The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-10-07

single vine of the strawberry or curraut
in a short ti,no you would be provided
] with these finest luxuries of summer.
These are Ii ms which can be / ID finitely
extended. 1t is wonderful how cheap
these ornaments and luxur;es are. A few
hours lab, r, a careful attention, and you
will hay, surrounded veur dwellings here
in the West with much that gives the
charm to New England cottage home.
/ have fen wondered that when the
blxarics which in the cities are purchased
at such an expense, arc SO WITHIN the
reach of the farmer, he takes SO little
pains to p, s,css II m. This culture Of
tho garden calls into play the intellect and
the taste, and hence seem like recreations
after the severcr labors of the field. What
though fewer number ofacres be plough
ell to give time FOR such duties. ''Twerc
| better SO. But usually this will not be
necessary. Again, the garden is the place
for experimenting. 1t there can be done
on a small scale with no lass in case of
failure. Here the character of your soil
can he tested; the products Of the various
seeds be compared, and the facts obtained
in this VA will oftentimcs guide YOU in
tue. culture Of your farm. Once more,
gardening always pays. b -.g-ate
In this labor Of adjoining and beautify
ing the ladies can DO much There IS in
womanly character aadelicaeyaof taste, en-
intuitive sense Of adaptation and q refine-
ment, which like that singular fc' G ty of
style in Horace, gives a marvellous grace
towhatevcr she touches. Ne hand can ar
range or a9o,n like hers. She is the
queen of horticulture in all that relateA
to the beautiful of that art. If she would
break through the conventional restraints
that impris, II hcr-the strict letter of that
old adagc, woman for the house and
man for tho field" and minglo somewhat
these lighter employments in the open
air with the moaotony of indoor life, it
would be the source of the keenest enjoy
ment and of physical health and beauty.
And somehow there is in these EMPLOY
nnents an influence that refines and puri-
fies, and ennob'es and SO, as has been
said, the flowers that blossom round the
doorway become suggestive of the won-
anly graces within. And SO, also, the
child who is brought up amid the breath
of flowers, and breathes in the atmos-
phere Of taste in his early years will ga
Their from these surroundings a finer tex
ture of spirit and more noble quality Of
soul.
/ am aware tho thought l have endea-
yored to enforce is heresy on change.
is valrlless in the market There are those
who regard everything with a utilitarian
eye, and can see no use in the beautiful.
70 such, that only has worth which has
material value, all else ceuats nothing.
Is it for nothing, then, that God has
covered the heavens with garniture of
loneliness, painting on the broad domo of
blue, colors which art cannot initiate i Is
it for nothing that he has spread out
to the eye a panorama of marvellous
beauty, of hill, and plain, and forest-and
traced among them all the rivers those
lines of silver mingling with the emerald
OF banks? Is it for nothing that be his
covered your prairies with flowers of every
hue and spotted your fields with fire and
gold! Out upon such doctrine. Tho
beautiful has its uses, as important to the
mind as food to the body. Beautify then
your dwellings not with the fixtures which
art can add, but with natures own adorn
manufacturers and leaves and overheard
ing trees. Beautify then your homes and
adorn their walls with shrubbery and
vines; employ labor-saying machinery and
have a library ut your command. The
employment Of the farmer is the most
ennobling, and none, would leave it to
engage in trade, were they aware of its
real dignity. Whatever may be the al
lurements of other walks of life, to be q
reading and thinking farmer, surrounded
with we'll cultivated farm, a tasty and
beautiful dwelling, is enough to satisfy
any reasonable mans aspiration for com
fort enjoyment, and competence:
There is world of agriculture wealth
i'll this great valley of the North West, as
vet undeveloped. Nature has, indeed
dispensed here her gifts with q lavish and
prodigal hand. Especially docs this por-
ton of country seem her peculiar fayoritc
With a soil unrivaled for its fertility
prairie and timber int2rmingled--wth an
inexhaustible forest around it, furnishing
lumber for your buildings and fuel for
your fires; with fine streams cutting it in
every direction; with q surface equally
removed from the hilly character of the
Eastern States, and the unvarying fatness
of the Illinois prairie, with a climate
healthy to an extraordinary degree; with
no local diseases and no swamps to create
miasmas; situated fayorably on ono of
the great ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of commerce;
with manlf curing &c lities, such as are
not often found at the West; and added
to these high-toned moral and cntcrpri-
sing population, and the prospect that ere
long you will have connections by railroad
with the great max Is Of the country
the future is rich with promise.
And when, with snch natural and ar.
tificial advantages, there is united a prop
or spirit of improvement, a scientific Gull
ture of the soil, regarding the beautiful
and elegant ms we'll as the useful, wide
spread liberal and intellectual spirit, an
| interest in agriculture IS a profession Of
| grandest Importance, and an earnestness
/ among farmers to take advantage of new
improvements i'll agricultural implements
and new discoveries in agricultural sci
ence, what visions Of rural beauty and