The bee., 1877-08-02


 ling hIs mind about the worlds supply
 of food, and how to keep ihc boys on he farm, he really thinks his business Is d. ready oyerdone, and that he has more competition than he likes He knows that many miliona of bushels of wheat
 are exported from the western side of
 the continent, which fact lowers the
 price of his own crops in England, and
 he ku0ws that so much wool Is produced ! that the price is constantly falling, and as he studies the shadows that are cast ! before my coming events" he anxiously looks for markets for all that is now produced by farmers. He encourages {; manufacturing, that he may have con
 sumers toIeat and to wear. s. far from
 takinga gloomy view of the 50 much
 deprecated increase of city and village
 population, he rejoices that mouths to eat are multiplying, and really he now ! thinks that there is an abundance for All. Every addition to his market--such as the exp6ftation of meat to England--he
 nails with joy, and feels that however
 extensivelthe new demand may prove, our country is equal to it's supply and : that liberal compensation to tho food producer will quicken and make prosper
 ous every other branch of business. / May 1t not be truly said, that liberal com
 pensalicn elevates the receiver in any fand all 6ranches of business, and is it not equally true that poor compensation
 will sooner or later degradeY
 In the article on the Life and Work
 of the Eastern Farmer" we have his case described as deplorable. He is said z 10 have no relief from constant toil:
 His house is par, of his farm; his fire
 side is shared by an nncongenial hired man his family circle includes too often a vulgar and uninteresting servant, and from one year to another thisliving room being kitchena and work room of tbe busy 'farlth6use) he rarely knows what it is to 'diyest himself of the surroundings of his labor and business, and to give himself over to the needed domestic enjoyment and recreation. It is this feature of his life, more than any other, which seems objectionable. Ii it is objectionable for him, 1t is infinitely more so for his wife and daughters who, lacking the frequent visit to ,iie town or occasional chat with
 strangers. and invigorating effect of foper-air work, yield all the more com
 pletely to depressing cares"
 / So much for his home-life. Now let
 us hear of his reward. "Thc conditions of the industry are hard, chiefly because the business of farming is laborious
 one, and one in which an enormous pop. fulation is working with dogged industry, for moderate reward. However enter Fprising and intelligent farmer may be, when he goes to market to sell his crops
 he finds himself in active competition with men who are working for their bare
 subsistence" < x .".Those who knJw the conditions of the art intimately, and who have studied the influences of it's work and its life upon those who are en.
 gagged in it, recognize serious drawbacks which must in some way he removed,
 unless it is to fall away still more from
 it's original character, and be given over
 to German andt Irish immigrants, who. during one or two generations, will be
 content with what it has to offer.' :" If this picture of New England far
 mer, drawn as it is, hy a gentleman,
 scholar, and one of the fraternity, be ac tcepled, the thought at once comes up,
 why try to keep the farmers sons and
 daughters on the farm? Why not let immigrants from the old world succeed this unhappy race of owners, who,' in
 generation or two, it is intimated, would cease to enjoy themselves by having 'ris fsh or stink (whichever it may bel to the
 level of the Yankee of today?
 ? But it is proposed to remedy all this
 by removing the farmers from their farms to villages, where they may have
 greater social advantages, thus doing away with one of the greatest draw
 backs of the life of the American far
 mer." After the chores are done, and
 8 hearty and substantial supper is eaten -the principal meal of the day-all
 hands will be too weary for much enjoy ment of the evening, but not so weary
 that they will not appreciate the differ.
 ence between the lounging places of