The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-06-09
No. %.
MAxIMs FOR AeR1cUIrURrsTs.

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cultural Association, at the State
Fair, with the following maxims
| Not to trespass too far upon your
patience let me close with few
maxims, applicable to cultivation in
every cline and under all circum-
stances, whether among populations
dense as that of China, or sparse as
that of British America.
I. only good farming pays. He
who sews or plants without reason
able assurance of good crops annual
ly, might better earn wages of some
capable neighbor than work for SO
poor paymaster as he is certain to
prove himself.
II The farmer is proved such by
the steady appreciation Of his crops
Any one may reap an ample harvest
from fertile. virgin soil the good
farmer alone grows good crops at
first, ard better and better ever af-
terward.
Ill. 1t is far easier to maintain
the productive capacity Of the farm
than to restore it, To exhaust its fe-
cundity, and then attempt its resto-
ration by buying costly commercial
fertilizers, is wasteful and irrational.
". The good farmer sells mainly
such products as are least erhaustiUe.
Necessity may constrain him, for TIE
first year or two, to sell grain, or
hay, but he will soon send of his
surplus mainly in the form of cotton
or wool, or meat, or butter and cheese
or something else that returns to the
soil nearly all that is taken from it.
A bank account daily drawn upon,
while nothingis deposited to its credit
must soon respond "No funds" so
with farm similarly treated.
V. Rotation is at least Negative
fertilization. 1t may not positively
enrich farm it will at least retard
and postpone its Impeachment
He who grows wheat after wheat,
corn after corn, for twenty years,
will need to emigrate before that
term is fulfilled. The same farm
cannot support nor endure him long
er than that. All our great wheat
growing sections, of fifty years ago
are wheat growing no longer; while
grows larger crops thereof
on the very fields that fed the armies
of Saxan Harold and William the
Conquerer. Rotation has preserved
these, as the lack of it ruined those.
vi. Wisdom is mever dear, pro-
uided the article be genuine. l have
known farmers who have toiled con-
stantIy from daybreak till dark, yet
died poor, because through ignorance
they wrought to disadvantage. If
every farmer would devote two hours
of each day to reading and reflection
there would be fewer failures in farm
ing than there are.
VII. The best Investment farm
er can make for his children as that
aOhich surrounds their youth sOih the
rational delights ofs beautiOuS, attrac-
the home. The dwellings may be
small and rude, yet a few flowers
will embellish, as choice fruit trees
will enrich and gladden. it: while
grass and shade are within reach of
the humbleSt Hardly any labor
done on a farm is SO profitable as
that which makes the wife and chill
dren fond and proud of their home.
VIII. a good, practical education
Including a good trade, IS q better out
tit for q youth, than q grand estate,
with the drawback of an empty mind.
Many parents have shaved and
pinchcd to leave Their children rich,
when half the sum thus lavished
would have profted them far more
had it been devoted to the cultiva-
ton of their minds, the enlighten-
ment of their capacity to think, OBJ
serve and work. The one structure
that no neighborhood can afford to
do without is the schoel-house.
TX. Il small library ofsCell-Selec-
ted books in his home has Saved many
youth from rendering into the bale
til wayS ofthe PrOdigaI Son. Where
maternal strictness and severity
would have bred nothing but dislike
and fixed resolve to abscond at the
first opportunity, good books and
pleasant surroundings have weaned
many youth from his first wild i'm
pulse to go to sea or cross the con-
tinent, and made him docile, con-
tented, obedient happy lingerer by
the parental Preside. In family,
however rich or poor, no other good
is SO cheap, so precious, as thought
full, watchful love,
X. Most men are born poor, but
no man sOhoA has average capacities and
toEerable means need remain so. And
the farmers calling, though profering
no sudden leaps, no ready short cuts
to opulence, is the surest of all ways
from poverty and want to comfort
and independence. Other men must
climb; the temperate, frugal, diligent,
provident farmer may grOsc into COM
petenee and every external accessory
to happiness. Each year of his de-