Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-10-21

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JTOBER 81, 1868. nua.4
lie before him in his pursuit. The pro-
portion Of quacks among farmers Is at
least as great as among docters and they
are the banc and disgrace Of every calling
They lower the standard of excellence
where they should magnify, tAoy belittlc
their vocation they dishonor aud dis
grace everything they touch, ard drive
away in disgust. better and bier mcii,----h
There are many such farmers in every
county but this May their number
grow small by degrees. and beautifully
less But when the young man ap
aproaches TIC great problem Of science in
farming as the minister tho science Of
theology. or the doctor the science Of med
icine, then shsIl he realize that to mas er
his pursuit. LIE must call into rcquisition,
not only bone and mustle, but courage,
intellect, heart, faith and devoti n Shall
the farmer. then, be ashamed of his voca.
tion? Shall he not rather '.magnify his
nigh office" by attempting perfect mas,
terry Of its high principles? Yet we
must confess to our shame and confusion,
that if he resolves to master all TIE world
can teach him OF the science or art of cul
tivating his acres. ke will at once find
himself Ia confusion ,st confounded !;
\ working at the base of an unfinished tow
er, among rough stores, brick and mortar.
while the workman are speaking TO him
in u tongue unknown. But science cal
culatcd to Zurich, elevate and ease the
burdens Of so many millions. must and
will be carried to completion Agricul
tural periodicals, books. libraries and col
lcges, spripging up in every state, give
hope and assdrance tha. this grea! and
good work shall soon reach perfection :
, The most majestic ediflces rise toilsomely,
slowly, bat surely. But you say all this
talk about science is quackery and htm
, bug. Does not the management Of q farm
five years give experience, skill, knowl
edge? Is not the farmer then, better
qualified to 60 into market and purchase
such fertilizers as are best adapted to his
own soil? In this time has not the far.
! mer learned to bring the ashes from the
+ sugar house every spring; that much time
5 should be spent iu manufacturing muck,
! or even common soil into compost that
killing small weed is only taking large
one in advance, that the cows require ex
ira care in the spring that one good COW
t is as easily kept, aud yields as muca as
two or three poor ones, aud that the two
] years-olds from some herds are as valua
9 BILE as the four years-olds from others ?
Now add to there five years the exper.
ience of twenty or thirty more, and many
t more valuable hints and ideas will be
( gathered up. r.. Ike these hints and sug
gestions, settled by the experience of thir-
, ty years of farming, to be facts and laws
/ aud arrange and classify them, aud you
have before you a hint or shadow Of what
, mean by the science of farming
e Now he who constantly improves in the
f means and modes of callivating his acres
! is in the highest and truest sense, magui
! flying his Office; while he is building
! himself up in wealth, comfort, intellect
+ aud heart, he is a constant aid, teacher
: and inspirer OF all about him. Such a
!. farmer may be justly proud of his busi
4 ness. But divest this lord of the soil oi
: his purpose Of growing wiser aud strong
J, er iu his art by experience; let him for
: get his comfort. tellect and heart, and
: think only of cheating or begging out ol
| his soil HIS annual sustcnance, by mere
r muscular LABOR, and be at once becomes 3
' disconsolate. whining, dried up plough
7 logger; belittleing his office and ASHAMED
: of his calling. Aud these doleful crca
tures Of discomfort are as often found il
c the house as in the field T; fathers auL
t mothers both unite to magnify not theiI
b noble vocation, but its hardships its pri
e vations, its unremunerating toll They
2 drag themselves about, with bent bodies
! and bowed heads. cherries. hopeless an(
] Jealous Of other mems success limiting
! all sorts Of evil of their more prosperous
5 ncighbor over the way while all profes
: sional men and merchants are held out t
J the world as black hearted Williams. will
8 smooth and glossy exterior, gliding plac
: idly through life. without ripple or
struggle. They regard themselves al
!. cheated out of all higher good aud com
8 fort. aud. as unfortunate martyrs, dooihet
|, to live the dshonorable and disgracefu
u life Of q farmer. Now to all such
9 say. 'stop." or, as the Psalmist would sa.
r "Selah, or, 40 common sense out Of pa
+. tience. would say, dry up those tears'G
3 Consider how many within you ow.
b knowledge, are scarcely able to drive fron
n their doors the wolf Of starvation who's
Q children are clothed in rags, aud supple,
(; with the poorest and plainest nrcessarie
!. of life. Think Of those human skeleton
i packed into the cellars and garrets of ou
0 large cities. whose lifelong companion
. are biting poverty, crime, last, filth an,
8 vermine. All this doleful discomfort am
!. jealousy Of other men and other vocation
!, blind their eyes. and cmbitter their lives
: not because their more prosperous neigh
!. bors have wronged or Oppres sed them
e but rather, because while they with ra
ltional experience, have grown wiser an,
= stronger in the art Of farming. and there
S fore more prosperous and wcslthy. thes
} croaking quaks have stood still from yea
4 TO year. forgetting that every days exper
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