Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-03

render the place more healthy IL Is easy
to see that whatever comforts and innocent
pleasures industry could secure, without great
expense, are there. The running water, oI
the well, with something better 10 draw than
the ugly old sweep, the fish-pond it may be, the
eaves-trough and the conductor for sofl
water, the children's windmills even, that
looked as if the father helped make, ali give
a happy look 10 the place. Fruit trees Of all
varieties admitted by the climate, from the
early currant 10 the winter apple and the
spring-ripening pear, shower their muni6-
cence upon the family; and the garden gives
flowers and vegetables ever fresh Eden
hardly afforded home more desirable; and
so far as man is affected by circumstances,
nothing could 60 farther than the industry
and skill employed to create such home. to
restore the innocence Of Eden.
The creation Of such farm out Of Ian ds
before unimproved, or but partially subdued,
the rearing Of an intelligent family on it,
the keeping of it ever improving more and
moro, u perfect model for beginners in that
most important Of all arts, is great virtue.
The man who practices it deserves well Of his
country; and,if he merits not heaven by this
kind OF good works, he is certainly worthy
ITO inherit the earth" No one contributes
so much as such farmer to honor a calling
by which God ordained that more than half
the human race should live directly and the
rest indirectly.
But how sadly do farmers of an opposite
character, contented with the old house as
long as it will shelter their families in fair
weather, satisfied with everything as it was
or a little worse, if they only can indulge in
more ease, or think that they can lay by more
dollars, ever ready to scout the aspirations Of
their betters for higher life on the farm,
contribute to disgrace a calling which God
would have them honor.
Silly women, and silly men as well, have
always looked down from hncied superior
ity Of condition upon agriculture as a sort Of
stupid drudgery, in which women Of spirit
and men of talent would not engage. al
won't be farmers wife, say the one; and
"Ill not be farmer" chime the other. And
yet where would be the merchant, the man.
ufacturer, the professional man, the arts and
the sciences, if there were no farmers You
wouldn't, would you2 Well, then, be fool,
and done with. There is no calling on earth
in which women and men Of good common
sense, but no remarkable brilliancy, can ere
ate for themselves as enviable home, OF live
as usetully, or be as sure of an easy compe-
tence; and, what is more, rear family that
viii be as likely to honor their name when
they shall have gone hence. The man or
woman who can sneer at agriculture must be
ignorant or insane.
But the farmers themselves all, but a
part now lessening, it is hoped, every year
are the cause ofthis sad misjudgment. They
fail to exhibit farming in its beauty and love
illness. Let them clean up the road that runs
past their premises; let them make their
buildings as neat and comfortable as the best;
let them tear out the stumps that hinder the
cultivation and diminish the crop and mar
the beauty Of their fields and not wait for
time to do the work, because perchance it
may finish it in less years than Methuselah
lived; let cooling shades and fruits and flow
ers and garden sweets show that they live
altogether better than the city can. Let or
der, neatness, taste, inexpensive luxuries,
force themselves upon the notice of the passer
by, and they will be no poorer for it, will be
respected no less, and will respect themselves
more; in short, let them do as well in pro-
portion to their means as a great host of
brothers have been doing for years let them
follow some of the examples of fine and prof
table farming, which happily stand out for
their imitation all over the country; let the
tagging half of the God-appointed profession
do but a moiety Of what the advanced halt
have already DONE and agriculture will no
longer be thought of as a stupid drudgery,
but as brilliant sojourn and holy disci-
pline, on the way to higher being. -EndPeHd-
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