, 1866-08-03
Ietter from Farmer.

MALLA WALLA3 aug. y low
Ed. STArEsMAx:-In your last issue notice
"Query." lam surprised that you should IN
quire after me, and excuse for my absence
/ will say that as we have an Agricultural So
ciety, many of the members of which are OF the
Uliterary kiud' and capable writers, | thought
surely you would not lack for agricultural cor
respondents for certainly those men who came
forward so nOblv in organizing that Society are
not going 10 be drones and. go plodding along
on their farms aud not even give us an occa-
sional- item in your paper, to let US all sac how
they do their farming, and what they have
learned BY the summers experience. Why, Mr.
Editor, / felt sure when saw those men "come
OUT and join in a farmers association that
they were awake 10 their own interests, and as
a natural result would correspond with each
other through the medium of your paper and,
as was very natural, l expected to hear from
them and cot have all the talk on my side. Inv
deed, would like to read communications on
the subject of our occupation from the pens OF
those intelligent farmers l saw a. the late agri-
cultural meeting. Aud now will say to my
brother farmers, that, in my opinion, they can
all do themselves more good by devoting an
evening once or twice month to writing short
item for the paper than in any other way they
can employ the time. l consider it the actual
duty of every farmer to write an article on the
subject of agriculture at least AS often ms twelve
| lication or not. 1t seems hardly necessary for
me in this intelligent community to give my
reasons for this; for surely all see the bener
! fits derived from it. Every man knows that
while we apply our minds to the subject of our
vocations in preparing an article, we must in
crease in knowledge, and the more we follow up
this course the easier it is for us to investigate
matters of interest to US and the more the mind
expands, and thus we naturally become compe-
{ fon fn lich md llN nnF r.
form more manual labor, for the simple reason
that we do it more inteligently and systemati-
| cally. ! have always followed farming, and
can give you my experience with the 4" litera-
ture of farming. When l first subscribed for
that glorious old paper " The Rural New YprkS
er," and read it faithfully, commenced to learn
how to farm. Many things in that paper were
not suitable to the country where | lived, 50
these tkinqs had to adjust for myself, which
naturally put ME to studying, and as arrived
at a conclusion wrote it down for future refer
euce. Then my eyes commenced to open, and
the more wrote the more | studied, and the
more ] studied the more learned, and the more
| learned the more could do and the easier il
was TO do it.
But find | am occupying too much space.
must close for the present Ivy saying that if we
would succeed we must our minds, and as
an incentive to this must use the pen. By
this we will stir up each other and create n new
life in farming Our society will not do it at all
Meeting once year and exhibiting our produce
will not do all the good we need in the way oi
intercourse with each other. We need each
others counsel and advice every week, aud as
there are many able writers who have publicly
identified themselves with farmers say to them
that it is their duty to and to themselves to
write and make public their experience as far.
mers. Some other time may say more on thi:
matter Of writing. Yours, as ever.
WALLN WALLA FARMER