The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-18

Iho Heid VILE odIu fdFd manure intend
ing at the time.to put it in corn this
Spring. But the manure had acted so
well, and it was so well set in grass,
that he thought the grass crop more
profitable then the corn would have
been. The essay being in order Mr.
Moore presented the following paper.
REFLECTIONS FOR TIE FARMER.
May it not be profitable to ask our
selves what we lack OF being all we
desire to be in our occupation? Has our
farming in the past been as we'll done as
would have been to the greatest advan-
tage?
Have members OF the club been
active members, doing our utmost to
promote the prosperity and encourage
ment of the farmer; or have we been
drones, not protiting by our meetings?
If we find We have fallen short of any
of the requirements of good farmer, we
will also find our profits are short.
1t requires mind, enterprise and care,
to succeed in any business.
1t matters not what we put our hands
to, if we aim to escape work or drudgery
as many term it, we will not succeed, for
it is necessary part OF every occupation.
1t is by work we are enabled to triumph
over obstacles aud to rise from the lower
to the higher stations.
| The world is full of croakers becloud-
ing many farmers life by continually
crying, Farming don't pay" Farming
| will pay those who exert themselves and
make 1t pay. There is money in It,"
says enterprise, and | will have it.
L. is not the farm that is the cause of
| the failure, but the man who occupies it.
While some are compelled to vacate
secure fine homesteads.
He who considers farmers life one of
drudgery, misunderstands the meaning
OF the word in the world of effort.
The artist, professor, or mechanic, have
also had their hours of toll and many
! discOuragementS to contend with before
meeting the reward of their efforts put
forth.
II ID waste of time to give reports of
uufavorabe farming. 1t is the successes
that should be held up as goals to be
reached.
! What one farmer can do, another can
do and often does even little better.
When we see more than labor in our
| business, find enjoyment in its wondrous
| transformations and reflect how far such
work is really above that of most any
other calling in its usefulness to mankind
and its closeness to natures mysteries,
we will not consider it as wanting in
| pleasure. II is ignorance and narrow
views that belittle the calling of the
| farmer.
The int lligent farmer in act and speech
encourages everything which aims to his
| advancement and shows to the public
what profit can be obtained in system of
| good farming. When farm is so GU ided
it is full OF attractive results.
Like the artists productions it's parts
| blend together, making a complete pic
turs on which tho eye rests with pleasure
TIE successful farmer not only secures
the highest profit, but is surrounded by
"tjcc.s of beauty.
Look where we will on the farm,
whether at its fruits, grasses, grain or
animals, we shall lind whatever reaches
its highest fitness for its desL Lined purpose
is beautiful. Thus our toll is dotted all
along with uiumphs and this makes
farm lie under its highest aspects the
truest life man can Lad.
The agricullurI class forms very
large propori ion in every civilized
country.
Unlike the merchant, mechanic or pro
lessor, who are mostly located in toms
and are brought into close business aud
social relations, the farmers are scattered
over the country and are SO isolated as
to have little intercourse with each other.
| Consequently their minds are not sharp
ened by The friction OF society whRr-
new ideas are sugges It. developed
by association. They thus become
conservative class and need some st;mu
liant to cause them to use their brains as
well as their hands | know of no better
stimulant than farmers club, if We
make it what it should be. Let Us each
strive to perform to the best of our
ability the duties assigned us as members
How many after the farm begins o
improve and the profits are grelter, can
not withstand the temptation to let
we'll enough alone, and indulge III
luxuriant or expensive living or invest
in some wild scheme that promises to
pay very large dividends. They will
soon find to their sorrow that Western
investments are not as they are repre-
sented.
l will close by saying that we have
much to encourage US in our occupation
if we have spirit and enterprise. But if
slothful and unambitious we will soon
despair, and tlmo will leave us out of
sight, our places being filled by others
more worthy.
Comment on tho essay being in order
Col John r. Bond said that the paper
. was an excellent one, short, intelligent
AMI to the point, and that it was like
everything the gentleman generally did,
well done.
! Mr.. Dnyckinck also spoke iu very
complimentary terms of the paper.
, Mr.. Thos G. Bond said that MIR. Moore
t had drawn a pleasing picture of tho
' successful farmer, aud til 1t his work as
an agriculturist justified him in doing so.
, Col Noyes thought Mr.. Moore had
9 painted too bright a picture, and that
r the general condition of the farming
interests the country over did not justify
it, his view being supported by the en-
barrased condition OF the farming classes
in the great grain growing districts OF
the West, as well as the East.
e Mr. Wilson said that he did not think
l the picture of farmers life as painted
y by Mr.. Moore was over drawn. aud
while he had not performed his Iull
duty as a farmer, ho recognised the
possibilities of the occupation.
Mr.. Henry S. Coudon said that while
he thought very tavorabll of the essay,
he also thought Mr.. MoOrc S views oi
the farmers lite were rather roseatr, still
he did not think that thc opportunity OF
q success was equally opau to all men