The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-06-26
THE FARMERs, YINDICAToR.


that would rise to the dignity Of a sy
tenn. Every department Of Souther
. agriculture, under the crude mode
which it has been conducted, not onl
! paralyzes by its destructive processe
!. but disgusts by the repulsive feature
. incident to it.
q AS WE SURVEY OUR SOUTHERN LAM
5 we find its soil fast degenerating int
sterility, by reason of the exhaustiv
, processes to which it is subjected
: through unwise tillage, and the ute
: absence of any return to it throug
, judicious fertilization. IF this destruc
tive policy is not speedily abandoned
and more rational processes adopted
we longer ignore the superior advan
tages of science and fail to apply it
all-powerful agency to a restoration o
our degenerated soil; if we continue t,
set idly by and see the only basis 0
wealth, prosperity, and of existence it
self, passing away, day by day; ant
because our fathers did it, so must VIZ
continue to do, we will realize wher
too late to remedy the evil, the unpala
table fact that our own folly has
brought disaster and ruin, more signal
than war.
And when we further examine into
our implements of agriculture, how
miserably do they fail to meet the de-
mands Of the times, and how wretch
eddy do they fall in the scale, by COM
parison, with those used by more en-
| lightened and skillful husbandry. We
are Flooding along, to-day, with the
same plows, but little improved, that
broke the fallow ground Of our ances-
tors; pursuing the same modes of cul-
ture, raising the same productions, and
still miserably failing to demonstrate
the problem that vexed and defed the
ingenuity Of century ago.
HOW GRANDLY DO THE OTHER DEPART
MENTs OF LIES INDUSTRIES
rise in the scale of comparison. Our
learned professions, without i'll founded
pretention, assume to have almost
achieved perfection. Our theologians,
through ages Of enquiry and untiring
investigation, have penetrated deep
into the mysteries that cluster about
the Godhead. The mechanic arts have
risen to SO high a degree as to invest
life with the splendid equipage that
sprang, full-robed at the touch Of the
tabled lamp. Our ocean marine now
plows the fretted waves Of every sea,
guided in safety by the discoveries that
emaDated from the genius Of Maury, |
and rendered his
"One of the few, the immortal names
That were not born to die
And in pursuing this line of thought,
we find in every department of life's
great and small pursuits, that they are,
through the intelligent application of
scientific processes, rapidly rising in
The scale of development, and fast APP
preaching the miIleunial glory that
clusters about the grand end Of all
utilization.
In view of the splendor of the
achievements of every other depart
nent of the worlds varied professions,
7hy may we not hope that agriculture,
90, may rise from ignoble sleep, and
ct demonstrate its capacity to attain
quail perfection, and rise to positions
f like exaltation.
SAY THAT WE CANNOT REMEDY THE /
EVILS THAT ARE UPON US; f
lat we cannot grapple successfully 0
it'll the difficulties that surround us; o
lat we cannot arouse from the lethargy r.
lat binds us to systems so long demon a
rated to be unwise; that agricultural tx
fence is But the delusive dream of 81
e visionary enthusiast and the play CO
ing of brainless pretenders, is to adj re
it that agriculturists are wanting in tt
ergy and deficient in that grandest
all created agencies. God-given in to
llect. Iii
TO demonstrate the fallacy of so CT
onstrous an absurdity, it is only nee as
'ary to cite a few of the illustrious We
mes connected, directly or indirectly, in
tn agriculture. Washington, upon
lom a grateful country conferred its o
CHEST honors, and engraved his name al
ep upon the entablatures of immor- n
ity, commenced life farmer and We
ID a farmer. The Mill Boy of Ken de
ky, who rose to the highest pinnacle no
American fame; whose eloquence W
chained the breathless attention of joi
mates, and whose sagacity outmatch- pr
the wiley ingenuity of the most fol
lied engineers of European diploma it
retired as often as possible from the sp
luous duties of public service and tri
Dyed more exquisite pleasure in the op
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