The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-06-06
Educating Farm Labor.

other departments of the worlds
Business, and most difficult to over
come. 1t has been 50 long the Gus
tom to single ont the smart boy OF
tho family for profession, 10. the
law, medicine or ministry, and to
put him forward rs so much in adj
vance Of the rost Of the family, that
it is difficult to comprehend That
those others who stay behind md de-
volop tho resources necessary to sup
port the favored ones professions
are not to be considered as inferior
beings. John must 90 to college,
James, William and George must DO
content to stay at home and work.
Three mouths schooling each win
ter, to post them in tho "rudlmcnts'
is considered ample to I'll them for
heir business.
They are to be farmers, John s'o
study law. lIo must have finer
clothes; moro spending money
books, in quantity high priced teach
ors and special advantages lenorully,
and this all vt the expense OF She
other boys. No books for them, no
amuscments or instruction, hardly Il
newspaper; no intercourse with cul-
turod society; nothing to raise them
above the drudgoTy of daily labor.
is it strange that .hey should "sour'
on farming? Is it strange that they
should seek to broak the bonds which
are 50 irksomo at tho first opportu-
nifty? Is there anything to oucoor-
ago them TO continue in the RUS now
worn SO deep and so mlry? Is 1t nat
ural that they should loyo the work
which thoy have performed under
compulsion?
No. The first opportunity to en-
gage in other employ mont, it mat
tcrs bu. little whn,, is car%"rly en-
brnosd. They will drive dr"y or
groom u horse, or carry tho hod;
anything TO get of the farm. And
vet farm life is culogiHed aud laudod
MS the most honorable, the most en-
joyablo occupation known to man.
and even so it may he. To the cul-
| turrd mind what ri afford more
pleasure than to watch the develop
mcnt Of the planted seed, lying dor
| mput pcrcbauco for years, waiting
the fultillmcut Of certain conditions
necessary to its growth; yet, when
those are supplied, bursting its pro-
tccting case and starting its tiny
rootlcts down into the earth aud
tho hla 'c or stem up i'll the air, gath
cring the clements of growth impcr-
ceptibly, but not less surely, until in
due season. it has reproduced its kind
perfect in development, The end
less variety of Natures productions,
Of vegetable, Nnimnl and insect life,
afford studios ample for tho longest
life timo, and comprehensive enough
to employ the strongest mind.
No problem in science, no intrica-
cy in the law, nothing in theology is
moro difficult Of comprehension
moro worthy of Thought, than arc
the causes producing tho effects cons
family presented 10 tllIcr OF the soil
Truo, there ia muscular labor con.
ncct-d with the mcuioi and some O
it quite hborious. But are not ON
muscles furnished for use as well aS
Our brains, and arc not both improy
cl by exercise? NIay they not work
harmoniousIy and to mutual advan-
tagc? We answer, most assurcdly
thcv may.
Instead thon, Of spending nll ou
substance upon the one member OF
the family, give all an equal chance.
Let the boy who chooses TO be n far,
mcr comprehend that the calling it
one of us high honor us is thcproFcs.
sional life; and furnish him iht
means to improve and cultivate his
mind, II, he improves and cultiVntcs
his land. Whom the idea becomes
thoroughly instilled amorg II far
mcrB that their occupation is MS hon.
CRADLE us any that boy can b0 train
ed to; WHOM they SEQ tho necessity
and act to it, Of educating the farm.
cr us we'll as the physician, then vii
agriculture advance in proper ion tc
other industries, which it now ca'
scarcely be claimed to do.
Our farm labor must be better ed
ucatcd. The hand that holds tn,
pillow, that scattors the seed, mus
be directed by intelligent thought
An ignorant man may dga hvinl
out of the ground; but i'll doing SO
unless by accident, he robs the sol
of fertility which II more intelli gen
course would compensate -F arm
er'S IdrOc0'c.
A clever old lady, apparently jus
arrived on u train from the country
entered one Of the rcircShmcu
rooms at the Springfield Railroa'
station the other day, and gazcd ca
wcrly about the apartment rs though