Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1859-08-05
Anti.Book Farmers

which We copy q. follows
Whenever oar anti.book farmers can show
Us bs,trr crop. At les expense, better
Glcks. and better farms. and better owner.
on th,m. than book farmer. can. We shall
l,come converts Co th,ig Joc,rinc.. Bot. =.
vet. We cannot -ec how isfslIrelor in a rar.
u,r should iniuro hi. crops. N,r what
d.H.-ruc, 10 makes whether farmer got.
hi, idea, from a sheet OF paper, or from a
rsi.hlor'. mouth. OF from his own expert.
eacc, - that he only re'. good, practical,
sound ideas. 4 farmer never ohicct. 20 re-.
csfgc roircs' information from newspapers;
be b. quite willing % learn the state Of mar.
kst. from newspaper. and as willing o. gain
religious notion. from reading. and hi.tori.
cal knowlrdsc. and an sort. of Information.
ev-srt that which -r'l',s % li, husins.s.
n, viii c1 over and hear nelghhor isll
Row be prepare. hi. whcat.ani., how he
select. and puts. in hi. seed, how he deals
with hi, grounds in spring, in harvest and
ahr, harvest time, but ir that neisbhor
would write 9, AZ down carefully and pa,
iiHto a Tarsr, d, j. all poison it :, book
frru1s
">fr,1sr .-rh difrtrrrr there .hnoi b.,
'rsi,t tseri'ol1u, aHl Jsselletcr."
n rn',c head 81 lettuce surprising
an ttat h,s h,-n s,cn bsreahouts. every
r,ri farmer that Loves salad would ssnd
hr little secd and ask as be took H..
How DO YOU c'ntriye Q, raise such NON
s,r.1. beads You must have some seer,
stoa, I," But if my way were written
down and printed, be would not touch it.
"P,h. rs an bosh o."
Nov lst us inquire In what State land i
ths bsst managed, yiell. tbc most with the
lsast cl.t. where ara the hrs, sheep. the best
cattle, the be.t hogs. the best whea,2 II
will ha found TO be in tho.a States having
the mos, agricultural papers.
What j. there iu uagriculturc that requires
a man 10 D. ignorant, ii De will De- skilIiul >
or why NAV every other c'h.. o., mcn learn
hy reading. e1cgp, the hrmsr2 Mechanics
have their journals; commercial men bave
their paper. religious men. theirs r1li;i-
ciars. their. therc are magazines and nur.
uls Tor the arts, ior science, ior education,
AMI ,riy sof irr fla' grand puro1' 11 'sList
aT ,issr vard' We really could never un.
drr,tni why farmers should not wish 90
have their vocation on level with others
why they should fscl proud to have no
paper, while every pursuit i, fond Of liariu,'
0ns'
Tao.s who are prciuiicci asaiu', bo,k
farming ar ei,t good farmers, ini'i0iorm-
el ofths design of agricultural paPers, or
POOR farmers, who only ,rcat this subj as
thy g, all othrr.. with hIunisrinc i-uor.
auce. First. ths r1Ji farmers, there are
ir every county many industrious, hard
working men. who know they cannc, aG'rd
o. rt.s anything upon wild experiments.
They have growing family 20 support,
taIe, 90 pay. lands rsrhar, on which. pur-
cha.s money i due. or they are s;rainins
every nerve O. make their crors build a
laru. that ths harm may hold their crops.
They supprss an agricultural paper 90 b.
slt a iu., or Wild iauci's, expensive eHpcr-
iusut.. hi. stories. made up hy men who
trow nothing about farming except parlor
farming They would, doubtless be surrris.
ei % learn that ninety nine p,rt- m hun.
trsl oi the content, of agricultural paprrs
ar written hy hard working, practical far
uer. Tia, the editors business {. no, TO
ia,t absurd siorio- upon crcdul1us readers,
bot o. ..ft .t1riy-. % scrutiuiEe accounts, %
obtain whatever has been ahuudantly Prov
cl 60 b. fact. and 10 r,j,ct all that j. sus-
rer,-d O. De- mere ianciiul theory, Such
payer, are designed TO prc1en; imposition ;
20 Kill otT rretenders, by exposing then 10
search out from practical men whatever
ttey have found out. AMI % publish b, f1r
tie benefit ol their brethren all over the
Union o. spread before the lahorins classes
.1cb sound. veil approved scientific knowl-
eI.s as shall throw light upon every OF
Grafton Of the farm, the orchard aud the
garden.
Tie other class who rail a, hook armin.
ought 10 be- excused, for they DO not Urea,
box farming any worse than they do their
own farming. indeed, not halt 3, bad. They
Ia. ,he paper with their tongue; but cru'
ely abuse their ground, for twelve months
il the year. with both hands. | will draw
the ror,rai; Of a genuine auti-took farmer
Of this last sort.
he plows three inches deep. lest be should
turn up the poison that. in his estimation,
De, blow. hi. vbeai.laul is plowed 80 as
to keep as much water on it as possible be
sows two bushels 20 the acre and reap. ten,
- that il akcs 9Th Of his crop to .eed
his ground hi. cortland has never any
help iron him, hut bears just what II pleas
e., which is from thirty 70 thiriy.iye bush
81, BY measurement, though he brg, tina, il
is aity or SIXTY. Ills hogs, # not remarka.
be Tor iattenius qualities, would beat old
Eclipse at a quarter race; and were the man
not prejudiced against deep plowing, bis
hog woald work his ground better with
their prOdigiOus snouts than be does with
bis aek-knife plOw. His meadow.landa
yield hin from thESe-quArtsrs Of a ton to a