Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-10-04

copntrv rs there is TO day. This Is not only
matter of great interest to farm owners, but to
every man who has means or physical strength
that designs to make farming his business io'
lie. These large tracts of land and Plantations
of which have spoken at the south VIII pe VI
vid.J into small or ordinary sized FARMS ana
will be cultivated by free labor. Inc in1einssn'
and hardy sons of New England, and the gfea'
West, are to become their proprietors' Anu ho'
only this. but the old remaining inhabitants OIL
that section who are poor, are to become educa'
tod and intelligent. and when this work is con
sumsted, the man who has once considered iaooi
degrading, will throw off his old instructive ho'
tions and learn that to toll for ones daily pfea'
ia not only duty, but pleasure linen 1hose
who have been enemies the past four years WIZ
be, neighbors with common interests aua VIII
alike claim protection from the same govern
ment, and one will cheer the old nag az wiliihgY
and as heartily as the other
Again it Il believed that the peace we to-day
snioy will be handed down from generation to
generation through all time undlsturbed' ana
that man will not limit his operations hereafter
through fear of national disasters Then what
il duty? Agriculture is not as many believe
mere matter of labor and toll sweating Oh the
brow, simply rising and setting with the sun
and through each day mechanical hoeing' pio"'
ing, or raking 1t is a science and that one oi
the greatest matter for thought STUDY ah'
experiment III the days of 1870 agriculture
was no science it was matter of necessity
Our forefathers had nothing to study nothing 70
think about connected with agriculture anu
nothing with which to experiment. Inc ooyS
and GIRLS alike were learned to till the soil'-ne-
cessitv compelled this. To-day we have books
neriod,cals and the benefit of long and success
full experience Hyou have boy VINO manl'eS'S
a DESIRE love for the farm, the sheep Tue hofse'
or OK, cultivate this germ and at once furhiSh
him with such books and works as Will lead MN
to study agriculture as science and as an ar''
At the same time impress him with the truth tha'
there is true dignity in labor, especially In WORK
ing the soil, and that his object should be to sub
due and to beautify the earth, and that all tint
improvements Of the age, all progress IN the Vi
tai enterprises of the country have been the re-
suit OF intelligent labor. And above all things
draw him away from this retrograde system OIL
routine farming. Many of the farmers IN lhe
country, as soon as boy is ten years old oeglh
In treat him almost as a hired man. He is kept
srom school except in the winter, and is COMPEL
.d To perform what he sometimes is unable to-
and for what? Why to save few paltry dol
lara while the health and happiness Of the boy Is
rnined, and at thirty he is an old man. Parents
consider this matter Allow the mind and ply
steal powers to become developed Educate
them and learn them to labor Leave the mlnd
,nen to seek its own natural channel, and what
ever that channel may be, SO lit him that MS
tourney through life shall not only be an advah
tageous and happy one to himself and FAMILY out
a source, or fund of knowledge. and benefit to
his comrades, and those who may come after him.
Whenever he chooses to become farmer encour-
age HIM for let me say to you in the language OF
N. Willis, that 1.-The star of the farmer is on
the rise. To be distinguished man nowadays
there is no safer or more substantial way than 10
be an eminent agriculturist, successful horticul'
turist or the like--a Langworth Wilder a
Grant, Johnson There is no way for man to
b. looked up to like being an enterprislng and
successful farmer, and there is Certainly no way
to pass life so pleasantly. and no vocation which
is 50 sure TO keep him company till he dies"
The best farmer is always the most intelligent
inan Now if this is true who can doubt it? How
important it is for every father. yes. every moth
. or to impress the young agricultural mind that
In order to succeed, he must be intelligent. You
may look over the entire farming community,
and where you find one ignorant farmer who is
IN prosperous circumstances as to name and
means, you will find ten who are poor and almost
without name. If you were to prepare boy
for the bar or pulpit, your first object would be
to educate him, and thereby mature and expand
his mental faculties. This you do that he may
be able the more fully to comprehend and anal
lie hfs subjects. All will agree that no man can
prosper, or become great in the pulpit, unless he
be intelligent and of sufficient education. Now
the farmer should ba able to anaize his soil and
have sufficient skill to learn what crops are
adapted to the different kinds and grades, The
soil to the farmer, is as the Bible to the Doctor
of Divinity, and unless he understand it his la
Dor will be as fruitless as that of the ignorant
and uncultivated clergyman, either are pitt.
2 able objects. The most noble animal is the
horse. In him the ignorant man seldom has
pride. but rather treats him with cruelty. while
the intelligent man admires and makes him the
pride of his establishment. And in all other
matters connected with the farm a similar dis
tinction exists.
With these hints it seems that to be good far.
mer is to know something. You show me a dolt
who is agood farmer. and | will show you III he
is good farmer that he is no dolt 1t may be
said that an agricultural education is without
your means and reach. This is not so. The
country is replete with periodicals and scientific
books Five dollars will secure you life inter
est In a complete agricultural library. anI the
value of one days labor will secure the best pc
riodicals for one year. Now the mere day labor.
.er may have these advantages II he WILL and not
interfere with the demands of his family. BY
reading and thinking almost any man will learn
TO love the horse. the COW, the OK, and the sheep
and where ask can you find happier man than
the intelligent farmer. When he goes into bill
yards and fields he can say have enough ant