The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-09-14
farm aud Nonstholl.
A Disgusted Tnrmrr.

Thirty years ago bought this farm Of
hundred acres, well stocked and with
my wife and five children, who have al.
ways lived at home having only u com.
mon school education which will not cost
much, have worked hard lived economi.
cally and met with no misfortnnes aud
yet there is lawyer d, who came he Q
twenty-five years ago, too poor to buy n
house, has lived extensively, sent his
six children away TO school, two Of them TO
college, has more than twice as much prop.
erty as have the doctor aud the store.
keeper have been just about as lucky as
the lawyer farming is hard, Improbable
work, | wish my BOYS had COOL enough
learning togo into some other kind Of busi-
ness"
This was the lament OF man sixty years
old, who had well.fenced fields toerably
free from weeds, and good buildings.
His house (ucar which lay several cords
Of wood ready cut for the stove, unshellered
from weather) stands q short distance fro n
the woods, and on the opposite side is IL
barn, against which were four pyramidal
piles Of manure, bleached by the sunshine
and washed by the rain anl as though this
did not destroy it rapidly enough, the root
of the barn was made 10 aid its contribu-
tion so that for some days after the shower,
dark stream was trickling out into the
road, the whole making such all unsightly
picture and unsavory 0dor OF unlhrilt az
it is saddenlng to see and sickcning To
smell, and the saddest feature is, that it is
one that is 80 frequently seen; so often, as
hcetous friend suggests, takes the eye,
and nose Neglccting to mix muck earth
or some other absorbent causes here n loss
OF at least twenty five dollars u year, (prnb-
ably twice that and exposure to the wealth.
er, as much more. In this one item alone,
nj least fifteen hundred dollars had been
thrown away, and the blame was charged
upon the farming, instead of on the farmer.
hardly need say that plows, burrows
eleds, cart aud wagon, were visible, anl,
like the wood-pilc aud manure heaps. eu-
tirely unprotected from the weather, show
ing plainly how another Gltcen hnudrcrl
dollars might have vanished into th II air"
during the thirty years.
''Straws show which way the wind
blows" aud these leaks are pretty good
proof that there were others just as bad IN
this old mans pockets. IL il any won.
der he was dsgustcd with farming or
that farming was disgustcd with him. and
refused to satisfy him2
1t il, III one sense, unfortunate that agri.
CuIthre VIII Nlclu u support 10 lnoHe VINO
practice it in shameiuly, thouEhtless and
Blovenly way. Even tho Indian squaw,
who looks with the same contempt upon
the plow aid the harrow that an nnti-"book
farmer" does upon reapcrs aud horse rakcs,
manages to exist upon the products Of her
rude modes of culture.
While it is divi ely ordained that man
shall eat his bread in the sweat of his face,
ii IL also ordained that he shall not achieve
fame or wealth by muscular power alone,
by the exercise OF those powers only which
he possesses in common with his beasts OF
burden 1t is as much duty to cultivate
and strengthen the mental as the physical
constitution, and men who neglect this
duty, as 80 many farmers do. proclaim their
own shame when they complain of the un.
proh'ablencss of farming, Ms though ii were
unavoidable. II il truo it does not like
commerce, afford opportunities for sudden.
ly acoumulating fortunes by speculation,
which is amply compensated by the free
dom from danger of equally sudden bank
ruptcy from the same cause and is liable
to occasional failures from causes against
which no care or knowledge can eilec,ually
guard bnt the farmer who labors as intel.
ligently and as intensely as the professional
man or the merchant must do, in order to
insure success, will NOT consider farming II
hard, dull, uniuterestins, or Improbable em-
plOyment.