Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-09-21
NEW SERIES--V0L. %, NO. 81

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Of travel necessary for the public con
venienoe. In the richest rural count,
in the Commonwealth it is the re
proach Of its capital oity--a centre o
trade and population before the revolu
= tion-that almost every road leading
into it is obstructed by Oll.bar, tht
rates being nearly as high as railroad
fares and so general is the embargo
on trade that even on one of the public
streets, within the limits Of Lancas
ter, corporation, by the grace ol
legislative deformity, swings its gate
across the highway, and public senti.
ment is dull to an imposition which is
as great as that for which our fathers
raised the tempest in a teapot IN Bos-
ten century ago.
BROADER LEARNING.
The study of no science nor art
within the whole range of liberal cul.
ture will be inconsistent with, or lack
opportunity for development in the OK.
perience Of the educated and advanced
farmer of the future Most of all,
plainly, will the very extended study
of the natural science claim bis atten.
tion and serve his practical purposes.
Botany, no less than chemistry, is q
study which must engage the attention,
and il will soon enchain the interest OF
the scientific farmer and to him who,
in the long Winter nights of leisure
or in the gray dawn of an early rising,
instinctively turns his eyes to the
beauties and wonders of the heavens,
the science OF astronomy, now made
popular and full of poetry and legend,
will be source OF entertainment and
profit. Walking with his head among
the stars and his feet amid the flowers,
inhaling the fragrance of nature,
awed by her grandeur, inspired by her
eloquence and entranced by her beauty,
the farmer feels his lordship over ma.
ture and his kinship with its creator.
The employment of steam power for
farm work opens a wide field ofinter.
esting gand practical education geology
may teach the constituents of the soil
and chemistry dissolve them scientific
forecasts of the weather are a develop
ment of meteorology, the dim of posi-.
bilities Of which are of tremendous i'm.
portance to the agriculturalist, involv.
ing not only the probabilities" Of the
weather but its measurable control
He may yet ride the whirlwind and
direct the storm. Partial relief from
drouth and regulation OF rainfall are
not beyond the dream OF our modern
science which sets its ladders against
tho sky.
COMFORTS OF LIVING.
The selection of eligible locations for
buildings their proper arrangement
and most convenient construction; the
sanitary regulation Of their relative
position so that foul odors and i'll
drainage may not offend the senses
and poison the atmosphere the cree.
ton of farm houses with view to
proper architectural effect, for the
beauty OF the landscape and the com.
fort and economy Of their occupants
the encouragement and practice of
Horticulture; the refnements of homo
life, in the cultivation of music, litera.
ture and the fine arts; the accumula.
tion Of private libraries the diffusion
of local and agricultural newspapers
and periodicals, are a few of many
other signs of the higher agricultural
life, now happily outcroping in this
community and calculated TO bear rich
fruit in early generations. To them
may be added the liberal patronage
and earnest maintenance in every sec.
tion of regular associations and ex.
hibits calculated to disseminate agri.
cultural information, to test new and
competing. implements, to investigate
and relieve diseases OF stock or failure
of crops, to discuss and pass judgment
upon new methods, TO expose frauds,
and, in general, to promote all the ends
of agriculture.
Secure as the past of the East Penn
sylvanla farmer is, his future may yet
be better His opportunities are such
that he need fear no competition in
their development. Improved modes
and versatility of resources promise
abundant return for disbursement and
his labor, while the steadily improving
refnements of home life and social
culture will lend charm to the old
monotony and average the long periods
Of dullness succeeded by stretches Of
overwork. Horace Greeley, who knew
far more about farming and did more
for it than he usually is credited with,
said "The highest fruition ofall labor
is man." OF no industry is this so
true as of an enlightened and progress.
i've agriculture.
For seven hundred years stone
post near Cairo has marked the rise
and overflow of the river and set the
time for old Egypts festival of rejoic-
ing that her harvest was assured Far
down the centuries the prosperity of
our agricultural interests shall continue
to be the Nilometer of national great.
ness and the sign to all people of our
advancement in the march Of civiliza-
ton.
Speed the plow and speed the harrow
Peace and plenty send abroad.
Better far the spade and barrow
Than the cannon or the sword
Each invention, each Improvement,
Renders weak oppres,on's rod
Every sign and every movement
Brings US nearer truth aud God.
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