Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-07
THE HERALD.



Farmers, as q class, are said to dis
like study, and care but little for
reading other than newspapers, and,
perhaps, now and them some light
reading and the remark in a general
sense, has more truth in it than most
of farmers would like to admit. The
farmer who is closely employed all
day-perhaps from daylight until
dark-at the various labors incident
to the farm, and perhaps exposed to
the inclemency of the weather, his
supper eaten, is generally so tired
that reading is not only irksome, but
often impossible. The eyes tire, be-
come dim, close, and he goes fast
asleep.
A tired body is not in exactly the
proper condition for study. And
with farmers, as a class, this is more
true than with the other professions,
simply for the reason that the habit
of study has not been acquired in
youth, To the young farmer, there
fore, who is seeking TO improve him
self in his profession, and become &C
quainted with improved systems of
Agriculture, it is absolutely neces-
sary that he should set apart GER
tain portion Of each day for the pur-
pose of study, and no parent is justiti-
ed in so working child as to infringe
upon this time, even ifit be only one
hour day.
There is no time better for this
study than the early morning, because
many of the operations Of the farm
enable one 20 reflect upon what is
read, 1T the same time that the actual
labor is going on and once this habit
Of thought is systematized, II will be
found to be comparatively easy. Such
one will soon find that his mind will
be led into entirely new channels,
upon q voyage of discovery for itself.
Having mastered an ordinary Eng
lish education, q course of reading
will soon enable the average student
TO take the sense of an author with
Out porting over every word, and the
earnest endeavOr to remember will
soon give him the power to fix in his
memory ideas that would otherwise
require many readings to commit.
Mere committing an author to mem
DRY has seldom been Of much adj
vantage TO the student, but the gath
oring ideas, and the thought incident
to their elaboration, is what expands
the mind.
Among the many books chat may
be Of advan age TO the farmer, are
those telling how plants grow, how
crops grow, how crops feed and, in
connection with the first named,
Gray's Manual OF Botany will be
found useful; Harris Insects In
furious to Vegetation Animals and
plants under D0mestication The
Poultry Book, by Tegetmeir Amer
lean Weeds and Useful Plants Veg
etabes OF America Gardening Tor
Profit Sinai Fruit Culturist Flow
ers for the Parlor and Garden The
Horse of America and Downings
Landscape HARDENING Much useful
Information may DO cleaned from ru-
raj affairs, and anhuals issued by the
Agricultural press. The Transact
ions Of the various Agricultural and
horticultural Societies are valuable :;
and from the files Of any Of the agri-
cultural and horticultural journals,
much valuable and interesting infor-
nation may DO CLEANED, if, indeed,
they have been, as ,hey should be,
preserved and bound.
70 acquire taste for reading, IL
must be persisted in, and there is
certainly nothing that should interest
the farmer more than the experience
OF those who have become eminent
in any Of the various branches of bis
calling; now that the Book-farming
has ceased to DO sneered at, because
we really are getting an Agricultu-
raj literature,it behoOves every farm
CIR who would keep pace with the
cgory day progress that is being
made in his profession, to keep him
self posted in that which is new
therein, that be may make equal
progress with others. What farmers
should study, whether from books or
nature, is that which pertains to their
profession and not until farmers
learn to study as we'll as labor, shall
we make any great progress in az
rlcultural seience.-Interjor.
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