Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-10-24
DIGNITY OF FARMING.
In All the World There Is No NObIer
or More Learned Calling Than
That of Agriculture.

Within recent years it has come to
be acknowledged that the vocation of
the farmer isthe most dignified of all
the sciences and as an art it is ex-
celled only by those of painting and
architecture. Ig its highest forms it
is the most learned of all professions.
A knowledge of geology and chemis-
try and their relations to the soils
lies at the very foundation of scien-
tific agriculture. The problems that
arise from the complex nature of the
soils and their origin require the
best thought of the best minds to
solve. More educated young men
should be farmers. Agriculture opens
wide field leading to influence and
power, one, too, that is not filed to
repletion. 1t holds forth the most
splendid promises to young men of
ambition. 1t is filled with liberaliZ-
ing tendencies, a noble conservation
and the most healthful and invigorat-
ing influences. The day is not far
distant when agriculture will attract
men of the largest capacity and the
highest executive ability, and be re-
garded as the greatest of all the pro-
fessions. Let anyone who is familiar
with what agriculture was a hundred
years ago compare its condition
then with what it is to-day and he
will search in vain for the same pro-
portionate elevation and progress
among it's followers in any other
branch of human industry. Many of
those engaged in agriculture now are
men of high elevation and broad
reading. Many of them have extern
sive and valuable libraries and take
numerous journals devoted to their
business. Agriculture moves along in
its own quiet, dignified, but irresisti-
BILE way. 1t has no booms, so to
speak, but it gathers strength with
each decade and with every accession
of knowledge, and will forever be the
most important branch of human in
dustry and the greatest necessity for
the human race.
If the young men who are measur-
ing tape and laces would surrender
their work to the young girls who
are seeking employment and turn
their attention to the pursuits of ag-
riculture there would be less misery
and more contentmsnt in the land;
there would be m8e independence
and less servility; more men and few
er creatures; more happy wives with
comfortable homes, healthful chill.
dren and cheerful tempers. A woman
surrounded by all the active agencies
of a well-kept farm and living in
beautiful country home with foun.
dations and flowers and sweet ever.
green's" has those environments that
develop the sweetest graces and high
est impulses of her nature and make
her virtues shine resplendent above
the world of frivolity and fashion. She
becomes a true woman, the happiest
of wives and the best of mothers.
Such a home and such wife realize
our highest ideals of human happi.
ness. 1t is a home where intelli-
gence reigns and ennobles work and
work crowns intelligence with honor
and profit.
A young man who is in search of an
easy place, with no responsibility,
will never be master and will never
control others. He who selects yo'
cation because it is easy is already eff
feminate.-Southern Farm Magazine