Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-01

time Nhfu atleasi n my nriEaisqfl5sasi-
the fac, that a young man vas attending
an academy, va considered prima faeie
evidence Of biz aspiring to some learned
profession. bus fall believe that nc
shall fnd the sane principle, though to q
less degree, working greatly to the disad-
vantage Of every farming community.
IL there is any thing that tends 70 crush
cut al IDEAS Of taste and nesiness. il i
to be forever surrounded By unseemly OBJ
jecis and slovcnly management. Did any
Of YOU ever think that that old tumble
down wall by the roadside, with ITS fringe
Of thisiles and bushes, or that old rotten
fence with its leaning posts in front Of the
farm, or that miry slop-hole at the back
door, or that rickeiy old she'd, or that
gate or barn door sagging upon its hinges,
or those loose boards on the barn rattling
in the wind; did you ever think, | ask,
that any or all Of these things we're teach
ing your sons to become slack and sloven-
ly farmers, if not TO hate the very idea
Of farming? But girls are of as much
consequence as boys, and did you ever
think that that ill-contrved kitchen OF
milk room, or that front-yard garden with
out a flower or shrub, or that square
room" without any furniture in it. was
educating them to regard the position Of
a farmers wife as that of a mere drudge,
and to fall in love with the first simpleton
who came along wearing fashionable APP
parel and whose hands were not hardened
with honest toll d?
Did you ever think as you saw your
noble boys setting out for the village
for an afternoon recreation that there was
any danger of their falling in with bad
associates and forming bad habits? and il
you have, has it never occurred to you that
they might be kept at home and well sat
isfed at a triaing expense, by setting out
a smooth lawn with croquet or something
of that description and encouraging them
to invite their neighborhood associates TO
join in their amusement, or by putting up
a rustic swing in the shade of those trees
which it is to be hoped you planted be-
fore the romance of your own youthful
love gave place to the perplexing cares of
more mature life? Indeed would not you
yourself, smooth out some of those care
wrinkles by occasionally playing boy by
joining in the amusements? Did you
never think as you come from the swelter-
ing heat of the bayfield, with the Their
at 80 > in the s'ade, how pleas
art it would be to take your dinner in a
cool arbor covered with vines, which
might easil y-rcsut from the labor of some
dull day? But | almcs, suspect that some
of you are thinking:-"l am not able to
have fine buildings with elegant surround
ings." have not urged elegance, but |
do demand neatness, and if you cannot
afford that, fear you will never secure
by farming
If it will pay to clear up that hedge
over in the rocky back pasture to get lit
tie more feed, will it not pay to clear the
bushes from the roadside, pick up the
stones, level it off and NOW it? lift will
pay to keep that new buggy carefully COW
cred up in dry place, will it not also
pay to keep your moving machine, sleds,
and carts under cover? How many times
have you paid the penalty Of slovenliness
by coming to the conclusion after half.
hours search for an iron.bar that it was
over in the back pasture where you left it
a week ago?
But must not take up more of your
time. If you have thought of these things
and done all in your power to secure them,
you are good farmer; if you have not
thought of them, you have neglected an
important duty which you owe to the COM
munity and your own family in particular ;
K you have thought of them and unnec-
essarily neglected them, you have commit
ted sin and richly deserve to have your
grown-up children leave you and hate your
occupation and have your neighbors hold
you up before their children as an exam
pie which they should not follow. You
may ridcule the idea of rustic arbors and
shade trees, flower gardens and neat fen
cos, and say that they will not bring to
worn-out fields or secure good crops, but
do not forget that they will help to make
your work labor of love and secure con-
tentment and happiness in the hearts of
your family. | do not propose to dictate
or suggest to the members of this Club,
but it would give me much pleasure to
have you lay aside for one evening, plow-
ing and draining, planting and feeding,
and discuss the question How can we
keep our boys at home contented to carry
on the farm wnen we are old?