The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-01-12
THE FAR Err.
Secs,sgFR for Farm eFs,

sermon 90F EfsefEfs eFS,
And now, farmers, have you done jus
tice to your profession, to your families
and to your country, for the last year
TO your profession--have you cultivated
your grounds with all the assduity and
zeal of which you are susceptible? Have
you called TO your aid all the agricultural
reading within your reach, and taken ad-
vice from those Of your neighbors who are
competent to give it? Are your farms
generally in better condition than they
were one year ago Are your fields bet
ter laid out and enclosed-useless stones
remoyed-your waste ground less-your
bitches opened-aud the general surface
OF the ground better adapted for the rails
ing OF crops? Has your land been made
richer, to enable it to yield more, and have
YOU collected 4 large amount of materials
u increase your annual stock of manure
Are your houses more comfortable, besides
being of a ncater appearance, from the la
bors Of the year? Have you added to the
convcniences and safety of your barns, to
make them better adapted to the purposes
for which they were built?
Again has your stock Of cattle aud
horses improved, not Onl y in number, but
more in quality and appearance, and con-
sequently in value Have you selected
and do you raise the best kinds Of sheep?
we mean those kinds that are most prof.
liable to the owner? Have you the best
breed of hogs, and do you carry just so
many through the winter as best conIuces
to your interest? In short, have you so
farmed in all things that you have no
cause Of regret, because you have given
to all proper degree of attention and
care?
If so, we congratulate you but if not
so-if you have not done one, a part or
all, of those things, the year has been, in
Il measure, lost to you, and you have not
done justice to your farm or your profes-
sion. Take another year of probation,
turn 1t to better account, and let your dill
gence give evidence of a thorough refor- !
nation. But if experience cannot teach |
and the prospect of harrassing debts here
after cannot incite you to noble industry |
you will soon become an evil in neigh |
borhood, your example will be injurious
to others. and your slothfulness and un- |
thriftiness will assuredly lay your farm
under 4 cumbersome mortgage and this
imposed, the next step is disposal of it
by a creditor at auction
We. turn from such, and ask next, Have |
you for the last year done your duty to
your family! That is, have you made
the labOrs of the farm as cheerful TO ali |
your depeh1ants as circumstances would
allow? Have you been so far kind and |
indulgent rs was consistent with the prop
er management of well regulated house
hold! Have you attended to the educa-
tlon of your children and apprentices, and
and as far as one short year would allow,
given them all the opportunities to acquire
information that may be useful to them
hereafter In their several pursuits, and |
that with intelligence they may support
the free institutions Of our coutry? I'll
you have done this, you have done your
duty; but let us at the same time remark,
that education is on the advance; what |
was necessary for our generation, Is not
enough for them. The march of intellect
Is onward, and our present attainments
are comparatively small, and all will be
still more undervalued, IN advance of the
generation to come.
Have you done your duty to your coun-
try! Have you given the necessary aid
that the good of society demands at your
hands-to the bridges, roads, public i'm
Proyements in your respective neighbor-
hoods, to schools, seminaries of learning.
public morals, and religious institutions
These are all great and important duties,
and well-regulated community ought
not to be Sighted or forgotten. Society
cannot flourish without them-they are
the stamina that give stability and health
to our country and its government, and
that man is unfit for associated life, he is
wanting in principle, and reckless of con-
sequences, who will not lend his aid to
the attainment of these great and impor
tant objects.
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