The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-12-22

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too often dissipated and have not
the physical or moral stamina upon
which to build good citizenship. If
these fellows who have been brought
up in idleness and schooled to ras-
cality all their born days be our
only resource for wholesome laws
and good government, then verify [
say unto you our countrys future is
almost hopeless. The highest ambi-
ton is place and ''boodle," regard
less of the sufferings of the many.
In the name of the noble, self sacri-
ficing, patriotic sons of toll and our
common country l cry for speedy
deliverance from these insatiate vam-
pires. The young man from the
town or city or country with
nothing to do but lounge around
and dissipate and loaf and idle
around had just about as we'll be
bitten by cobra and at once be
put out of the way, as to the good
he is everikeIy to be to his father, his
mother, himself or his country.
Farmers, give your boys something
to do and show them yourself how to
do it ,ceU. Don't allow them to idle
away these long winter evenings
but furnish them freely with good
books and papers to read and study.
1t will pay you, it will pay them
and it will abundantly pay the
State. Every one knows that there
is vast amount of disease, crime,
poverty and misery emanating
from idleness and dissipation, but
no one knows how to prevent all
this, for no one knows how to
make the great mass of the people
wise and contented. Nevertheless
it should be the constant endeavOr
of every father and mother in the
land to heroically meet this tidal
wave of destruction ere they see en-
quilted i'm utter ruin everything they
hold dear this side of Heaven. There
is before the well developed country
boy the grandest possibilities and l
have an almost unbounded faith in
him. Don't wait for the schools
and colleges to make great men out
Of your boys-do it yourselves. To
succeed in all this it is absolutely
essential that the farmer study
books and men and read every day
the great volume of nature ever
open before him. He must be a
close student as we'll as a hard
worker.
OF all men in the world farmers
as class are the easiest to humbug
and victimize. Just let some slick
tongued, we'll dressed chap come
along with some patent canning
fluid, or some county and farm
right, or some seIf-boring auger and
he will straightway gobble up the
unsuspecting farmer, who does not
read or think for himself [ posi-
lively would not give bushel of
leached ashes for a whole car load
of these rights. | don't care what
they claim for them, or promise to
perform. Mature wisdom crieth in
the streets and says don't! don't!
Subscribe at once for the PRoGREs-
sIvE FARMER, the Southern Cultiuator
or the american AgricultWist-take
at least one of them next year and
all of them if you can, and | do not
know a farmer in this section who
could not take them all and be prof
tied thereby. Try it brethren for
one year and if you find it does not
pay you ] will foot the bill. Read
the many good things in these
splendid papers, reflect, digest and
thereby appropriate what you 90
over with your eyes. This kind of
reading gives definite, exact knowl-
edge which is the key to success.
One hour a day thus employed will
make man we'll informed and
intelligent. Don't say you cant for
l knom you can. To use the language
of the immortal bard, Ignorance is
the curse Of God, knowledge the
wings wherewith we fly to Heav-
en-" .......
D. M. Payne.-The demands for
farm literature are more urgent now
than they were in the earlier stages
of the country, The channels
through which it can be obtained
have largely increased, while its cost
has proportionately decreased. The
laws of supply and demand are easy