The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-11-30

board plow, the FAIL the pack-saddle, shallow
plowing, and the hand loom, and would beBs
equally 10th to dispense with the drill, the
horse-rake, the threshing machine and separas7
and lastly the reaping and moving masol
chine. There are equally important improve
ments in other directions awaiting the farmers
approval, which he will adopt as readily N
those just mentioned when the time arrives
which will make them indispensable. fsb
Icannot say that that young gfarmerstandsvery
high in my estimation who, blessed with sane9
and vigorous mind, and frame glowing with
health, is seeking to abandon farming to devotSa
his time, his talents and his energies to retziine
rapes and laces-to devote his life, soul aad in-i
tellect to an occupation much better suited To-
the female portion of community. -9 *
No argument worth straw can be advanced
/ on the ground that clerk in . mercantile
house has more lucrative situation than one
on the farm. The average Of mercantile clerk--f
ships in this city does not exceed $500 per an
mum; out of this must be paid boarding, wash;
ing, and extra quality of wearing aPparal I
am satisfied from what I know of the habits
and conduct of clerks in stores, that not one Of
them can show as favorable money balance
sheet at the expiration of the year, as IN in
dustrious young on n farm can; besidess'
on the balance-sheet of morals--the less saja,e
perhaps, the better.F, ias s9viu qlo .tfig xs,a1
Where is the clerk or professional man-ex-,
cept in some rare instances indeed-who, with
ou. capital, has become an object of cnvious
notoriety, that woula have been infinitely more
SO, had he remained on the farm?e City life ato
best, is much like whi.ened sepulchre, fair
without, but full of rottenness and dead mems
bones within. The young man leaves an hon.
| est home, and engages in the pleasures and re-
vel of city life; the siren lures him ON !; hSI
finds temptations too strong to be resisted, oAa
every hasd; there is a heavy struggle betweenf
hic rlu fyat ruha r,Snf n "a
| least has been honest and unsophisticated, and
the entcements he meets on every side, h&T
yields falls, and the gutter, prison or gallowss4
| close upon him forever. ,7..e
In the early exodus to California many mur-
ders were committed-these murderers once
were pure and innocent boys; they listened. to-
the sirens song, and yielded, step by step, un-
ti they were overwhelmed in crime had they
remained upon the farm, their gains would
have been in all probability as much as in thet
| and of gold, their conduct pure, their life se-
rene, and might have enjoyed the respect, and.
| approbation of the worthy in their neighbor--
hood. e - za gsl77shk 70 baTo
cannot better close this address than byi
| reading the following extract, from letter
| irom GEORGE SUMNER to Prof. AGAssIz, and
others on the project of Conservatory Of
Science and Art" = t. 5a.-- h99aEon
"a Museum like this would, I believe, aid
| most powerfully in creating greater interest.
| the Mother Art-would tend to retain on
| their paternal acres those crowds of young men,
who now flock to our great cities, there to drag.
,ut trivial existence, useless to others or even
to themselves; would aid also, in taking away;
| the false mantle of responsibility in which
| the unproduetive drones of society wrap them.
selves; would aid in destroying that last ren-A
uant of feudal barbarism, the contempt fol, ldi-
bor-and would tend to give to intelligent labor
| its true position of highest honor. .noft
"If seem to speak strongly, may here ap-v
| peal to tie experience of other countries and
| especially of that one in tho government Of
| which the aristoeratic element finds lager
| place than in any other. I.s
rSome eight or nine years ago, whenvis;ting;
| large landed proprietor in England, he re-
marked to me, that all his estate, except the.
park and garden, was let out TO farmers. Of
his three sons, two were then pursuing their:
University studies, one to become an hereditary
! Legislator, one to become elereyman, perhaps,
| IA bishop. The youngest destined for
the army Not long since, again visited this.
same estate, and somewhat surprised to-
| find the future bishop and the future general
hard at work as good farmers. Abiding to-
this change in their career, the father said -
| Farming is quite different affair new from,
what it was few years ago. Lawes and Eiebig'
| have changed all that. When it was found
| that there was much room for science and
intelligence in cutivating the soil, as in maxi.
ing sermons or in moving soldiers, farming be-.
came quite a fashionable occupation, and, for.
one, am glad of it, His two manly sons
heartily responded to this. Similar examples
[ often saw on other estates. c ffs.E v.7~,-fo9
off the sons of English noblemen, stimuIa--
ted by interest in the developments of sgricul-
tural chemistry, find as much honor in tiilinE
the soil as holding commissions in the army.
perhaps. under similar influences, seme of the
young men of Massachusetts may consider it
quite respectable to hold tie plox as to
handle the yardstick and find quite as worthy
an exercise of their active intelligence in maxi
ing chemical analysis of the soil they cultivatep
as in eiphering out in counting house the most
perplexing trial balance"