Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-02
TIE FARM.
PAPER READ BEFORE THE FARMERS IN
sTITUTE N0A. IL, BY CADDIE J. GILL

was SA4S 1AAEei anu 10 tAAc AAEAAcSe
and noblest calling that God ever gave to
man. 1t is the foundation on which the
industry and prosperity of our country
depends. For the very reasons that no one
can exist without the farmer as he is the
one that gives sustenance to life. As every
thing is of the earth, and returns to the
earth, and it is possible of existence with
out everything else, but we all know that
every industry and profession moves hand
in hand like the spokes of wheel, and it
takes all to make completion Of this
world, if we may call it SO.
natures grandest lore, and to unlock and
reveal the hidden mysteries of nature, and
as we are higher educated we learn to APP
preciate nature in its fullest sense.
Then it shows that it has been mans
own fault that the tlllers of the soil have
not kept up his calling, causing him to be
known as greaser and cracker in the South,
and hay-seeder in the North, and it was at
one time almost disgrace to be farmer,
or one would think 80, the way they were
sneered at or cast aside, but as time has
gone on, showing the need of an education
and plenty of ambition to be a successful
farmer, and it is not everyone that can
make farming success, as it was thought
in days gone by. If a man failed at
everything else, well he could farm as the
last resort; now it is the city as the last, il
he fails there it is pride that keeps him
from returning.
l will say to the boy or girl raised on a
farm if you have a talent or calling for
farming, do not leave it, thinking how
much quicker and easier you will make
money, ana what pleasanter life you will
lead, for how many hundreds are disap-
pointed after they leave and only wish
they were back again when it is too late.
That rowing disposition was handed
down from our fore-fathers; if they could
not make money fast enough in one place,
they would keep on moving until the
whole United States has been thickly
settled, and cities OVERLOOKING. How
often a rolling stone never gathers any
moss" but that rowing disposition has be-
come less as prosperity has grown.
The charms and advantages are many for
the farmer, we can see it on every side.
But some one will say how early we have
to rise in the morning, and how late we
have to work at night, and what long days
we make, but what business if you are
going to make success of it that you do
not have to work early and late at times
unless you are an employee and work for a
salary, and we all know if there is nothing
risked, there is nothing gained.
Oh what drudgery farming is, but that
depends on the persons themselves. What
ever we dislike to DOVE make drudgery;
whatever we like to do, we take pleasure
in. And then some one will say what
dreary, dull life on a farm, and that de
ponds on OURSELVES too, as we have the
churches, Sunday schools, oranges, literary
societies, socials, institutes and many
lectures we can attend with very little ex-
pense and be much benefited; besides the
social life we can lead, in fact if we were to
attend all we could easily neglect our
business. Everyone has to use their own
judgment according to their income and
circumstances, and as the boy and girl
either have their horse and wagon or
bicycle to attend these different places, it
seems as if we have as easy conveyance
as the city boy or girl has, and with less
expense.
The farmers home is becoming just as
attractive, convenient, and furnished Just
as comfortable and luxuriant as the homes
in the city, with great deal more room
surrounding US, and less per cent. of very
poor people, as their are less temptations in
the country to take their money.
The first aim and desire of many persons
living in the city is to procure home in
the country if they cannot buy, they will
rent, even board, SO they can only live in
the country to enjoy the purity and beauty
that everywhere abounds. We have heard
it said what an ignorant, backward, out of
date class we are; we may be, but why
should we? With the daily newspaper
every morning, and all books, jour
nails and papers we can enjoy, if we wish
to keep booked up on the topics of the day.
The one disadvantage we have is not hay
ing free mail delivery, but think many
of us will live to see the time when we will
have that, but we have so many advantages
to balance that one disadvantage that we
can do without it for awhile.
The boy and girl on the farm has every
advantage that the city boy and girl has for
an education with our graded schools, and
even more, for there seems to be less to
take their attention when out of school, so
their minds are not taken away from their
books, and if they wish to go into other
business they have a better chance of
securing position.
We may not be so refined looking class
Of people as some Others or gaily dressed
as some, but we may have the foundation
for contented mind, as our lives are often
made up of imitation, and we are placed
so, that we are not constantly put on a