Mr. Greeley's Letters from Texas and the Lower Mississippi: To which are Added His Address to the Farmers of Texas, and His Speech on His Return to New York, June 12, 1871Tribune office, 1871 - 56 pagina's |
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Pagina 22 - Most men are born poor, but no man, who has average capacities and tolerable luck, need remain so. And the farmer's calling, though proffering no sudden leaps, no ready short-cuts to opulence, is the surest of all ways from poverty and want to comfort and independence. Other men must climb ; the temperate, frugal, diligent, provident farmer may grow into competence and every external accessory to happiness. Each year of his devotion to his homestead may find it more valuable, more attractive than...
Pagina 18 - Is agriculture a repulsive pursuit? That what has been called farming has repelled many of the youth of our day, I perceive ; and I glory in the fact. An American boy, who has received a fair common-school education and has an active, inquiring mind, does not willingly consent merely to drive oxen and hold the plow forever. He will do these with alacrity, if they come in his way ; he will not accept them as the be-all and the end-all of his career. He will not sit down in a rude, slovenly, naked...
Pagina 15 - To be conscious of a need or a deficiency, is to be far on the way whereby we shall at last overcome it. Steam, as a productive force, an industrial factor, is barely a century old ; electricity was harnessed to a wire and made a postboy hardly thirty years ago. I do not believe this all, nor even the best, that this all-pervading, irresistible power is destined to do for us. I believe that plants will yet be grown by its aid with a celerity never yet attained ; that heat will be profitably produced...
Pagina 22 - I have known farmers who toiled constantly from daybreak to dark, yet died poor, because, through ignorance, they wrought to disadvantage. If every farmer would devote two hours of each day to reading and reflection, there would be fewer failures in farming than there are. The best investment a farmer can make for his children is that which surrounds their youth with the rational delights of a beauteous, attractive home. The dwelling may be small and rude, yet a few flowers will embellish, as choice...
Pagina 22 - A small library of well-selected books in his home has saved many a youth from wandering into the baleful ways of the Prodigal Son. Where paternal strictness and severity would have bred nothing but dislike and a fixed resolve to abscond at the first opportunity, good books and pleasant surroundings have weaned many a youth from his first wild impulse to go to sea or cross the continent, and made him a docile, contented, obedient, happy lingerer by the parental fire-side.
Pagina 19 - ... issues are within the reach of every industrious family. To arrest the rush of our youth to the cities, we have only to diffuse what is best of the cities through the country ; and this the latest triumphs of civilization enable us easily to do. A home irradiated by the best thoughts of the sages and heroes of all time, even though these be compressed within a few rusty volumes, cheered by the frequent arrival of two or three choice periodicals, and surrounded by such floral evidences of taste...
Pagina 19 - But thousands of farmers are more intent on leaving money and lands to their children than on informing and enriching their minds. They starve their souls in order to pamper their bodies. They grudge their sons that which would make them truly wise, in order to provide them with what can at best but make them rich in corn and cattle, while poor in manly purpose and generous ideas. Modern agriculture is an art — or rather a circle of arts — based upon natural science, which is a methodical exposition...
Pagina 18 - ... education and has an active, inquiring mind, does not willingly consent merely to drive oxen and hold the plow forever. He will do these with alacrity, if they come in his way : he will not accept them as the be-all and the end-all of his career. He will not sit down in a rude, slovenly, naked home, devoid of flowers, and trees, and "books, and periodicals, and intelligent, inspiring, refining conversation, and there plod through a life of drudgery as hopeless and cheerless as any mule's. He...
Pagina 11 - If he does not yet harness the electric fluid to his plow, his boat, his wagon, and make the most docile and useful of his servants, it is because he is still but little advanced from barbarism. Essentially, the lightning garnered in a summer cloud should be as much at his command, and as subservient to his needs, as the water that refreshes his thirsty fields and starts his hitherto lifeless whecls.
Pagina 21 - It is far easier to maintain the productive capacity of a farm than to restore it. To exhaust its fecundity, and then attempt its restoration by buying costly commercial fertilizers, is wasteful and irrational. The good farmer sells mainly such products as are least exhaustive. Necessity may constrain him, for the first year or two, to sell grain, or even hay ; but he will soon send off his surplus mainly in the form of cotton, or wool, or meat, or butter and cheese, or something else that...