New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-19

ara oepth OF your soil. Won ar taNiNe -'
gran-crop long grain VII grow m u''r 'o'
furss- iha: each busLel exported from your STATE,
your County renders your -o absolutely poorer aud
that he Iroorss mu-t Ed in utter exhaustion Au' So
rlty; Tor you are inpartns little or nothing to repay
the soil or e-e heavy and cou-.an, drafts upon It, In
view Of thi. mistaken policy the grand Improvements
recertly made or row promised in ArricltuTal Va
chinery cas. before them shadow that s absolutely
baleful In the old day.. when tie plow was iorked
hickor, with the orgrr prong for beam and the
shorter for coulter and with other implements o; Ike
rudeness and neficicncy, the tiIare might be-and
was--very unskful ard erroneous, but the earn was
too slightly scratched to be by any means exhausted
But Tow tina; we are On the eve OF Steam Flowing
and corre.pordent advances the old safeguards against
I tie extreme Consequences Of human iSn"ranee and
perver>eness o>s their efficiency We talk, FOR in-
stance Of certain lonccultivated portions Of the sea-
board Slave States as worn out. exhausted ruined.
worthless: when they have really never been Dis
turbed and Of course are not at all injured by cuva-
ton except for tie fr four five inches below their
surface. So measurably with the past cultivation Of
tile Great West But when the Steam Pow comes
sroirg and tearing through your great prayes, turn
ing up and pulverzing their soil to depth Of two and
even three feet then YOU will realize grHt crops at
first with welcome security against both flood and
drouth, bu; paralleled by exhaustion of the soil
more rapid and thorough than tie world has ever
known. Then you will understand why feel and say
that a European market for yonr Grain and Neat is
snare and a 10 youthat II gives TO your industry
the drnkards exhilaraion that must be followed by
the drunkard's prosraton and despsr-that no coun-
try did really prosper by the proiuc-
tion of rude bulky staples, and their exchange in dis
tant foreign lands for the finer fabrics and tissues
which civilized comfort and fashion requre--that
every acre Of this State Of Indiana would be worth far
more this day if bale Of cloth case Of silks could
never more reach US from the Old World. For every
year of the present of Industry and Trade is IL
mnishing the essential value of your soil; and the
more bonnteous your haryests the greater Is this atal
depreciation. Let me hope at least that some means
Of arrcstng il will be fond your fields shall have
shared the fate Of those Of too many the seaboard
out of which nearly all that j. valuable has been ex-
tracted in the shape Of Wheat, Corn, Tobacco, and
Live Stock and shipped away to increase the fertility
of countries which, because they are predominanty
Manufacturing therefore intelligent, thrifty and con-
s,artly receiving and absorbing Agricultural sta
pes from abroad already the most fertile and pro-
iuctiye on earth
VIII rank among the urgent needs Of our Agricul-
ture more intimate and brotherly intercourse among
our Ne g boring farmers and their families. appre-
hend that We are to-day tie least social people on
earth aud that this ir especially true of our purely
agricultural districts. The idle and the dssipated are
g:egarious but industrious, sober, thrifty Farming
population enjoy too little Of each others society. la
the Old World for the most part tine tilers of the soil
live in villages or hamlets, surrounded, at distances
varying from ten rods three miles, by the lands they
/ cultivate and sometimes When the days Ia
Dor is over they gather in good weather on the vii
lage green, under spreading tree in some inviting
grove, and song and story, conversation and moon
light dance the cheap solace of their priyaons,
their abors, and their But our American farms
are islands separated by of forest and fencing and
our farmers, their families, and laborers, rarely
those living mile two away, save when they pass
in the road, meet on Sunday in church. This sola-
ton has many disadvantages, prominent among which
the obstacles it interposes to the adoption of inn
proved processes and happy suggestions. A. Iron
'sharpeneth iron," the simple coming together OF
neigbors and friends brgLtens their inteects and
CELEBRATES the process Of thinking. The farmer not
merely profits by the narratons ofhis neishbors expe
rierce and experiments in this or that field of prouc
on-he gains quite as much by tue stimulus given to
lis desire for improvements by the facilities afforded
for gratifying tla desire Ii o well that he should be
enabled to share the benefits of Others observations
and achievements it is even better that he should be
ncted to observe and achieve for himself But, more
than all else il is important that ne should now and
then be lifted out Of the dull routine of plowing ting
and reaping-tlat he should be reminded that " the
life is more than meat" and that the growing OF
grain and grass the acquisition of focks and herds are
means of living, rot tie ends Of life. Especially is it
important TO give more Social fraterna, intellectual
aspect to rural economy, in view OF the needs ami
cravings Of tire rising generation who educated too lit
tie to erjoy solitude and their thoughts too much
to endure the life of oxen, being united by their
very requirements for tie rural existence which salts
fed their less Intellectual ess cultivated graniiathers.
1t is the melancholy feature of present social
condition that very few Of bright active nqurinS,
intellectual youth are satisfied to grow up and settle
down farmers. After ali the eloquence aud poetry that
lave been avi.hed npon the farmers yocation-ts n-
dependence it, security it, dignity, its quiet, it, hap
piIess-there rot many decidedly clever youth,
even in the households Of farmers, who are deiibe-
raely choosing the farmers calling preferable 10 all
others. Hundreds drift or settle into Agriculture be-
tley cannot acquire professional training, or
because they hate to study, because they oanno.
&c, trusted for stock of goods or for some one OF
hundred other such reasons very few because they de-
cidedly prefer this Life to any other. Advertse IN the
paper Tomorrow for q clerk III <ore aud Tot
To work farm, the wages II each case beng tHe
same and you Will have twenty applications ior the
former place to one for the latter. This fact argues
grave eIlor somewhere aud, ~ don't believe 1t l. in
human nature nor in that Pgoyilenai necessity
requires most o; to be farmers, must believe It is
10 be detected in I'll, arran n.ements and conditions
der which farm labor j. performed. We must study