Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-31
AGkICULTURAL FAIRS.
Judge Walter Franklin Gives the Grand Jur
men q Farmers Address.

Judge Walter Franklin Gives the Grand Jury
men . Farmers Address.
At the August quarter sessions OF the same
year, Judge Walter Franklin, of Lancaster
county, indulged in extended remarks to
the grand jury upon the subject OF agricul-
tural repairs. The members of the grand
inquest were so well pleased with it that
they secured its publication. 1t seems that
an act of the legislature had been recently
passed to promote domestic manufactures
and agriculture and providing for a county
appropriation to societies organized and en-
hibitions given for this purpose In view of
the arrangements now making for the fall
fair in Lancaster on scale of great magni-
tude, these extracts from Judge Frsnklin's
charge to the grand jury of olden time will
be read with great interest
wish to impress you, gentlemen, with the
importance Of this subject, as it affects the
vital interests of our country I; particularly at
time when our foreign markets are almost
destroyed, and We must learn to establish
our prosperity on the interchange OF com
modities within our own limits. This will
produce solid Independence, teach us the
value Of our connections with one another
and bind us IN bonds of mutual interest
The struggle has heretofore been (and a IA
tai one 1t has proved) to get rich. The en-
deavor now must be how TO live in comfort
and plenty,
The consumption and use of the necessa-
ries and conveniences OF life by ten millions
OF people, and the demands for the materials
OF domestic man ufactures, cannot fail to af-
ford to every quarter of our Union the means
OF substantial enjoyment Industry must
take the place OF hazardous speculation, and
gality must succeed extravaganza. We
. u then be taught to live within our means,
& {& this will easily be accomplished when
XIII have only real wants, and not those
f%N Oh are, for the most part, artificial and
Xf:ifui. We must I" eat our bread in the
M at OF our faces" and we shall find ii the
etest and most nutritiye Of any food we
HF Q heretofore enjoyed. 1t may not be ac.
ri Ipanied by luxuries and expensive viands;
N IN its associates will be health, peace OF
y 7k'4d and corporal yigor, insuring exem-
FY5 ~ life and purity of morals
no foundation Of the public prosperity is
'& toubtedly agriculture. This brings forth
Il y the materials about which other branches
labor are, for the most part, employed,
sustains the workers in every depart
mt OF the mechanic arts in their labors.
lthout II the earth would be a bowling
.ert With it the cultivated world is an
ihcial Paradise, produced by the labor of
n tsn, who, being doomed to Heat his bread
the sweat Of nis face" thus fultils the de-
t'ee OF heaven, while he insures TO himself
n nis race the blessings OF plenty, limo.
'f8 aoe ana health. Te what high destiny,
II tne farmer appointed, when to him
ommitted the art on which the subsst.
% OIL bis fellow-men necessarily depends.
responsibilities are great indeed and
= AL ne rely only on his Individual efforts
n y limited experience for the fulfilment of
I 4cn I'm portant dutiesY No. He should call
DIS AID the experience, the intelligence
% the scientific as well as practical kSowI
We, which associations for promotinc svri-
lQlture are universally found TO afiora snd
11lereby add 70 his own the experiencs Of
lboee with whom he Is associated. and hu
}Qint efforts produce results to which any ons
Individual IL incompetent The praciicss
rood or bad, which are handed down by his
bFedecess0rs are repeated I; and little pro.
4ress II made In improvement by isolated or
1olECOnfdent individuals
IL would be q toilsome task, nor indeed
would my limited Information enable me to
1numerate all the discoveries and improve
|eents In husbandry which modern times
3ye developed. l will mention one or two
y the most prominent There have been
out few articles used among our farmers, for
~ most essential OF all requisites, msnuring
1ear tAndA Dung, which Ian be produced
Xl{ " Quantities Inadequate to the demand
+ 3t has been the universal and main reIi-
Lime " also generally esteemed of
lmportanca Both OF these are esti-
ftout dispute, and yet 1t u now well