Smyrna times., 1879-02-05
Wanted, $4,000 Young Men.

young men or more, to engage in progress
sive agriculture. Though soil culture EN-.
ploys more than halfthe people orthe country
who are engaged in any useful employ
ments, all other ranks of industry are
better filled than this. Agriculture fur
nishes the raw material for nearly all our
manufactures, yet while the factories and |
workshops are overburdened with skilled |
laborers, the harvest fields are too often |
worked by the poorest labor that strools |
the highway. Educated mechanics, for
merly successful merchants, and highly in.
telligent manufacturers are seeking en-
ployment by hundreds, but find the ranks
of their callings full, while agriculture has
plenty of room for such men. Thousands
of young men care adrift in the large
Cities" as has been very 'aptly stated,
"simply because they can do nothing that
anybody wants done" but let them 60 to
the farms of the country and they will find
abundant opportunity for intelligent, will
| ing labor; at low wages, it is true, but sure
to result in health and happiness, a thous-
and times better than the precarious exist
ence they maintain in the city. If the
trades and professions have no employment
for the myriads of idle hands, the farm can
furnish enough for all. The unoccupied
lands of the West, the abandoned farms of
the South, the many neglected fields all
over the East, all offer opportunities for
every idle man in the country to gain
bread, clothing, shelter, and ultimate COM
fort and happiness; for out Of the soil
comes all we eat and wear. We are not
urging that the tramps and vagabonds of
the cities be turned into farm laborers, for
tramp in the country is even greater
evil than tramp in the city, and it is quite
as impossible to make him work in the
fields as in tho shops and factories. But it
is the unemployed, intelligent, active work
men than can find useful employment on
the farm. And to intelligent young men,
and active men out of business, but posses.
sing some capital, from $1,000 upward,
agriculture holds out tempting promises,
and promises that she will fulfill to those
who work for them. There are few farm.
ers more successful than the merchant who
conducts his farming in the same prudent
yet intelligent business principles that gave
him success in trade. 1t is pleasant fact
to contemplate, that over four and one-hal
million acres of new land were actually oc
, cupied by settlers in the Western State:
, during the last fiscal year, and especially
pleasant when we consider that the settlers
were not emigrants from foreign countries
o as in former years, except to small degree
+ but were mostly from the overcrowdeC
q Eastern cities-many of the class abov'
described. The real estate dealers max,
- the statement, also, that the demand fo
small farms in the Eastern States has neve
o been so great as within the past year or two
This movement tends to an improved con
: dition of affairs for the whole nation, ant
We hope it will 60 on until the old ant
. proper balance between city and country
q restored. But to the young men jus
! coming upon the stage of action, agricul
ture offers special attractions. There
= great need among farmers of more educa
. ton in those branches of science that pei
= tain to the breeding and treatment Of an
,. mails, fertilizing the soil, growing plants
and all the various phases Of the calling
~ Those men who are familiar with tn
d advancing thought and practice of th
n time, and bring the most intelligence
&c their work, are the most successful farmer
= of to-day. SO it will be in the future t
% even greater degree, and those farmer
;r and others who desire their sons to becom
# successful, leading agriculturists, and prom
II nent in public affairs, should see to it tn;
these young men receive as good intelle
a tual training as those who are intended
10 embark in those callings that are UNIVERSAL
in admitted to require a liberal education
n Veterinary medicine, agricultural man
in featuring and trade, and even agricultur
90 journalism, are also open fields to your
. men educated in agricultural science al
IN practice. Last month, we gave an e
40 ample of what college. educated man hf
o. accomplished, by bringing his mental fact
te ties, disciplined by study, to bear upon
is. worn out farm, and then upon improv
to ments in dairying and even in pork-raisin
in There are multitudes of other similar tilt
n. trations. Like results usually follow lii
ID causes.-Amcrican AgrjculturiSt for February