484 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



Thus it appears that the annual product of every source and of every class in 

 the whole State united is less than that of the plow and the fields by $11,697,- 

 324. Then, again, look at the distribution of the classes as employed in the va- 

 rious industrial occupations, as here represented according to the last census: 



In Agriculture 272,579 



Mining 704 



Commerce 9,201 



Manufactures 66,265 



Navigating the ocean 212 



Internal navigation 3.323 



Learned professions 5,663 



85,368 



Agriculture over all others 187.211 



or more than three persons employed in cultivation to one of all other classes 

 combined. 



JSfow then look at the means at work for advancing the knowledge and the 

 welfare of the manufacturer, the merchant, and the political partisan, a class of 

 men who are ever riding but never willing to be ridden by the people. For the 

 use of these artificial classes which grow out of and and derive their employ- 

 ment from the products of Agriculture, there are in the State of Ohio 



Daily papers 16 



Weeklies 81 



Tri-v,'eeklie8 5 



Semi-weekly 1 



Monthlies 2 



Making 105 



papers collecting and diffusing such knowledge and such doctrines through all 

 parts of the State as may be deemed most useful and acceptable, without any 

 pretence of particular devotion to the cultivators of the soil. Besides these, if not 

 against them, there is the Ohio Cultivator, (a host, truly, in itself,) published at 

 one dollar a year, standing, we believe, of its class, solitary and alone, and battling 

 the watch single-handed for the whole agricultural community — while they, in- 

 stead of making a point of duty and of honor, no less than of interest, to stand by it 

 to a man, hesitate to contribute even one dollar a year to support that one journal 

 exclusively dedicated to the very business of their lives, one which is to be 

 the mindless drudgery, or, as it may be, the intellectual (and only as it is intel- 

 lectual the worthy) occupation of their sons ! 



Is it possible to augur well of the destinies of a community, thus too mer- 

 cenary to provide the suitable aliment for strengthening and expanding the minds 

 of their children as relates to their profession, or too ignorant to perceive that in 

 farming as in all else, light is knowledge, and knowledge is power ? And yet we 

 do augur most auspiciously for the coming community of Ohio farmers, because 

 we see in the very Report before us of the " Ohio State Board of Agriculture," 

 which we laid down to take our pen for the expression of the reflections to which 

 a view of it gave rise — we see in this Report itself the most gratifying evidence 

 of the existence and diffusion of that zeal and knowledge which promise not only 

 to arrest the State in that downward progress to exhaustion which has marked 

 the career of other and older States, but which will bear her upward and onward 

 to a point of much higher productiveness than she has ever yet attained. 



In fact, the able Introduction to this first Annual Report ok the Ohio Stati: 

 Board of Agriculture, by the distinguished President, Allen Trimble, may 

 itself be hailed as an evidence that Agriculture is in a fair Avay to take, in that 

 State, the precedence to which it is everywhere entitled in the rank of indus- 

 trial pursuits. It clearly indicates that the time is approaching when there 

 will prevail throughout the State an abiding conviction that their system of edu- 



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