The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-12-06


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rest n The industrial world has
been mak lng great strides Nv I'm.
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genius and engineering skill are
ding work ~ the farmer, but the
effatt ~ one II olstfuctsd by the
difficulties, unknown ~ dsnsely
populated industrial cmnmnnities,
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lefeourss and intsfchangom anowl
edge and IDEAS, and tho benefits n
tho successive improvements " the
other are impaired through the
lack " opportunity ff compafa.
tive observation
The manufacturer has his agents
and correspondents all over the
world directly or indirectly, In.
forming him " improved methods,
aud his las operative ia advanced
ia his industrial education by the
various observations thus made.
But the farmer has no travelling
agent, and only near correspon.
dents. What is brought 10 his
inspection in the way Of improved
methods IA brought TO his atten-
ton by some one whose purpose is
not TO tell him what improve.
monts have been made, but to sell
him the particular article that he
has for sale. Unlike the manu-
facturer, the farmer can not go out
or send out and look over the field
Of improvement for himself; he
must wait until some one brings
something to his notice. What the
farmer needs is knowledge Of the
soil, Of its various possible prod.
ucts, and the application Of me.
chanical forces ~ u substitute for
hand labor. To learn these he
needs to get an occasional look at
the industrial world Of which he is
a part, but the vision Of which is
ordinarily bounded by his own
fences. Though one Of the earliest
workers, he took a late start in
improvement. The common
water-whcel was not known until
more than one hundred years after
Christ, and for more than a thou
sand years thereafter the winds
swept over Europe without turn
ing II single mill. Steam came
aud carried his products, after
they has gone into tho hands Of
others, to distant markets, but the
portable engine came 10 him very
late. Chemistry grew into a
science, but the chemistry Of the
soil was one Of the late inquiries.
Weapons Of war, ship-building,
the telegraph, means Of t%ranspor-
tation, labor.saving machinery IN
the workshop and factories, be-
came general before mechanical
appliances, except in the crudest
form, were seen ON the farm. I'm.
I'll recently the farmer has been
left to work out his own destiny,
without even the cooperation Of
his Co worker.
Now all this has changed, and
high effort is now being made to
place agriculture in the front line
of industrial improvement. All
the farmer needs now is the chance
to see and observe, and that oppor.
tunity shound be furnished him
whenever the opportunity is pos
sible. His county fair is not suni-
cient for this, because he and the
great interests to which he belongs
have passed \ step beyond the
county fair as a sufficient opportu.
nifty TO see his world. Heretofore
the great expositions have been
mainly devoted to manufacturing
industries and the arts, and the
farmer, if given place, has gener.
ally been given an obscure place.
The project started by tho South.
ern Exposition Company for a
national agricultural exhibition q.
Louisville is designed TO make q
general exhibition Of the natural
and agricultural products Of our
whole country, and to give the
farming interest a prominence il
has never enjoyed in any other
exposition. The Exposition
Company offer their halfmillion
dollars worth Of buildings, proper
ty, and grounds for this purpose,
and the General Government is
asked to contribute half Il million
dollars to the same purpose to put
the exhibition ON a still more ex
tended scale, appropriate to the
important interests which will be
concerned in the success Of the en-.
terprise.