34 4 Why is not Farming more attractive ? [August 



of money, and that lie has a mind and a subject on which profitably 



to exercise it, as any other individual in the community, and that 



to him this knowledge will not be without its utility, even in a 



material point of view, so that while this may be subordinate, as it 



should be, he has a mind, which, if cultivated, would place him as 



high in the scale as any other class of society. True, how many 



farmers know that every grain on the shaft, or corn-cob, has a pistil 



or silk, and that the pollen of the tassel or flower placed over it, 



must fall upon every individual silk in order to the production of 



the kernal or grain, and that it is a critical time in the production 



of his crop if circumstances do not favor this process. So of other 



grains. Let him, if he choose, earth-worm like, plod on, zealous of 



the epitaph of his prototype — " the hog." 



" Be this my pleasure and my prule, 

 To show tlie world Low fat I died." 



Yet we trust that a higher ambition will influence many, not only 

 to improve their fruits, but their minds, which last can alone impart 

 true dignity to their noble profession. 



We would be pleased to have all, who have any curiosity, to come 

 and investigate with us, with the assistance of a superior micro- 

 scope and other apparatus, this with other cognate subjects, and 

 thereby in some measure assuage the passion of the age, to the 

 gross materialization that is pre-occupying it. — Ed. 



WHY ARE NOT FARMING AND FARM HOUSES MORE 



ATTRACTIVE ? 



Why is it, that while the occupation of cultivating the soil is almost 

 universally acknowledged to be one of the most pleasant and health- 

 ful that man can engatce in, yet the young gentleman who possesses, 

 or fancies he possesses, a trifle more than the ordinary share of 

 sense, is almost sure to seek in the profession of law, divinity or 

 medicine, a wider scope for the exercise of his talents than he 

 imagines can be found in the simple life of the farmer ? more especi- 

 ally if he has been so fortunate as to obtain a better education than 

 falls to the common lot. 



