The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-10-14
,TG4R C0UN-Y, p, TsURsDAY, oeToBER u, lg5a.


up Of animals, and plants, and invisible
oxygen. Nature is as subtle as she is
strong. Her processes of decomposition
and reconstruction might be followed out
in higher grades Of existence, rank into
rank, to sentient beings They burn
with internal fire which wastes while il
works. The great agencies work in man
as in ALL
There is no porter like gravitation, who
will bring down any weight which you
cannot carry, and if he wants aid he
knows where to G4d his fellow-laborers.
! Water works i'll masses, and sets his ire
sistible shoulder to your mills and your
shops, or transports vast powders of K
4 thousand miles. But its far greater
power lies In its canacitv - enter the
smallest holes and pores. BY its agency
the vegetable world exists, carrying in So
luton the clements uoediul to every plant
Water that daily miracle--a substance
as explosive as gunpCwder-the electric
force contained n a drop Of water being
equal in amount to that which is dische, =
ed from thuuder-coud. l quote irom
the exact Farraday
While the farmer has these grand fcl-
low labJrers TO assist him, and these ma
iestic tools to work witt, it must be own
ed that he. is not quite competent to their
direction. His servants are sometimes
too strong for him. His tools are too
sharp But tbs inequality finds its rem
edy in practice. Experience gradually
teaches him, and he is thougAtful The
farmer hates innovation he hates the hoe
I'll he tries 1t, Prtle.t.ug to scratch with
stick he will walk till he has tried the
railway car; but the Oldest fogies among
US, now that the Atlantic Gable is laid,
would hardly set out to dispatch a letter
across the ocean by swimming with it in
his mouth. While such great energies
are working for the farmer, he is also to
/ IrecolIect the great power that is in small
things. 1t is very F.tio that IS required.
It's internal force consists in few simple
arrangements. Look, for instance, at the
powers Of chestnut rail. Look e that
! prairie, hundreds Of miles Of, not stick
/ or stone upon it, except at rare iuter-
yalg. Well, the farmer manages to put
up rail fence. and at once seeds sprout
and crops rise. 1t was obly the browse
and f.o that kept t"em down. Plant q
fruit tree by the roadside and It viii not
produce, although it receives many hints
/ from projected stores and sticks, that
/ fruit IS desired to cone down, and though
fruit has gone crude into the bowels of
small boys. But put fence around it,
the loys viii let il alone and you will
have fruit so large and luscious as to seem
almost inviting you to take Its picture be
fore being sent to the Horticultural Fair.
Nature drops piue cone in MaIip0sa,
and 1t grows three or four centuries, pro-
ducing trees thirty feet in circumference.
low was it done? They did not grow
on ridge, but il a basin, where they
touud deep and dry aoIi. yad where they
could protect themselves from the sun by
growing in groves, and from toe winds 5Y
the mountain shellor. The planter who
saw them remembered his orchard at
nome, where every year destroying wind
made his pears ard peaches look as biea,,
as suffering virtue, not better tlan \ Aboli-
tionists, while the fat Democrats, that had
got their tap-roots into the National
Treasury, grew stout and hearty. So be
went home and built a high wall on the
exposed side Of his orchard, and after that
his peaches grew 70 the size Of melons.
and his vines ran out of all control.
| have heard a man say tha. he could
have whole farm in q box a rod square.
lie would take his roots into his library
and feed them with food they like lf
they have a fancy for dead dog he would
let them have it, being sure that the fruits
would never reveal the secrets Of their IL
bic. Sucn men IL need ~ ling out a
greater degree of cultivation Of our soil.
which is capable Of IS great an increased
productiveness as that which England las
achieved. Concord is enc of the Oldest
towns IN the country-far on now in its
third century. The Selectmen have once
in five years perambulated its bounds,
and yet in this year very large quantity
OF land has been discovered and added to
the agricultural land, and without mur-
muir Of complaint. BY drainage We have
gone to the subsoil, and we have a Cou-
cord under Concord, a MiddIesex under
Middlesex, and basement story of Mas
sachusetts more TaiuabIe than all the su-
perstgucture. Tiles are political econo-
mists. They are so many young Ameri-
cans announcing better era, and a day
Of fat things. There l,as been a night
mare brought up in England, under tbe
indigestion Of the late suppers Of over
grown Lords, that while the population
increases in a eeomehical ratio, the crops
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