The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-06

For the REPUBLICAN.
AGRICULrURAL.

AGRICuLEUHAL.
The annual meetings, greetings, OIL
reunions of our citizens at their Ag-
ricultural Fairs, gre now past, ant
the time for retrospectioh, for discuss
ion, for suggestions, for investigating
ideas, has come, and for improving OF
the Fairs and afflirs of the past
Those yearly haryest-homes, where
the eyes of the gay and festive throng
are feasted on the enterprise, the in
genuity and untiriiig energy of those
scions of improvement, who have i'm
bibed and still believe in the spirit o.
creative genius as one of the distin-
gushing features ofvchristian civillza-
tion. There are those, however, who
object to these annual gatherings, a:
of no practical beneft-saying they
are only used as means of private
speculation, andnotas they profess, fol
the Improvement ofagriculture. These
charges may, or may not be true, as
applied to the different gatherings I'M
der the spacious name of Agricultu-
raj Societies. / can speak for but one
the G. c. A. Society, held at Car
michaels, which, according to the
certified accounts, have paid out in
premiums within the last two years,
over three hundred dollars more than
their receipts, so there can be no room
for such charges here. But that theil
efficiency has been largely curtailed,
by the stolidity of effete ideas, | shall
not attempt to den,'--for whenever q
community becomes so attached to one
set of ideas as to reject all Others, they
at once set bounds to their efficiency
and destroy at once their power to dc
good. Never having been an advo-
cate of obsolete ideas, | cannot now
do homage to the lessilized remains oi
any pet notions, however antiquated
unless they mean Improvement. For
ward, onward, investigate, improves
Radical, if you please, is the word.
Why cannot the world be said to
move in Greene county, as well as
elsewhere. | am Row and hope ever
shall be, an advocate of liberal idea.
to all the world. But man, or a
community cannot support great and
long continued improvements at their
own expense. Hence the great error
of this society in not renumerating its
managers, and officers for properly at
tending to its business, another great
lever of usefulness is left entirely un-
noticed, because no'one cares to devote
the necessary time and money to this
means of public Improvement; q. e.)
the procuring of new, rare, useful and
ornamental, plants shrubs, flowers,
herbs, fruits, etc, for distribution among
the farmers, gartlners, florists and
others. Why not have communication
with the, great Agricultural and
Horticultural centres, of our country,
procure those seeds and have some
tangible form or system of distribut-
ing them, requiring those who get
them, to place the products on oxhi-
bition, and contribute their experience
for publication so that by the attri-
tion of mind with mind or matter
either, the Agricultural community
may be made aliveto their real inter-
ests. When this 5 the case then will
our farmers be cdt loose from their
old time mooriug,, and directed by
the compass of experience the lamp of
science with her hand-maid of art,
will bless the tiller of the soil, cheer
tic artisan in his toll, and comfort the
philanthropist in his labor of love.
G. W. d.