The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08

N~ANNA
climate. To look IN all these different
ways, and correctly com prehend the stu
alton. that advantage may be taken Of
every favorable opportunity, require the
judgment of a carefully trained and we'll
balanced mind Such an education is out
of the reach Of this generation of farmers,
but there are many ways by which knwol-
edge may be gained by them, if it is
sought after, for, like everything possess
ing value, it can only be had by paying
the price.
Next to the agricultural press, farmers
clubs and oranges should be the most &C
tive sources for the dissemination of
knowledge. Il is your right to expect
them to fulfil their mission, and your duty
to aid them IN doing it. But do not for
get they are farmers organizations, and
that consequently the most of their dis
cussion should be of the farmers bust
ness. There is greater hope of the man
who asks how lie can best improve his
stock, than of the one who offers reso-
luton condemning the patent laws. Those
laws may want amending, but the frat
thing for every one to DO is to pluck the
mote of unsuccessful cultivation out Of
his own eye. When he has done this, the
beam of monopoly by patent, Will appear
tic aim of small size. Let you: own I'M
mediate interests receive the first ate
ton Let it not for ore moment be for
gotten that you are farmers, working to-
gether to advance the farmers calling.
Again it will be well for you to remem
Der that the history of"Uniona" show
item to have been so often sources of evil
as Of good, to those for whose special ad
vantage they were created. Let it not be
SO in the farmers Unions that have so
wide a field Of usefulness before them.
BE Jealous Of your rights as farmers aud
as men. Guard them we'll. But let no
hasty or ili-considered action, no passion
ate Judgment, no selfish desire of aspiring
ambition betray you into showing that
you have not equally high regard for the
rights of others. Let these organizations
bear steadily, manfully forward, toward
the mark of the prize of their high call
lug, and their career shall be a great and
grand one, for the good they shall accom-
plish
Finally. [ would say that intelligent
farming has always been profitable occu-
patton. 1t is to-day, and it will always be
SO. By their fruits you shall know who
are the intelligent farmers. They are
successful, not because they work harder
than other men, nor because their lands
are more fertile, nor because wool grows
fiuer upon their shep. nor because their
milk makes more butter and cheese, but
because their tabor is more wisely direct.
ed.
The best genera! is not necessarily the
Que who IS most fearless in leading
charge upon the enemy's works. But be
is the one who, remembering there are
blows to take as we'll as to give, careful
~ surveys his ssituation, and skillfuly
attacks the enemy at their weakest point,
In the farmers battle of life there are
forces at work both for and against him
He viii be the most successful who mos
'killfully combines to overcome oppos-
ING forces. We must not be satisfied
with saying that farmers to-day are more
intelligent than were those Of fifty years
ago. Every man may measure his intel
igence in his business by his success,
nd just in the proportion in which his
Intelligence increases, will bis success
increase.