The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-09-30

Some persons, especially young men
seem to think tarming.a disagreeable &c
cupation-. It has too close a contact will
the soil, for fine clothes; is too laborious
for those who wish leisure and recreation
and who are 'constitutionally tired il
slow in the accumulation of :. profits, anG
a forbiddlng field to those, who. are am
bilious for wealth and fame, e.,...l +,
Farmers whose intelligence and abili
ty entitle them to a high rank, win never
be denied it, because of the character Of
their employment. Let them equal tht
knowledge, excel the virtue and avoic
the extravaganza of the. so-called high
er classes" and they will hold securely
their just position. !" Respect thyself, il
thou wouldst have the respect of others,
is maxim of universal application. Two
thirds of the male population of the Unit
ed States are engaged in land culture,and
| know of none who have surer way to
aff1uence and preferment, than the enter,
prising tillers of the .soils.:'. ,a.u. 49,.
Husbandry is a safe bu 'iness, and has
less temptations and risks than almost
any other avocation. The merchant some
times makes more in a single year than
the farmer whose gains. are slower and
surer. The fluctuations of trade like
the pillows of the ocean,, engulph and
destroy. More than ninety merchants in q
hundred ultimately fail, and yet some
good, capable young men, at this period
SO wonderfully favorable for securing land
in the west, will give up the idea of MAX
ing permanent homes, leave their fathers
farms, seek merchantile clerkships in the
cities, or engage in travelling agencies,
preterring anything to agriculture.
Wealth is the great excitement Of our
time. The inordinate desire to become
rich is disease, delirium, alike de-
structive of the highest good, and the
best interests of the farmer. Those who
make haste for sudden wealth cannot af.
ford to work and wait, or submit to pa
tient persevering labor; their cry is, 'Let
the golden stream be quick and violent
To accumulate fortunes rapidly, and then
retire and spend them profusely, is their
great aim of life, the hight of their am
bition. How few reach it, and tho1e who
do, how miserable in their retired idleness
and extravagance-victim of misplaced
confidence, and self receptions in the
seeking of low and selfish pleasures?
Happiness IS the proper object of life,
and wealth is an appropriat means OF
usefulness, but when 1t is sought as an end,
and for its own sake, and for no higher
purpose. both its pursuit and possession
become a calamity.
Give me neither poverty nor riches
was the memorable prayer of wise man
of old, and Lord Bacon, one of the great
est men of modern times, says "Seek not
proud riches but rather such as thou may
get Justly, use soberly distribute cheer
fully, and leave contentedly.
Health is the attendant of husbandry
and is superior to wealth. One of the
ancients wisely wrote, Health of body
is above all riches, and strong body
above initiate wealth"
When l look upon the health and COM
fort and independence before, and around
me, the brilliant eyes and blooming
cheeks all tell, that you have that which
is above wealth, and beyond estimation.
Henry Keep, the late President of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway, arose
from poverty to be millionaire When
sick a few months since, he said on
his deathbed, "Only restore me the health
which | enjoyed when poor boy, and /
will most cheerfully exchange for it, eve
ry cent of my property"
Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words, health, peace and competence:
But health consists with temperance alone;
And peace, virtuei peace is all thy own.
Among the farmers pre- eminent helps,
and directly or Indirectly connected with
his operations, are many of the Natural
Sciences. Husbandry holds more impor
tant relations with these, than any other
branch of industry. Chemistry, Botany,
Geology, Meteorology, and even Mechan;
les, Hydraulics, and Astronomy offer their
aid to the cultivator of the SOIL Con
slider only one of these: Chemistry-and
that briefly, for there is not time for more
than such notice. This science discloses
the qualities of the soil, each Of its com
ponent parts, the SILICA, lime, potash, iron,
phosphorus, IN fine, the acids, alkalies,
and all animal, vegetable and mineral
substances organic and inorganic, which
compose the soil Chemistry also ex-
plains and defines the elements of the at
rsosphere, and their proportions and com
binations, the oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen
and carbon, so that the two great depart
ments affecting vegetation in which the
farmer is vitality intcrested--thc Earth
and the Atmosphere-are fully analysed
and illustrated by chemistry Tie earth
seems to be one immense laboratory The
art of culture is chemical one and the
intelligent farmer the chemist. This SCI
ence informs him of the food upon which
every plant must live, whether obtained
from the earth or the air, what soils are
deficient, and how supplied and adapted
to the growth of various products, and
how exhausted soils can be restored by
the application of manures, or by judi
cious rotation of crops. Chemistry ex-
plains the process of vegetable life in
every STAGE of growth and even in decav