Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-10-28

learnedy in books and papers forhe last ten years,
and it is still being discussed, notwithstanding
good, common-sen,e farmer in New jersey has
been hauling out his manure il the fall and early
winter, and applying it then as top dre.sing with
uniformly good results, and all who have followed
his example have met with similar success. yet the
old discussion goes on. Why not stop and call it
settled until experiment shows something better?-
| If Jeremiah Thompson Of New JERSEY can thus
raise larger crops than his dsputing neighbors,
James A. Corse and all the farmers of Marshall
County can do the same thug.
mention these things to shew that it is established
facts that make scientific farming in the true sense,
and that things of this kind should always receive
the farmers attention. This is the true agricultu-
raj education and every farmer needs it, and if he
don't get it he never will take the first premium at
fairs, and not many dollars will the threshold
of his pocket. But give him Observation to take
note of and collate facts TO the best methods Of
farming, Skill to apply them to practice, Industry,
to "plow deep while sluggars Sleep" and Persever-
ance to make thorough work of all he undertakes,
undiscouraged by storm drought, and his success
is sure. He'll take your premiums. He'll coin
money. You will usually find him man of liberal
and enlarged views, intelligent and honest. His
education is such that he can appreciate the beau
tilul in the products of nature and of art His
house is not merely four brick or wooden walls,
it is farmers home, tastelully situated, surrounded
by tall and graceful elms, and NAPLES, and flower
garden and lawn, fit Paradise for the Peri Of Ara
bian song and story. He does not believe with an
old-tme predecessor that education is valueless
because ste COWS will give none more milk, tie
butter will pring none more moonish." Nor does
he believe Il a the ground occupied by Rose, or q
China Aster, or Honey-suckle ora Lilac bush, is
wasted land. They minister to the higher wants
of his nature and are hence useful as his cabbage
and potatoes. He has learned, too, that the best
varieties of grains and fruits the cheapest, that
they occupy no more ground, and with the same
attention will produce about doub . as much as a
small, inferior variety. In short he is The Model
Farmer. To him let mobiles and arstocrats do
homage, and crowned heads in all their ROYALTY
knowledge their inferiority. When our Agricultu-
raists are all such, then will come the Farmers
Jubilee; then will be his golden age; then may he
sing, while hundreds and thousands unite to swell
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the chorus.
"a farmers life . the life for me,
| / own love it dearly,
| And everv season s full of gee,
! | take its labor checrly;
To pow or SOW, or reap or NOW,
Or in the barn to thresh, Sir,
| All s one to me, plainly see,
Twill bring in health and cash, Sir"
There is another point which l wish to notice
and l am DONE 1t is question which often pre-
sents itself to my mind This country from the
Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific, is agricultural
country. Many portions of it seem especially the
home of the tiler of the soil. These homes are
being rapidly occupied even to the larthest West
The sound of the ofthe pioneer is the first sig
mai Of advancing civilization. The farmers of the
land are the great bulwarks of the nation They
drive the of empire, they WELD the destinies of
the Repushc. AZ is the Agricultural community
so is the Nation. When farmers are prosperous,
the nation is prosperous; when they depressed,
the nation is depressed. Weotenfo forget this. We
are apt to regard the nations interests as depending
more on laws, and banks and tariffs, and parties.
The politician the professional man We are prone
to regard possessed of greater power in the COM
munity and in the State, than the plain, unassumng
farmer. L hold in my hand watch. The first
thing that attracts my attention is its exterior.
the hands upon its face pointing TO the figures
which mark the progress of the day. But oiwhat
avail, the hands and face, and outer Workmanship
without the works within. There is the handspring
which drives the whole, and out of sight though il
is, the aristocratc hands upon the face are worth
ers of community They drive the whole machine |
~ of civil society. What We shall be in the dim
future before VS., depends more upon them than
aught else besides. If they enlightened, in
teligent and virtuous we shall be prosperous and
a happy people, If they ignorant, depraved aad
vicious, we shall be an unhappy people, ending Our
career at last in the great slough of national and
moral bankruptcy. When think of this, look
down the future and ask, can it be that man will
cultivate the soil. and neglect the tller himself
Is the codao the valley of more worth than an
immortal mindl Is not ''One living mind worth
more than a dead universe?"-and then if see
mans material interests absorbing his spiritual, if
NE great lessons which Heaven has been for six
Thousand years teaching the world, is lost upon it;
the lesson that the intellectual and moral nature
of man is the one thing precious in the sight of
God and therefore, until this nature is cultiv vated,
and enlightened, and purified, neither opuience,
nor power, nor learning, genius, nor domestic
sanctitv nor the holiness of Gods al.ars ever
be sale;'' if | see vast army of Ignorance, led
on by the hosts of Crime, scattering frebrands,
arrows and death, and rushing on as they gather
strength in an overmasteing assault on Liberty and
Law, then cry 'Woe, woe, to the citadel of
freedom! How shall We preserve the temple of
liberty2' But l look again down the future.
see another army now; the hosts ofIsnorance and
Crime are gone, and in their stead is army of
educated laborers Peace spreads her wand ever
the scene. Plenty dispenses her richest treasures.
and Happiness comes down from her home above
and takes up her abode in the midst of that runner
Gus throng. Intelligence and virtue dwell there,
and there is the sublimest sight of earth,-a free
people, guiding intelgently and safely, the affairs
of a mighty nation. Be the latter picture ours, and
Al fha lat