter, with his daily liability to pro-
tested notes and bankruptcy? What the
daily task of the mechanic, happy If his rolea-
sed after ten hours toll, or that of opera
tors in the cotton-mill, summoned by bell
and encased in codes of regulations? No
it is not the employment of the fields that is
drudgery-it is the mans mind that is en-
slaved. That mind does not spring from
the sod, buoyant with life and intelligence,
searching and inquiring in the wonderful
operations above, beneath and around him.
Let him turn his thoughts to Chemistry in
its relation to his employment, and he will
soon be convinced, that no man has yet lived
long enough to understand the strange yet
beautiful operations constantly carried on in
his trees, plants, flowers, and animals. The
lawyer is tied to his terms, and the merchant