The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1858-03-12
!. uDeD,.rDri.inr. they eoneede thu, he will

is unepterprising, they concede that he will
fall behind in the race, aud u Is so.
Blu, let sny farmer undertake 10 answer
the questions we have asked, and Ten times
as many tina, we might ask, and he Will
soon find that his is a business, one requlr-
inc as much reflection.os much iorethought,
as much shrewdness, (riot shrewdness that
only depenerates into low cunning, fraud,
cheating, y as any other, and to which as
much knowledge, as much experience, as
much keen observation, and, We VIII add, as
much reading. can be sdyantageously aP-
plied as 10 any other. That the merchant
should read the history oil commerce anG
study the markets, but that the isrmer shouio
work; that the manufacturer should 'nSesu-
gate the source OF his materials, the cuPa-.
bilities Of his machinery, and the wants oil
the world, bu, that The farmer should irork |;
that the mechanic should understand the
philosophy OF his trade to the core, but that
TuE FARMER SHOULD WORK, WORK, WORK,
and when he is done working go 10 sleep,
is heresy more fatal to the worlds pro-
gress in civilization and Christianity, than
all the isms that pandemonium has ever
Matched.
We have watched the farming OF this
and other countries for nearly halt a cen
tuTy, always intensely interested IN Its wei
fare, DESTROYS OF It's success, grieved by lis
failures, and We here affirm without fear OF
contradiction, that it is not the hard-woTk-
ing farmers that have succeeded the best:
Those who have been good thinkers, ana
diligtni but moderate workers, have sue
ce,ded. God has so arranged the affairs OF
this world, that IL is not best Tor any one
man to do the work oftwo. He who urder-
takes IL, thwarts the purposes OF his Maker,
and fights against his own interest. You
may do reasonable days labor every day,
aud be none the less intelligent and manly
for il. The man WHO is ashamed to do this
is ashamed Of his Makers laws. But 1t you
undertake two days work in one cay, you
cannot be much OF man. Solomon SAID,
"Much increase is by the strength OF the
OK" but he was too wise TO say that farm
er will prosper just in proportion to the
amount Of his labor. Some OF the best
farmers we have ever known were feeble
men, actually unable to do more than a
moderate days work in a day; and we
ascribe their success to the fact, that, con-
scious of their physical weakness, they have
cultivated their minds the more, thought,
planned, made their calculations well, laid
out their work to be done at the best pos
sible advantage, and so come out best at
the end of the year, more than making up
in head work what they lacked in that OF
strong arm and giant frame; and wherev-
or we have known farmer, with no vi
cious habits or unfortunate associations, 10
run farm through and come out pauper,
he has generally been one of those stout,
able-bodied men, Who could NOW five acres
u day with an old-iashioned scythe, and do
other work in proportion.
We will not say that farming is genieeI
employment. In the vulgar sense OF that
term, II is not as genteel as selling ribbons
behind the counter. But II Is as respect
able; and will be more so, ii the farmers
will do Justice 10 their COT viciions. IL is
compatible with the highest intelligence
and the very highest intelligence can be
made TO bear iavOrably on It's results. II
the farmers Of this country will be true TO
themselves, nothing can thwart their on
ward progress. Neither merchants nor
manufacturers, if they wished, as neither Of
them do, nor yet that army of middle men,
as numerous and as meddlesome among us
as the locusts ana frogs in Pharaoh's bread
,roughs, could put them down, or prevent
their a,ocation from becoming as honorable
as II is useful, ind heulth-eiving and safe.
Were all the farmers in The land within
our hearing we would say study your past
i'm order to correct your future; read wha'
others say, that you may have the expert
ence OF more than one man; be frugal o.
time, tina, You may perform a reasonable
amount of labor, and have hours enough
leit to discharge every duty and TO acquire
and apply TO your business a high degree
Of intelligence; and then give your som
such a start. tina, il possible they will ou,dC
yourself So shall you magnify your call
ing and remember that not all the worlC
Can magnify it, II you do not.