The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-18

a higher sounding but less valuable sphere.
If the day ever existed when the farmer |
had TO take his position any lower than the |
thinking man 1t is now gone forever L |
know Of farmer and mechanic in my own |
state, with hands hardened by the toll OF |
sixty yeare, who has found lime to write |
and publish in work of six or seven hun |
dred pages history of his native town |
ship.
/ know and can appreciate in a great
measure the feelings which call the farmer
away from his paternal acres to the bound
lees fields of the West, but If we count
among the rewards of life all the advan-
tages which make New England life desir-
able, the scale will fall in even balance at
least We have many hard acres from
which cultivation will bring no return, and
we must abandon many rugged spot where
all the efforts of husbSndry fail yet 1t will
| lie found that wherever nature is subject to
| hand and mind 1t has not failed to make
kind response, and New England may tie
said to be a paradise of small farms, and
the application of industry to small tracts
of land is as well rewarded as in any sec
lions of higher pretensons
1t is in mostly those countries where ag-
iiculturc is difficult that the most improved
methods are in use; and the greater Efforts
required to gain livelihood are an incen-
tive to thought and invention. The various
difficulties that are met and have to be over
come can never be overcome by hard labor
alone. In fact a man cannot be said to la
Dor at all who does not work with both
head and hands. Both are needed to de-
vclop favorably the products of the land.
/ It is said that 'the land only has to be tick
led with the hoe to laugh with harvest. y
am glad to observe in this full atten-
dance and in the excellent display of pro-
ducts and in the fine cattle, horses, and
sheep which arc always expected and look
ed for in this state, that on an occasion like
this YOU have not forgotten to take an in
, tercat in the fair. The one thing hitherto
lacking in most American fairs is that per-
sistent energy which takes hold of the OBJ
icct to be accomplished as ct real and tan
gible good. This exhibition of horses, cat
tic and sheep, and this display of products
of the soil, have Il purpose true to the prin-
ciples of those who believe in the future
prosperity of our county.
Let me urge upon you TO see that this
purpose docs net fail of its accomplish
inent. 4 mans individual efforts in bis
own town may do much, but associated
, with others must be vastly more profitable.
: If your fairs, local or state, are such as
they ought to be- it is your duty to take
hold and infuse into them the life worthy
of the real and high object they seek to
: serve. The change from the usual routine
! of farm labor will make these fairs a vel
r come holiday aud produce beneficial cf.
q feet. No man can plod along in one beat.
en- path all his lifetime without contract
] ing a certain narrowness of habit and
| thought which will prevent him from the
. exercise Of bis faculties to the best advan-
4 tsge. Farming, when followed with AZ
q eve to what our neighbors are doing, ant
f with the desire to know all that has beer
+, known and to read all that has been writ
:. ten on the subject, must tend to Strengthen
/ the mind as well as the body. ! expect t.
see the time when the great agriculturis
= would no mere think of following his bust
r ness without good library than if he oc
d cupied the position of minister.
d There are many sound reasons why youns
. mon should make scientific farming pur
: suit. There is always room, and to thos,
?. who wait snxiOusly watching the over
v crowded channels of life in cur large cite
: banging on to the silken hooks of oflicia
d life, or waiting for the realization of tina
!. dream which can never come to paes 81
l. long as honor and honesty are kept in sigh
| would say better stay upon the farm, es
, pecially if you have had the good FORUM
q to have been born there There Away
Q has been and will he q demand for all tina
o. can be raised, and prices are likely in FIJI
. ture to be such as shall give the laborer hi
Is hire. Ia conclusion let me say to you tina
a when a young man puts to himself tn
|. question ''What shall | do for a living?
h let the noble pursuit of agriculture have
is fair consideration.