The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1868-11-07
Farming, the Noblest Occupa-
ton of Man!

In our onu6dVOrS 10 urIHS Uo
fore the minds eye of our readers
the honorable position in society
which we claim for the farmer, we
do not wish to be understood that |
farming is the only honorable
pursuit a man can follow. We
believe heartily in the senti-
ment found in the couplet SO often
quoted:
"Honor and fame from no condition rise:
Act we'll your part-there all the honor lies"
The oldest occupation of man,
of which we have a record in the
Good Book, is horticulture, a
branch ofagriculture. God placed
our first parents in a garden to
dress 1t. Even after the fall, al
though fraught with harder labor,
beset with greater difficulties and
requiring greater efforts Of body
and mind-yet their occupation
was the same. They titled the
ground and had herds and flocks.
Men are often proud to speak of
the large farms, the magnificent
herds and great flocks of some of
the farmers of the present day !;
but what are they compared with
those of Abraham, Esau, Jacob,
Laban or Job. No man comes in
such immediate contact with ma
ture and natures God, as the far
mer. Is not this ennobling? Can
| he behold the ever-changing sea-
sons with the consequent develop
ment of the blade, the flower, the
full corn in the ear-can he, while
Iinhaling the odor- laden fragrance
of the poisoning fruit tree; or
storing away the aromatic hay or
golden sheaves; or cooling his pal
ate with the luscious peach, or the
health giving grape; or while gath
/. ering the sugary pear, or storing
away the beautiful spheres OF
green, golden or purple apples
can he forget the hand that Law
ishly bestowed all theseG He
who ''gave the early and the lat
terrain ?" Surely a calling chos-
en- of God himself and so signally
blessed by Him, must be noble
and honorable! &
Pure minded men of all ages
esteem it so. Rome sent for Gin
cinnatus and took him from be
hind the pillow to mike him her
first citizen.
"The noblest men know on earth,
Are men whose hands are brown with toll
Who, backed by no ancestral graves,
Hew down the woods and till the soil,
And win thereby prouder fame
Than follows king or warriors name,
God bless the noble working men,
Who rear the cities OF the plain,
Who dig the mines and build the ships,
L And drive the commerce of the main.
God bless themi for their swarthy hands
Have wrought the glory of our lands
) But, to come down to more
. modern times: We love anC
venerate George Washington al
, the ''Father of his Country" Fl,
was a farmer and a good one too
3 So were jackson and Clay ant
Harrison and Webster, and yer,
many of the most eminent states
men of our land. Prince Alder
"the good" although a Queen
Consort, was a practical agricult
4 urist and delighted in the pursui
u of farming and stock breeding
C All the crowned heads of Europ
], are devoting good deal of tim
i and money on their estates, an
il many of them give their persona
= supervision thereto. They Low
to experiment, and are just tn
> men (because they have means
to prove what can and what ca
i not be done.-[Colman's Rurs
e World.
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position ''Winter is the coldes
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