The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-18
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Traveller" ha> been iellin. tie llaAoi.
folks what he knows about Farming.
Here i an extract which hit> oii the cu>
tomary custom OF selecting a lawyer Z
lecture farmers: -
u am a poor smatterer in politics
law. literature and theology, a tyro II
~tatecrait. and a pumpkin IA society
but. a. a theoretical uller Of the soil.
am a master of arts a real >ilNcr-platcs
.rand-luniandrum - orchard, meadow
field ana told. aud old hc-C crr> ana
Pomona melted into one. with Pan ~
two thrown iii 10 boot. Though no.
body'> husband. | am a paragon %
hu>hAndry. | have been soaked IN the
deepest and cleareSt fountains ~ a-ri'
cultural. horticultural horticultural. ar
borculturll and neutrality-suspicious.
cultural lore. | am learned IN the ped
igret> and pcCuliaritle> OF thoroughbred
Maltese legislators and cunvenuoners.
Durham pl->. Berkshire rams, long
wooded Cut>wnld hcliers, and pure I'M
ported ~outhdown ponies. | am a con,
noi>~cur Oh Poland China pullets. Bra
m~ah-PoOtrah calves, short-horn Alder
ney turkeys and MuscoVy geese. VIII
my right hand tied behind me, and q
patcut-nipper clothes-pln on ml nose. |
can tell a hawk from a guinea fowl, {
huckleberry from agreen pcrsimmon.
sas>atras vine from 4 sweet potato bush
auda yellow-iacket rom a ~honcN-hcc
With tile aid of a halt-pint microscope
three builo-cyc ~pettaclc>. a guide boob
ana a palmleat Tan. | can distinguish
new wheat from 'old rye" raw pump
kins from stewed watermelou>. doodle
bugs ron gallinippers. toad>tools from
lobbv-benches. bob-tailed apes from
Watering place beauN and professional.
societv-men. and everything from every
thing else. except mammoth donkey>
from average congrcssmcn and con.
4~rcs,ional delegates.
With all thi, immensely Of knowledge.
mounted oratoricallv on a tamaracb
stump. sorghum barrel or ham-and-
shoulder ho.shead with q picture~qu,
background of hen-coop>. red wagons.
patent churn> and hay-rakes, p~lcklc-jar-
and kaleidoscopically ~variegatcd bed
quilts-garnished on every side with mon
stcr squa>hes. biz beets. fiat Dutch cab
bage heads (stronyly suggestive of MANY
of u alleged statesmen), fall plppinr
and early rose potatocS-and accom-
panied by the low. sweet melody 81
cackling hens. Drawing mules, hawlin-
calves. bleating sheep and squcalin-
Swine-I am Il lit average for a new and
better era III Dakotan agriculture -
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. What
a chance for pastoral immortality,
Seriously. | believe i'll fairs. They
cultivate the cultivator. The bcgct Il
generous emulation that stimulates mn
provement in farm and farmer. lightcn-
farm abor.increa>cS farm products. and
beauties and bcatities farm life.
We should have county fairs, and dis
trict fairs. and one great. central terri
torial or Soon-to-be-State fair. They
should be the yearly general meeting
places OF our people where views and
opinions, experiences, hopes. fears and
aspirations could be exchanged on all
topics of common interest; the grand
market-places OF ideas and social amen
tiles. as well a eNpositions of mammoth
pumpkins. worSted qualities and baby
donkeys. Every city. town, village and
hamlet should send to these autumal
c~onNOcatIOnS Its trueSt men and ~lOvclicSt
omen
The venerable small-patch granger
should swap wisdom and Jokes. talk
crops, politics and booms. and exchange
treats-(of cider and soda-watcr)-with
his broadclothed and Decentralization
chained brother Of the archducal bon
ANA farm and the grayhaired mothers
IN Israel should pour into each 9TH
cr,s ears and bosoms mutual woes and
Joys III the chicken cholera. Group and
s~erNants-glrl line, with nOne to modest
or make them afraid: while the Young
beauN and bellies of the worlds grundest
graln-tields and gold-mincS should CLASP
hands Ill the gay evening hop, and bet
on the bobtailed bay during the gala
day.
Through these county. district and
territorial or state meetings, we would
learn to know each other better. the
feeling of common motherhood would be
strengthen. petty sectionalisms would
die out, and our whole people-now new.
II strangers II to another-Would be
blended INTO II grand homogeneous
family of North Carolina. 1t was to
Their annual assemblies that the Jews
owed much of that intense
that affection. which enabled them.
with scarcely a decent Dakota county
OF territory. for ages to resist the arms
Il c%orrupting Establishments Of the
heather world. 1t was there annual in
~tercourse at the great Olympic. Isthmian
II Pythian games that welded the
Wranglmg and discordant tribes OF
Greece's sterile little tiint-rock patch
INTO mighty phalanx. moved by a single
soul and reslstless as the swoop of an
Alpine avalanche or ocean tempest. that
made them ultimately conquerer and
laWgivers of the globe.
Such assemblies. such yearly reunions,
such brecding-places OF good-fellowshil
ana earnest kinship, our fairs should be
II can be made.
Let Us. like Babcl's famous architects.
ann high and all speak one language.
until we nave built up. first, county and
dlstrlcttalrs. and then one great territorial
or commOnwealthian fair, that shall tie
an honor to ourselves and to our terrific
ry-that shall bring Us all together. in
peace and friendship. once a year. and.
though we are strangers now. bind IL,
heart to heart and hand to hand in the
bonds Of "A common brotherhood anC
SisterhoOd.
Wilmington Star: Considerable excite