The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-03-28
Ma Farmers Need.

What farmers need would be a
long story 10 tell. The first thing is
greater eaLhusiG8m in their profess
ion. Farmers generally place too
low an estimate on their calling;
they Judge Of it from its commercial
relations alone. Seeing merchants.
lawyers, middlemen, getting money
rapidly, making fortunes in single
season, they beHail the slow prog
ress to wealth their avocatiOn com
pels. But is there nothing desira-
bic but money? The esthetical
possibilities of the educated farmer
are beyond those of any other pro-
fession. Read Irving's sketch of
Rural Life in England" or White
heads PASTORAL and say if any
picture the artist ever placed or
canvass equals those described
| by these writer's. However the
farmer may be placed, or wherever,
he has in his hands the means to
touch here and there the canvass,
and make it more beautiful as the
years go on. The farmer should
possess his facsimile with an art
lists aspirations, and change and
beautify it, making 1t to bud and
blossom as the ose." A group of
trees, a single tree, viii change the
/ place-raise il sometimes from IMAM
ity to an almost speaking intel i
gence. Who has never planted a
tree and has not felt an interest in
its growth every year beyond that
of trees planted by othersS If a
fruit tree, has he not watched daily
the development Of fruit from flow
or to full ripened richness, and
when at last, full of the summer S
sun and dew and rain, it has fallen
to the ground, has he not taken it
carefully up, exhibited it to others,
and waited many days with a sort
of fondness asking to relationship
before sacrificing it on the altar OF
taste? An apple on the bOugh is
more than apple to him who plant
cd, tended and saw it through in
fancy, youth and age.
When the farmer considers that
he owes more to the farm than that
does to him, he will begin to be
worthy of it. 1t teaches justice. II
will give, but it must also receive
and its giving win be in propoIt ion
to its receiving, with this difference
that it takes our crude gifts anC
changes them into refined. and re
turns them things Of beauty" i
! will have us near; will have oul
care and sympathy,
The farm teaches integrity. NJ
shams allowed here; what you dC
must be we'll done; you must soy
. good seed; you cannot get figs 70
: thistles. You may cheat yourself
your neighbors; but yen eanno
deceive the farm. When the farm
er learns these things, he is bette
than money can make him.
The farmer needs perseverance il
a we'll considered plan. fla dairy
man, let him follow dairying throug
to its complete triumph. If mixe'
husbsndry is a specially land it is
good one J, then follow that, withou
( that unstableness often witnessed
We see, for instance, that when woo
. is a paying crop, the whole atten
tion will he given to sheep; a re
verse come, and then "pelting" wi
be the order of the day. Now
when pork is at low ebb, man.
farmers making small provision 70
a future crop, and the result will b
no hogs, or few, for sale when price
are renmnerative. The same
true OF horses, n large crop and
small demand; and too little al
tention to breeding such as viii pa
is the result.