American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-12-09
ESTABLlSHElJ IN /, 1926.
soclnhiIlir Amour rayr,er..

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Of Horace GSesly, at The AgIriesltursl
Fair in Cornerssille, Indiana afsw months !
ago. They arc particularly aPpiicabls 70 |
country farmers. but may be read with
profit BY the deniEsns ofiowrs.~ af~
u / raDk amongths ntgYnt needs Of our
Agriculture morerintim4te and brotherly /
iprrcourse amohg our neighhoring farmers
and >. their families. / apprsbspd. that !
we are to day the least seciAhle pso- |
ple on earth, and that this is. especially i
rus OF our agricultural. districts. Tie /.
idle and dissipated are gregarious; buteur |
Industrious, sober. thrifty farming pohula- |
stion enjoy loo little ofssch qtber's seeieiy.
La The Old world forrthe most part the u,
lers Of the soil 1.-Two 10 vilagesso or haplris,
surrounded at distances varying pom ten
rods to tire miles. blythe lands they icul-
iyated and SOM times owned, When ihe
dag IS lator is over. they gather in good
gealher, on the village green, under
spreading tree or IN some inviting
grove. and song and story. conversation
and II ooDlight dance, srs the cDesp sf
lace OF their priyatiops, their lsbors, and
their cares But our American larpS are
islands, separated by seas Of forrest and
I fencing, and our farmers, their Families,
and lahorers, rarely see those living
mile or two away. save when they pass
in the road. or meet on Sundays in chur
ckes.f THIS isolation has mauy 'lissdvan
taces. prominent among which are the arti
cIes it ENTERPRISES tolthr adoption Of impro-
we'd processes and hsrpy suggestions.
As ''iron snarpeneth iron" so the sim
pie coming togather Of neighb 'rs and
\ friends Observation-Disclosures accel-
leratss tkesprocess Of ihinking. The far
mer not merely prs6tsby the nsrvtion'
4 of T. is utiqhbofs' experience and Pxpsri-
mepts in this that fi-ld OF pro'uctIon-
he gains quite as muehby the stimulus given
TO his desire for improvement as by the
faculties afforded foF gratifying that desire
It is wei, that heshould be enabled {
share the benefits Of otbsrs' observations
and schievmpnis: it is even better thai h
shoul he melted TO observe and acheiv'
li foy himself ii b'-r .s9si r1ssf"
; But, more than all else, il is importan
D | that he shoulh now and then be lifted ou
of the duA routine of plowing. Iiling ar'
resping--lhat he 81 ould he 'emiBded tha
t ..'thp liIe is moIe than meat land that tn
! growing OF grain and rass, the a"qu'sltio
0 Of fl cks and heards. are means Of living
not the ends Of life. Especially it Is i'm
portant to give more social, traterna
intellectual aspect to our rural economy
= in view Of the needs and craving Of tt
g rising generation. who educated 100 little
: enjoy solitude and their own thoughts, to
much 10 enddra tie life OF oxen. are heiu
e nfitted by their. very arquirem@nts III
u rural exis'auce which satisfied their le:
D intellectual .l-ss culriH ated grandfatherr.- =
e 1t is the most melancholy feature our pref
n ent social condition that very few Of OF
Z, bright. active, iuqniring. intellectual yout
J. are satisfied to gov up and settle dow
farmers. Afteral the eioduehce 'Uf poetl
1t. tha, has been lavisbed upon the farmer
It vocation, its independence, its seeurit
lis its digpify. its quiet. lis happiness The
I'D are not many decidedly clever youth, eyj
al in the HOUSEHOLDS Of farmers. who are .
be liberattIy choosing the farmers calling
preferable to all others Hundreds Dr.
ad or settle into Agriculture because tn
r. canaot acquirs professional training,
n be canse they hate to study. or becat
he they cannot get trusted for stock
ee GOODS. or for some one Of a hundred o,f
OF such reasons; very few because they q
pit eidedly prefer this lifeto anyother. '''.l
IF. Advertise in the same paper TO moro
2 for clerk in astore and for a man to wo
1T a farm, the wages IN eac6 case being I
~ same ,andyou will have twenty appfeatic
20 for the iorT1er place to one for the iatt
\. This fact argues 4 great error somewht
n and. as Idon't believe it is IN human pa'I
10 nor in that Provileniial necessity Viii
~ REQUIRES most OF us TO be farm.rs. l m,
, believe it's to be detected in argument q
= conditions under which farm labor is p'
as ! formed. We must study out the 'det'
~. md amend 1t. When the erdrai neighb,
: hood shall have become most social. a
the farmers home mote i"leileetual7=%h %h
biz the hest petiodicals. hot only eAericul'u
ess but others also, shall be found on Ills ev'
les ing table, and his hired man invited
Fas profit by them-Ghe general repuenat
" Of intellectual youth to iArmihg viii dis
'ck pear. .,b.,, 80, 's,,ss,J ~
Of Nor can I refrain from Insisting OF
beautifying Of the Farmers homestead
one Of the most needed reforms ia our
ith' fficaltrraf economy. We Americans
on people, do less to render our homes
am lrsctive than any other people Of &c
oy means on earth, And fOrthis thete il
Vu much excuse. L. a-stYT lssag.h 4
go We are .rollipg slones,p which b
sue not yet found time TO gather any grac
moss. We are on our march from Wes
me Europe. 10 the shores Of the Pacific,
ah, haya haul,el from time to tima by the
,w- hut not yet, settled !, 4 That sacred and
the der.attschmsnt to Home which perry
, is all other human. breasts has but sleI
/. 4 hold upon -us.--Tbere are--not many
. y. Who would. not sell the. house Overihis
syS heari iG he were offered algncd prize II
ana Not oae7f d th ofusnow liv in the no
Whoes IN which we was bor0; moi half-soi
: esuai' u ,coa6aeHtly expect to die iAahep homes
!, IF now ccupy. Hence we cannot beck
: is ted TO plant trses. and train y!9es,,
i've. sci Towering shrubs, as we might 90
NV 6nsts 90