Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-15
ADDEss OF Il. oLARKsoN TAYLOR,

Delivered before the agricultural Society of Neu
Castle county, Thu sday aftertoon.
FARMERS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY 1T has
been said that whoever makes two blades OF
grass grow where only one grew, is benefac-
tor of the human race.
Farming rightly followed is the occupation
OF all occupations, the highest, the noblest, the
best that man can engage in, and requires as
much mind to carry Is on successfully as any
other pursuit.
In order to obtain some notion of the higt
rank OF farming ameng the business occupation,
oil man, lot 1t be remembered that every ANNA
| on our globe, man himself included, is depen-
dent for existence on the produce Of the earth,
either by feeding upon that produce immediate.
~ or upon those animals that have been sup
| ported by it,.
| Hence, as the fertility ofthe earth is increas-
Gu and food rendered more abundant, animals
multiply and happiness is augmented, for
wherever there is life there is enjoyment.
inc farmer thus comes, in measure, to CO.
operate with the Deity in the diffusion of life
and happiness around him, and he feels the no.
pie dignity of his calling, and the felicity re-
sultlng from conscious effort to perform a
useiul part in the sphere in which Providence
has placed him.
It's Importance is also shown by the fact that
1t was mans first business to dress and keep
| garden. He nextbecomes a tiller of fields and
then planter Of vineyards.
Man, says Hugh Miller, in this great depart
ment of industry is what none of his predeces.
sors ever were before him, afellow worker win
| The creator, mighty improver Of creation
lie adds to the beauty Of the flowers which he
lakes under his charge, to the delicacy and fer
unity OF the fruits; the seeds of the wild grasse
become wheat, rye, oats, and barley unde
his cultivation. The green herbs grow grea
OF root and bulb, and succulent of leaf and top
the wild produce OF nature spreads under hi.
RI. has H.. -.
multiply their petals, the sour green cral
swells out intn the delicious golden riuded ap.
PIE, streaked with crimson the productions o.
MS Kitchen garden strangely metamorphosed
10 serve the uses OF his table, bear forms un-
known to nature.
The Ok and Horse learn to assist him in the
labors ofthe field, the udders of the COW and
goat dlstend beneath his care to twice theil
| natural size, supplying him with milk and the
other various products of the dairy. The fleece
OF the sheep becomes finer in texture and Ion
ger in fibre in his folds, and oven the indocilt
SILK worm spins in his sheltered csnserv atorie
and amongst the mulbcrries which he hai
planted, larger, brighter, and more glisteninl
crown.
Man is then the creature worker of the work.
It's one created being, that taking up the worI
OF the adorable Creator carries ii on to highe
results ana nobler developments, and finds
neld for his persevering ingenuity and skill il
every province in which his Maker has expa
tiated before him.
Why then, my young friends, do so many
OF you long to leave the open fields and inyig.
Grating breezes of the country, to seek employ.
ment In measuring tape, puzzling your brains
with the intricacies OF law, or dealing out nau
seating drugs7
NOW l do not wish any controversy witt
those who choose to sell tape provided theft
souls do not become as narrow as the tape oil
as short as the yard stick, but my desire is tina
you may understand the true dignity of YOU
present employment, and remain where yor
are to elevate and honor your calling.
"For tits the mind that makes the body rich,
And as the sun breaks through the darses
clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit
what, is the jay more precious than the lark
Because his feathers are more beautiful
| Or is the adder better than the eel.
| Because his painted skin contents the ever,
1t is the man that hono-s his business moi
| the business that honors the man. Ills with
| you to say whether your business is honorable
| or not, for the man that guides the pillow NAV
be Cincinnatuss or n Washington, or he may
be brother to the werm he treads upon.
The science of agriculture, and the art Of
tllling the soil, are in their infancy, and they
have yet to reach heights aud states Of per
lection unknown to us, that will astonisb
| coming generations. IL is a lamentabIe fact
that the cultivation Of the soil has not kept
pace with the progress of the age. From some
| cause many of our farmers refuse to avail
| themselves of the means ofadyancement placed
within their reach. Through prejudice they
stand alooffrom exhibitions like these, and ex.
clude from their fre-sides the agriculture
publications of the day, saying in actions, II
not in language, our fathers far1ned vel
| enough for us, and because they placed the
corn in one end of the bag and the stone in the
! other to go to mill, we will do likewise. II
/ they happen to have son of more than ordi-
| nary promise they send him off to rub against
| the walls ola college, to become lawyer OF
\ a physician.
Now, my friends, why this prejudice against
associations like this, and agricultural Journalist
You all like we'll enough to meet together at
vendues and at the stores of your respective
neighborhoods and there talk of your crops.
your stock, and your modes of cultiyati on.
You are quite willing in this small way to profit
by the experience of your ncighbors. These
exhibitions are but the practical expansion Of
that idea; instead Of one neighborhood, We
have the combination OF several to exhibit the
results of their labor and to make common
stock Oftheir experience. Throw away your
prejudice then, and ifthese exhibitions are not
what you would have them, take hold of the
matter and make them what they ought to be.
Let us now examine a little into the dutiej, of
farmer to see If his occupation does not call
for varied and active powers of mind.
In the first place his ground must be put in
good condition. 1t is more than useless to
SOW seed upon soil not ready to receive it. If
the soil has been previously cropped, il not
only needs pulyerizing, but those elemecn Is
that have been removed from the soil by fb