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

whole ton OF hay, which Is regularly spoil
Ell in curing. regularly LEI, cut for a month.
and very frequently stacked up, aud lett for
the cattle to pull out at their pleasure, and
half eaten and half tr,mplcd under foot.
lis borss. would excite the avaricc Of an
anatomis, in search Of astrological speci-
mems; aud returning from their range of
pasture. they are walking herbauum., bear.
In: specimens m their name and tail Of cy.
ery weed that hears a bur or a cockle Bat,
q, the COW. Il held up in bright day in
tho sun. don't YOU think they would he
scmi-tan.p,rcnt2 But he tells US that
co1l mixers are always poor Ills COWS
get what Providence send. them, aud very
little beside, except in winter; then they
have a half Peek Of corn on ears foot long
thrown TO them, and they afford lively spec
,acle- Of animated corn and cob-crushcrs-
never mind, they WELD. on an average,
thr,c quarts Of milk a day and that
milk yields yarie,Ic, Of butter quite aston
i.hius.
HI. farm never grows any better in ma.
ny r.p-,,, il get. annually wor,c. After
ten year, work ON good soil, while hi
nei:hhor. have grown rich, he i jus, where
be- started. only hi. house /. dirtirr, hi.
f,n,c. are to'tcripc. b,s soil poorer, his
pril, and h,s ignorance greater. And when,
at Last. be- s.ll. out 60 a Pennsylvania that
Rad. ,he Farmer. Cabinet, or 90 some New
Yorker with his Culuutnr packed up care
fully as n IL were gold, or 90 a Yankee with
hi. New England Farmer, he eoc. or TO
Missouri, thanking Heaven that Is's no,
book farmer
PROFESSIONALLY, there are two sides to
thi, question. and both OF them sIir,ms,
and therefore both Of them deficient in ,ci-
cnes and in common scns,. II men were
made according O. our notions, there should
b. lilly one alive; but il d. otherwise or.
drrcl, and iber, i. 10 department Of hnman
lii, in which W, 10 not 6uI the weak aud
foolish men. Thi. /. true or farming A.
much a, Of any other calling Bot no one
dream, Of setting down ,hcyoc,iion Il aeri-
culture, because, like every other. it has its
proportion Of stupid men.
Why. then. should agricultural ,ruiu',
as a class, De summariIy rejected, because
some Il them are visionary Arwe not g.
De allowed oar share u fools, as well as ev-
cry other department, OF life? We in'i,, on
our rights.
\ Book or a paper never proposes to take
tbr place OF farmer. Judgment. Not to
read at all, is bad enough but % read,
aul swallow everything without lection.
or discrimination, this j. even worse. Such
a ou, .. not bo1k.heaicd. hut a block.
headed farmer. Papers are designed to as
aH. Those who read them must select,
moIi'y, aud ac, according to their own na-
tive Judgment. - used, rapers answer a
double purross, they convoy .rai amount
of valuable. practical information, aud then
they stir up the reader 60 habit. Of thought,
they maze him more inqui.i,i,c, more ob.
serving, more reasoning, and, therefore,
more reasonable.
Now, ~, % the contents Of agricultural
rapcr,. whose lul, is 10. it thcy are not
prI.n.1l' Who are the practical men
who are daily eouversant with just the
thiu.s cultiu,or most nccls 10 know ?
who &, stumbling upon difficulties, or discoy.
crins some escape from them ? who i'i; that
know. ., much about gardens, orchards,
farms, cattle. grains and grass,s' Why,
the very men who will not write a word for
the paper that they read, aud then complain
that there {, nothing practical in it Ye',
there i. There j. practical evidence that
men ar, more willing to bc helped than to
help others and also that men sometimes
blame Others for things for which they,
themselves, are chiefly blamcworthy.