The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-09-23
From the Nashville Banner.
Let us strike Hands with the
Farmer.

a short time since we were engaged
in discussion with a respected agricul
turql contemporary in New York State
as to the possible advantages of nation
al agricultural organization. We as
sumed then and still hold to the position
that among the many and various mate
rial interests of the country represented
in national organizations, none could be
of more general benefit than such an or
ganization of the farmers of the United
States, irrespective of sections or modes
of husbandry. We cannot see how any
intelligent man could fail in the recog-
milton of so self evident a truth. Every
interest in the country, mercantile and
industrial, is totally dependent upon the
agricultural products of the farms and
the prosperity of the farmers.
The story of growing crops for good
or i'll at each successive harvest time, is
az accurate barometer of the financial
skies for that particular season. The
long visages of responding merchants
tell as unerringly the condition of the
market as the pulse of the sick man in
dieates his physical condition, and rice
UerSa.
Everything depends on the crops.
Money viii be plenty or scarce as the
yield from the farms is favorable or I'M
favorable. Consequently every material
interest-the callings of all men engaged
in any business whateyer-are imme
diately affected by the success or failure
of the farmer. Hence the importance of
all movements tending to the develop
meEt of the agricultural industries. The
failure of single crop affects, often
times disastrously the commerce of
section, while a like failure in any of
the chief staples Is attended with com
mereial disaster felt to the remotest con-
fines of the whole country, and not even
confined TO its boundary limits. Could
any interest, then. be more important
than the agricultural interest? Every
movement looking to the advancement of
the agriculture Of a State, or section or
nation, is movement, indirectly If not
Immediately concerning every mechanic,
merchant, artist, or any Of the profess
sional pursuits whereby men live and
provide the means Of subsistence for
their families Therefore the man who
shrugs his shoulders and turns his back
upon the local fair of his county, the
central fair of his State, or even so much
as the hint of programme for national
organization and national co operation Of
the husbandmen Of the country, sets his
face against bis own interest, and does
not rightly employ the faculties with
which bene6eent Creator hath endowed
him.
There is more "money" in this fair
business, We fancy, than many of US take
time to consider. Where all classes and
callings are so intimately concerned in
the prosperity Of the farmers, it Is to the
+ interest of all to encourage the agricultu
rists to a closer familiarity with each
others modes of husbandry, aud to slim
ulate by competition and otherwise more
/ intelligent systems Of farming. Enter
/ tanning these views we cherish an abid
ing faith in the general good that per-
/ adventure may follow the success of our
approaching Fail fair, together with the
prospective organization of a national
/ congress, in which our State shall be an
nually represented with every other State
Of the Union, and we urge again upon
/ our fellow citizens of all branches OF
commercial industry to interest them
selves in an enterprise of such usefulness
and promise.