The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-09-24
Aggric Culture -Advantage Accur
ing from it's Results.

The following homely truthful an very |
appropriate remarks, on the subject of
agriculture and its Advantages, are taken
from the Farm journal, published at Fay
etteville, Pennsylvania. We commend
them to the careful persual and serious con-
sideration of the young men of our State at
this particular time, when the professions
are over crowded, and this rich and favored
land is calling for strong hands and willing
hearts to help develop the riches now hid
den in her fruitful bosom:
OF all the various occupations and pro-
fessions which have engaged the attention
of mankind, there is none that seems so
henorable--in short, so compatible with all
our interests, as the cultivation of the earth.
There is no occupation that has so many
resources within itself, OF which can furnish
from its means, the supplies for all our
necessary wants. Food, raiment and luxu-
ries innumerable, are the fruits of the
farmers labor and care, and in their train
follow health, happiness, independence. In
view ofthese facts they are, are we not led
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are placed behind the counter to Learn the
mysteries and arts of the yard stick-to de-
prive them selves fthe bloom AMI freshness
of youth, and bring carly and deep burrows
of care and anxiety on their brows, by the
difficulties and perplexities attending the
prosecutions of mercantile pursuits, while
so many and strong inducements are held
out for them to engage in that profession
which was the earliest employment of man,
and which, as the light of science is spread
abroad and improvements are made in his
art, is becoming more interesting. more
profitable, and, at the same time, less
| laberiOus? With What different feelings do
the farmer and the merchant leave their
pillows in the m9rningl The one bouyant
with health and. spirit, goes forth with the
! first dawn of day to his cheerful labors in
the field, while the other, after a restless
and perhaps seepless night, walks, in a
sober mood to his counting-=oOm, anticipat-
ing, with fearful forebodings, the insolvency
| Of his customers or the ill-success of
venture With what honest pride and heart
felt satisfaction does the farmer look at his
luxuriant fields, his richly laden orchard
and his growing focks, with the happy as
surance that with every returning season
his substance is increasing; that he is above
want, and far from feeling the fluctuations
of merchandise, or the embarrassment of
trade Who that has seen the hale and
vigorous plowman VT istling along as he
turns up the burrows, and has not sighed for
the joys of PASTORAL life. Or, who has
enjoyed the privileges of witnessing the
internal arrangement of a thrifty farmers
establishments, and observed the care and
attention evinced in the domestic economy
of his indus trious and frugal wife, that has
not coveted the happiness and independence
of the farmer? Much as the wealth and
prosperity of a nation may be advanced and
promoted by its commerce and manufactures
still we are constrained to look upon agri-
culture as its source and foundation 1t is
absolutely necessary to our existence for
to let men pursue what ever other business
they may, they are still dependent on the
farmer for what they eat, drink and wear
And suppose the farmer by way of relaxa-
ton, occasionally deviates from his regular
routing of duties and engages little in
horticulture, or in the cultivation OF the
choice kinds of fruits, will be not be repaid
a thousand fold for the time and labor be-
slowed on few trees, vines and shrubs
And further, will not the appearance of his
house and front door yard" be immensely
improved, himself and family enjoy larger
amount of pleasure and gratifaction, not to
speak of the frequent lessons of neatness
and order which his children would learn
by the cultivation of a few varieties of
flowers And viii not these silent monitors
which so beautifully remind us that ''the
hand that made them is divine" also have
moral tendency and cause US to look