The Russellville Democrat., 1878-11-14
A,MsirIoNIN FARMING.


 the "Farmcr's Review" which we want every farmer in Pope county to read. It is as true as the gospel, and it IS upon point which needs the attention of our farmers. Just look at many of our farms: see the old rotten fences with weeds of many years growth choking every corner, see the sIoveDly cribs and stables see tine neglected and dilapldated gates; see the very poverty of some of The soil, when there are sufficient quantities of fertilizers lying around to make 1t rich; see the anything but home like appearance of the house and the household goods; see the scrawny, shabby. half starved stock; see all this and then say fl our farmers don't need spurring up and cxhorting 70 have 2 little more ambition in their calling But read the article itself, for it treats the master better than we can
 If there is one thing more than another lacking in the mind of the average farmer 1t is ambition. Am bition to excel as tiller of the soil, grower of the finest crops; ambi tion to breed the finest annals oi the best breeds; ambition to have model buildings. fences, hedges, lawns, trees, shrubs and flowers.
 When 2 young lawyer takes his position at the bar he takes it with the firm determination to eventually become the peer Of any man in the profession. Blessed with fair ability, unless through discouragements aud delays he weakens and falls, he pushes on for years, and step by step he wins position, honor, and fortune.
 So with men in other professions. An honorable ambition spurs them OH, obstacles are overcome, and at the end they can look down from the height they have cached, and with pride and satisfaction view the work of well spent life that has been . continued series of hard won yicto. ries, every one of which has brought its own reward in higher manhood and ip the noble example it has set for others.
 The merchant, the barker. the engineer, the inventor, the business man Of ali classes has before hirn ar ideal which he strives to reach with every energy of mind and body.
 But Is this so with young men born on tue farm and who intend to spend thelr lives there? Do they start out ln life for themselves with the 6rm resolve to be the best farmer in the neighborhnod, the towhe hip, the county, the State? Inspired with this laudahle ambition, lo they tabor persistenuy with brain and muscle to this end? Do they read, calcu late, observe, question, study, with this single purpose always before them?
 The farmer who is enthusiastic in his vocation, imparts his enthusiasm to everything around him. His wife does not lead the life of drudge, a slave, hut she walks side by side with him, her heart full of hope, her active mind suggesting and planning for others to perform. fhe children are inspired by the example every where before them. They take de. light in their active out door life, and a deep interest in the success of everything going on around them. They are born farmers, and there Is nothing that can allure them from farm life. Tue very domestic ami mals have an air of enterprise and thrift, and every acre of the farm seems ambitious to respond to the efforts and hopes of the owner.
 The ambitious farmer, if persist ent, is always successful. And sue cessful as a farmer he may he sue cessiul as man. He develnpes in culture and breadth. He has the confidence of the community in vi ich he lives. He Is called upon to fill the small but important neigh borhocd offices. He is commissiorer CT of highways. school director, justice of the peace. He fills these offices well. lis ability is strengthen, d. He is seht to legislate for the State. He knows the wants os the people and he works for them. A seat in Congress is within his reach. In fact, there need be no office within the gift of the people to which he may not aspire. But such man will never forget that he is farmer. Being a true man he thus ennohles his profession. He has no cause to be ashamed of it. To him there is no higher calling. And such men will convince, are convincing, the world, that there is no vocation higher or more honorable.
 For the good of the country. as we'll as for his individual good, it is the duty of the farmer tt be amhi. tious, to get out of the ruts, and assume all the rights and responsl biities of his position.
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