Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-02
Farming sni N.ah~s.
EY HORACE cEEri.Ryl

| whether our loving Father AMI
| Friend has go ordered His creation
that obedience to His ccmmsnds
makes ns early wrnkled, oent, bald.
rheumatic, give MS the "har,l, shrunk,
shriveled look and DEGREES us to
"beqneath to our children iisniu isAed
stature and enieeb,ed fraunesn Gail
| Hamilton says such is the i:.la u "thc
actnal, hard working fa,mer'' which
most men are and must be-. My faith.
er was OF this class, as my only broth
cr Is SO were both my grandi;Ahers,
aud their ancestors, so tar as 1 easp
trace them. My paterusl grand:s,h-
cr raised ninc sons and tour danrh
;ers, and never was worth 5000 I'M
any one OF his 9i years My father
was AN unusually hard worker, al
ways farmer. never worth $1,000.
generally worth from Oup'to $500;
he died So yeas old, and five OF hrs
seven children survive, from go to 40
years old frhe two earliest died IN
i,iiancy) Ay uncle John, born two
wears after my father. has been a
farmer al his ife he IS now 81 wears
old, Int erect and vigorous; his eye
bright, and his voice as full and ring
ing rs most ot mems at 50. lie is tho
last OF the thirteen. cl idren Of my
grandfather; one only died Ut con-
sumption at thirty three years OF age,
leaving six children, OF whom five arc
still with US; the rest OF my fathers
brothers and sisters lived to he from
80 to 50 years old except one who
died at 90; and he was not an habit.
ual worker. All the rest were iasns,.
ers or farmers wives-none of .hen,s
over rich; most OF them quite poor;
yet not one OF them all WAS prerry
turely "wrinkled bent or t.ald;'' not
one Of them bequea.hed to his child b
rem. .(ands al OF them hadschiiiren)
Diminished stature" or "enfeeble,l
frames Here is large family OF
poor, and generally hard-worklny
farmers, the descendants otsa race or
Just such, who have lived by ,nlinr
the hard, rocky soil OF New Hamp
shire since the year 1910. / submit. :
the facts in opposition to Calls max
ed assertion. | happen. to be the only
one OF the crowd who might be cali
ed bald ] was more bent NJ AZ
than my father or his father at 10; aml
| am the only one who earned hps-
livelihood otherwise than by FARM
in..
Hut is farming hard work
To some, think it is. The very
poor have to take in. this, as in other
pursuits, the roughest and hardest
tasks. To clear land OF heavy timber,
rstones,;or stumps, is hard work; and
in farming, rs in other pursuits he
who cannot make his head available,
| must do the more with his hands.
The negroes Of Jamaica, accustomed
to "tote'' everything on their heads.
being supplied by their masters with
wheel barrows, lifted these with their
contents to the altitude OF their thick
skulls and walked off with them. |
should not wonder it this made
some OF them appear "ben:,n or even
',bald,' p,ssioly "rheumatica also. I.
so. they suffered, not from their ad
dition to tiilage. but from their lack
of intelligence-of brains. ,r
| My rural home is in township.
settled by Quakers, and still manly :
pcopled by thcr.. Nearly ak are
farmers; some poor, others in very
acknowledgements. am CON
fident they do not average four fair
days work per week, and that not
one among the hundred or so IS
'wrinkled.' ''bent," or bald by
reason OF excessive labor. | doubt
tha.,h.rc are 5 men among;thcm who
work or worked as hard at 80 as |
| do at 60 Yet all live comfortably,
and most of them are adding to their
worldly store. 5a .8a
/ Again
I When was farmers boy. the av-
erage OF farm-work was harder, that
| is, it required more muscular exer-
ton, than it now does. Moving and
reaping severely taXel The physical
energies of the stoutest, and they
were the chiet business Of the two.
hottest months Of each year. Now,
horses now and reap, men simply
guiding them. Hoeing corn. pota-
toes, etr.. drew the sweat out OF mo
profuseiA;. now, cultivation is mainly
| horse-Metk. In the West, farmer
rides ii his sulky, tiIling the vast ex-
panse ol corn. 1 SAW, last May, me-
gro ltis Of Ia wears running thirty
horse englncs on the rich, alluvial
plantail.ils OF the lower Mississippi,
| not merely plowing, but tilling crops
| of CROWN. cane i loot high. Negroes
latc., SAVES, guiding the plows ana
culti,aoes, which did tar better as.
well as cheaper work than horse pow
err ever ,il,I | have not doubt that
nine-t llhs OF the cultivation of the
great valley will be impelled by
steam within the next twenty years.
In other words, steam will do the
work, ,sir. eted by human intelligence.
And as last AS labor becomes lntelli--
gent, will a.udgerv cease. Elly aud.
Dinah will not use washing ma
! chine; when they abdicatc, their ed
ucatel mistress will not work with
out one. Aud so in other depart
m.nts. A,i now as to the city men.
OF iural birth, who stands erect, y
walks elas;ic' is At peace with him
self an the word. . s4 t.at
There are such, undoubtedly
Those who have achieved and succeed
ed can afford IT, But what porpor
tion do they bear to those who have.
rushed into cities and faiAsdy I.have
been kere. forty years, nett her
thougl.tless nor unobservant; and, in
my Judgment, more country boin
men have died here in prisons, hos
pitals and the alms-llonsc,i IN these