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

HalA x AhttuNi WStS w oSt paw
Hoshours each day for agricultural read
Ing ana reflection, he would not only be
. wiser nta b ppier man, but would live
N greater comfort and acquire more prop
srty 10 the same length oftime.5 Many
an honest farmer has drearily worn away
his life, by acting under the sad error
that efficiency in farming is only incessant,
exhaustirg manual labor To learn to
dig is easy. but to learn how, when, and
where to dig. is the achievement of life
,imc Doyou not know many hard work,
ing farmers, who have toiled, carly and
late, for the last forty y ears and have
failed to secure competence. hccause they
have lacked the knowledge and tho skill.
the wisdom aud the science to direct their
exertions, and make them more etftc'ual /?
One such knew. From his father he
received liberal pattimouy. From morn
ing till night he moves about at snail's
pace, with one eye sqaiuting and the 9th
er shut When he should be hoeing, he
10 planting. While his grass stands with.
ering. be is hceing. and his corn is us
ually 'anaked" to the barn on the earliest
snew. Many a time, at the still hour of
midnight, whcn beast and bird aud insect
were hushcd in slumber, have heard his
sluggish voice screaming through the air,
'r-;-g. Fig, l-i-gl" as he called the
half tamishcd swine to their midnight
repast. His neighboss VIII tell you. that
through such perverted hatits Of industry
he has made no money, aud erjoys no
comfort sssi. 5g.5 ae ss aa
What son of toll is not encouraged and
led on to his daily task by his hope of
liberal reward for LIS labor? II the
farmers faith iu rich harvest is uumov.
cd, he works with more cheerful heart
and vigorous arm, but if he doubts. he
faiuts, and the weeds do cover him. That
husbandman who trusts alone to the nat.
nral productiveness Of the soil, disregard
ing drouth, rain. frost, and deadly insect,
will be much oftener disappointed, and
therefore have less hope in the certainty
Of reward. than he. who, by his superior
skin in the science Of farming, masters
his fields, and comIels tkem to yield him
a certain and bouutifal harvest God
is on the side of the heaviest artillery"
and helps those who have the heart and
the pluck to he themselves ohFn that
no conceivable efficiency and pretaGton,
no attainabe wisdom and foresight, can
absolutely and at all times, guard the
farmer froth disappointment and disaster
1t may be true, that your careless, shift
less neighbor has raised a better field Of
c,rn this year than you "a FOOLS luck
comes ahd eocs without law or reason, }
but in the operations of lifetime, you
arc sure to outstrip him, in JUS. 30 muc ch
as you excel him.
In youder interval there are two farms,
aliko in size and soil. In the one, the
only sign of fence. is ragged ridge Of
brier aud brake the boys. the dog and
the old man. are chasing the sheep and
cattle out of the oats; around the shabby
barns. that so much resemble monster
pepper.boxcs, lie scattered the nauseatine
remains Of cattle that died in carly spring
and manure that has bsen washed and
dried hy the rain and suns Of many sea-
sons The corn and potatoes are late
sckly and checked with weeds the dilaP-
idated old house tells its own story win
dows stuffed with rags. and hats. and
shingles no fcuce ia front, no flower nol
tree, but there it stands, like great, ugly
blotch upon the face of nature. with only
Que clnameu., aud that heavy mott
gage. tgt.
In TIE other. all fences are In prime
condition +: the barns are sweet, tigh'
aud tidy. with cellar underneath, il
which the crops are made. The fields are
burdcncd with bending grain, aud silkips
corn. and sweetest clover. among which
riles the happy farmer, whose cheerful
song keeps time to the click Of his mower
while The farm, house is cheerful, spotles:
aud shady. environcd By trees and flow
ers. lacking no ornament s,se the heavy
mortgage. True it is, success follows
tboroughness, and crowns merit. What
ever is worth doing is worth doing well.
The former has trusted the wild way
wsrdnsss of the natural soil, until he hal
lost the ambition to keep his scrops fenced
for they are hardly worth it he has beel
mastered by. and become slave to hi
farm Can such man have heart, Of
hope. or motive, to make his labor voun
tary and cheerful 2 The latter. calling
to bis aid, as an ally, the natural strength
of the soil. has trusted more to his owr
enterprise aud skill |; in his hands th'
soil is as clay in the hands Of the potter
that cellar beneath his stable is his lab
,atory, out Of which he brings compos
which he k,aoscs will compel bis fields ,t
| yield him bis annual resard. He ha,
full dominion over his land, aud is il
perfect master The faith Of such a far
mer in liberal return for all his labor
/ is steady, buoyant, and never falters =
His labors are cheerful, light and vclun
tary, while his reward and comfort. ar
sure and unfailing.
Again, the husbandmau should "raag
nifty bis Office" should he proud Of hi
business Labor never can Le spontane
Gus and free, unless the workman is fillet
with the pleasing consciousness that hi
employ ymcut IS equal to himself, that hi
aeld Of labor is not only honorod aud res
pected. but that in it there Is scope 70
the play and activity Of his highest ahc
noblest capa bilities. True, there is D
such scope 10 mere muscular exertion
such as choppiDg, digging. hoeiug or NOV
ing. for these are simply the mechanical