The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-06-13
Asrieulur..rh. we.,.rh.p.


Agriculture, noblest of arts, and nm
derlaying the foundations of natioaal ms
perity and greatness, is theme exbaps,
less as the granite lodges of New HAM
shire, or the salt surges of the bOaa
Pacific, which lave the western shores or
our glorious sisterhood of States: and :,
well worthy, in any portion of cur com
mon country, the ablest efforts of A.
pen, poetical and scientific. In KanS..
who depends mainly upon such resouro,,
for her progress, the field is wide for bo,h
theoretical and practical research into tbo,
most useful branch of industry. and
comparison between her relative adv.,,.
ges, in this respect, and those Of NAM
perhaps all, of the more populous and ola
settled Eastern OF New England States
may not at this time be void of ;ntero..
The Kansas immigrant has priyations
to encounter in entering upon possession
of his heritage beneath the bright skies
OF the Chant West; but they are slight
and tissue-like in comparison with II.
dangers surmounted, the difficulties ovsr
come by our pioneer fathers of the Green
Mountains or the Old Bay State. The
dense forest and the rugged hill, the say.
age attack and the incursion of wild beasts
barred rapid advance to the hardy so1
filler, whose lot in those troubulous timeS
was such as we but dream of now su,
rounded as we are by all the appliances Of
science and art. Fields then were to be
cleared, trees leveied and rocks removed.
ere the "claim" of the farmer of ne
olfen time would grow golden with the
ripening harvest, and the suns rays light
those erst secluded glades. The iron
horse sent not forth its shrill scream. as if
in defiance, as, laden with the products of
the soil, its heavy train swept swiftly on
to ready market; nor yet did the huge
wheels of the "fre canoe" ruffle the
placid surface of the Tappan Zee, or the
smoke from its furnace float away OH the
breeze. The numbering wagon bore their
surplus produce to not always remune-
rative sale, and the homespun fleece pro-
tected the early agriculturalist of the New
World from the fierce blasts of winter
Such were the farmers of times agone, in
the far East. Now they have every adj
vantage which science can devise-mar-
kets in any direction, and a demand for
every product of the soil. Still, We of
the queenly West claim, and rightfully,
too, we think, superiority.
Our broad, beautiful prairies, stretching
away to the south and westward, where
From morn till eve the sun has seen,
But one unbroken world of green.''
dotted anon by clusters of trees, and
watered by winding streams-will never
suffer, even in their virgin freshness, by
comparison with the cultivated fields Of
the Original thirteen" the first stars in
Americas coronal.
He who comes to Kansas as tiller Of
the soil, a follower of the plough and
harrow, Will here find a channel for the
energy which in the East seemed almost
futile, and for efforts there almost i'm
practicable to make. There are few for
ests to clear, and, indeed, few difficulties
in the way of a successful prosecution of
the profession followed by the jewellers in
Eden. Upon that profession rests the
future of Kansas-her prosperity and her
rank among the States of the Union rests
in their hands. Who, then, in view of
such responsibilities, can doubt that Agri-
culture is the most ennobling of arts,
since in it all other branches of industry
have their origin, and from it derive their
suDDOrt?