Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-06-24
TX. Marvels Address to Farm ers


Donald G. Mitchell ok. MaryeD. re-
Gently delivered the annual address be-
fore the Connecticut State Agricultural
Society. From a condensed report in
in the Hartford papers we select The fol-
lowing admirable closing paragraphs
There is something worth living for.
beside money. That is very good but
it is not all. With the rest, let us raise
a crop of good ideas. While you are
farmers, remember that YOU are men.
with duties and responsibilities. Live
down the old brutal notion that farmer
must be uncouth, uneducated, and un-
thlnklng-a mere plodder.
You are brought into immediate con-
tact with the great heart of civilization.
4ou cannot get out Of the buzz OF the
toiling world. The trill of the wonder
working wires and the rumble of the To-
connective (the thunder of nations)
come to your once-secluded hill side.
Move toward better life. Do not
keep your boys cornshelling in the long
winter evenings. Make your farm a
place that your sons and daughters can
not help loving. Cultivate the trees.
They are Gods messengers. Don't say
that you care nothing for looks. You
do care, else why did you build that two
story white house, with blinds and Gu
pola into which you never go? Or why
did you, years ago, carefully brush your
coat or pluck up your shirt collar, when
you We're starting on Sunday evening,
to that good woman who shares your
home?
Care much more for books and pic
lures. Don't keep solemn parlor into
which you so but once month with the
parson, or the sewing society. Hang
around your walls pictures which shall
tell stories of mercy, hope, courage,
faith and charity. Make your living
room the largest and most cheerful in
tho house snt the place ha such that
when your boy has gone to distant
lands, even when, perhaps, he clings to
single plank in the lonely waters OF the
wide ocean, the thought of the still home
stead shall come across the desolation,
bringing always light, hope and love.
Have no dungeons about your house
no room you never opeA-no blinds
that are always shut.
Don't teach your daughters French
before they can weed a flower bed, or
cling to a sidesaddle; and daughters!
do not be ashamed of the pruning knife
Bring to your door the richest flowers
from the woods; cultivate the friendship
of birds; scorn the scamp that levels his
murderous gun at the blue bird or the
robin. Study botany, learn to love ma
turc, and seek higher cultivation than
the fashionable world would give yuu.
AsHES.-No farmer can too highly
value ashes as manure. Not hand
ful should be wasted. Every plant re-
quires potash in its growth. II it is not
found i'll the soil, or has been exhaust
ed by cropping, it must be supplied by
an application of ashes. An acre of
wheat requires thirty-two pounds of
potash; barley, sixty eight; and red
clover one hundred and forty pounds.
These crops cannot come to perfection
without it, and if nature has not sup
piled it, farmer must, or fail in his
crops. All our readers, we presume,
have observed the luxurious growth of
wheat or clover on the site Of burned
brush-heap. The location of an old
"charcoal pitt will be visible in crops
for thirty or forty years. A barrel Of
leached ashes may be made to add more
than barrel to the yield of field Of
wheat.-PraS,'ie Farmer. p