The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-10-28

II. Inere Is an Opuience III their stupid
ity. Turn your attention, then, as much
as you please to growing live stock--tha
same aristocratic class of hungry mer
will keep your millions of swine in a per.
petual squeal--the delicate appetites o.
those exquisite ladies will keep your
countless lambs in an eternal bleat. Bul
some of you may not like the idea thai
you are the class upon which other
classes depend, thinking it menial posi-
ton. The sun is our planets source oi
light aud fecundity; the moon and plan
cts glow, and stars twinkle, with its light;
the morning borrows from it its tints 0!
silver, crimson and gold yet as it moves
in brilliant majesty through the heavens,
imagine no one can say it occupies an
ignoble position in space.
Raising grain and stock is source OF
emolument to the agriculturist--it re-
suits in profit to be counted in dollars
and cents. But there are other elements
than those of gain, to be connected with
his calling. take it for granted that
most OF our first rate farmers have found
permanent home, for believe it to be
admitted that those who continually move
from state to state are more itinerants than
agriculturists. However this may be, a
farmer wants home. Castles and pal
aces, surrounded with grand parks and
extensive lawns, may not at first be built,
but by enclosing with neat fences, plant
ing shrubbery and fruit trees, and cult
vatlng tasty gardens. he may give his
home, however lowly, an air OF beauty and
cheerfulness while in its youth, and when
developed, an air even of luxury, ele-
gahce and grandeur. If the farmers
children become ayerse to the farmer S
employment, it is perhaps because too
little attention is given 10 making home
attractive; and where its general fea-
lures show want of life and energy-a
sort of monotonous decay, you must ad-
NIT there is nothing inviting in it. To
be sure, kindness and harmony, at this
day, reign in the household of the far
mer, and there can be no exceptions on
that account. But it has not always been
SO. find what was formerly considered
the heighth of domestic economy-disa-
greement and dissimilarity of taste-ex-
pressed in the old English ballad
"Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean,
And SO betwixt them both YOU see
They licked the platter clean.''
But the old regime of economy has
passed away, and it is now acknowledged
that harmony and union contribute most
largely to economical power, and hence
forth. throughout the limits of the do
mestic and general management Of the
farmer, new elements will be brought TO
bear-farming must be done on more wise
and scientific principles. Scientiic-a
word with sharkish-looking Latin head,
but good-natured modern Anglo Saxon
tail, that won't hurt anybody-and it is
becoming deservedly popular in Agri-
culture. Our material world moves about
the sun, now in the path it described
thousands of years ago, and the stars
chase each other in the same circle round
the pole, but the world of science has
been advancing in a straight line, and
Agriculture at last begins to feel its in
huence. l say at last, for il we look at
Agriculture as science, its most prom
inent developments have been made DUR
ing the past century. The field of heav.
en- had been largely explored. Planets,
consultations aud satellites had their
places on the maps of the astronomer--
the masses were weighed and orbits de-
flned the Fine Arts attained high de-
gree of perfection-paintings and statues
adorned the cathedrals and temples. The
Grecians had their national exhibitions
of physical strength--the Romans had
their Circus Maximus and gladatorial
shows--but no crystal palaces were built
where the Agriculturist miyhtexhibit to
the world the products of the soil. The
Helots Of Greece. and the Roman plebc-
ians could follow tilling the soil from day
to day, and perform all the physical ex-
ercise required for sowing and reaping,
but understood no laws that governed
matter, Or the elements that produced the
harvest. Fettered in ignorance aud
scourged by crazy despotisms. they were
worked. rather than working--trailing
after them their letters, and gnashing
their teeth. There was no stimulus to
encourage Investigations Of animal and
vegetable life. There has been enough
of this kind OF farming. and we all ad
init that they are those that with an iron
arm have held our grandest art in thrall,
contributing not a penny -worlh--not a
grain Of sand--to the temple Of human
knowledge and industry.
The genius ofmodcrn Yankee progress
alone is the conjurer that must fully un-
lock the spell and starlle up this agricul-
tural science from its sleep of centuries.
The spirit of improvement declares that
the world has been too much. occupied
with heroes, mighty hunters and con-
querors-that the strife of great men has
been too much TO appear a terror to the
earth, more than beneit---to come like
a whirlwinl. or like conAagmtions that
consume cities. more than to search
truth. There is no longer field for
such ambition now we have no more
need of mighty hunters-the dust Of the
Caesars is blown away. and to-day il is
more a matter of praise to be an Alex.
auIar IN tho s,.ianea nf ra,s;o,. .r,.,;.,