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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



with the least possible delay, after the lime of 

 payment comes. Though we have the farmers 

 flag at OUT mast head, and know t'.mt many of 

 them require no schooling in iliis matter at o;::' 

 own imperfect hands, still we nre disposed to 

 emphasize the class, more especially as they are 

 the base upon which the basinesa superstructure 

 of the country mainly rests, and if they dishoniu- 

 themselves, prove delinquent, the shop keepers 

 fail or are in peril, and the eastern whoicsalj 

 dealer goes down beyond all peradventure. drag- 

 ging with him across the water those frt m wliom 

 we have descended, and belong \o the fauiily of 

 man, though so far divided from ourselves. 



The East Indi;iu war is a marked feainre u: the 

 aspect of the tiaies. Were the Hindoos nn un- 

 mixed racs , we should say lot them govern thcu-, 

 selves, let the English go down. But Hindoos 

 and Mahometans in the ef^ntral ai;d sonlhern 

 districts, niiiiglcd with the ferocity oft! 



the other scale, and we shall see that it will be 

 quite np lotliebest etiiics of our day for the 

 English, An'oricans and French uniledly to give 

 them a sound drubbir.g. AH this may be wrong 

 in a man of peace to advocate, but a (demonstra- 

 tion of force seems to be the only thing that can 

 bring so suprcnieiY a bigoted people to estimate 

 arigiit the pov.cr and character of these whom 

 they affoct to despise as barbarous. 



liie Si 



ghan and Tartar tribes of tiie north, portions ol 

 the earth fmm whence Europe ia early times wtis 

 overrun, can only be kept in abr'Tnni..e by some 

 of the great powers. India has been governed in 

 the nuiin pretty wci! since the time of Ciive atsd 

 Hastings; the garrlsuns throughout i-avc not 

 swayed a very arbitrary ru'e, but the East In- 

 dia Company who st:i! hold the revenues, tax 

 their Indian fubjects too heavily for au Asiatic 

 people, a!!d hole', rannopolies over rheir produ'j?, 

 opimn, indigo i}l:c., tha* has cau--cd gri-ai dissat- 

 isfr.ction. This, ccu}iled witli thv ii'ducnces ol' 

 Christianity, which, in barbarous euuntrics gen- 

 erally shows a;;ything but Chrislifln aspects, so 

 far as trtiile and common intercourse goes, witli 

 a people singularly feuperftitiouj:, rc!i;rinus, fa- 

 natical, ready to burn u[' or be crushed for ti'.e 

 rules of thei.'- faith, could only end s.).'ne;- or la- 

 t^r, in an outbreak. But iuimanityr'.qui-es that 

 England shou'd succeed; anarchv would ensue 

 under native rule; and who would desir* the al- 

 ready bloated Russian Empire, stretchir.g one 

 wing OD oiu" own continent, semi-barbarous it; 

 all its dist'diit confines, to place its feet upon tiic 

 fair peninsula of Hindoostan ? 



In China, England is in anoilier predicarnt nt, 

 and our synnpatiiies even there, are not wiUi tho 

 Chinese, rdaoh might be said in their fivor ii' 

 they were not such a treaclierous, impia'/able 

 race. Their Mongol, and worse, their Malay 

 blood sticks right out of then. Tlieir protc:;- 

 sions, not to dodire foreign tra'ie is all sham, 

 what would they do without it' If a f,ut.iinc 

 happens in any of the pr^'vinc-'^?, :i very c;')n"inion 

 event, an American or English sliip can bring 

 them a cirgn of rice in a tithe of the tunc that 

 one of their own could doit, and at less expense. 

 Their desire?, tlieir tastes, their wa.nts, ti.cir ne- 

 cessities, have been modified by a loreign traili\ 

 and it is useless for them to pretead that their 

 welfare as a nation is not promoted by it. 'i'his 

 then being granted, patting the opium traflic — 

 the only known evil entailed upon them by trade 

 — in the one seale, and the palpable benefiis that 

 result from trade as a whole; the abuse of for- 

 eigners; the inhumanity toward them at all times 

 when unprotected; the inflated vanity and non- 

 sense in their addresses to foreign governments, 

 and worse thau this iu alluding to the people, in 



The Ffirmer's Orcapalioji— Food for Tiioaglit. 



The occupation of t'.ic farmer furnishes food 

 .^or thought, subjects for study, which are ever 

 new and inexhastiljle. Al! the elements wait to 

 do his bidding. A!i tlie occult forces of nature 

 .challenge his nircstigation, and promise him a 

 ^Tffch reward ibr every secret he will bring lurth 

 from h. r hidden store-house, llo can use hcad- 

 worlc as well as hand-work. jS'o foriu of labor 

 invites so freely or pays so [ironiplly the head- 

 work of the laborer, as agriculture. Isaturehas 

 her secrets, r.ha does not reveal then"! unaslced; 

 but t.) keen intelligcui,":' s:;e co/^stantly offers 

 something new and vahiabl;' — chemistry, botany, 

 geology, orni:ho'o::y, all stm-.d nady to help the 

 farmer do Ids wor;;. And jiJst in proportion as 

 lie uses 1 heir aid, does he elevate his occupation 

 from servile dr.i^ige.y to a ;:9ul fifvaling and ex- 

 pandin;;- ernpioynieni.. ile has to do with plants. 

 How much ]p hi.? interest in iliesc piants awak- 

 ei'ed. if iie know:-, semetiiiug of t"',e iiigredients of 

 wiiich they are formed! of the ii; flue nee;- of ?oil 

 ard the aticosjthere in tiieir prod e.et ion. liehas 

 to do with the soil — geologv wiii toll hiin how 

 t!:r,t soil was form"d. ar^d iu whe.t rcr-^pect one 

 soil diUers from, another. So far as the science 



0;' agriculture is !-o';c;'rned, 



C7. Tl,o Hirr-iers are inte'iigent. well informed 



IS st!i! m Its mfan- 

 1! 



Vri a class; but ti.-'j 



not 



study, and tiieir be^* thought 

 in which tiiey are daily cnj::; 



:'t given tuetr 

 Liie oceujiation 

 I. V; uen taev 

 ■ad, it ha^ been upou tej^ics widely reuMite 

 iVom the objje'3 of their dailj- pm-suh. The 

 favin il-:elf. the Roil, ti'.e reeks, the llov/er; that 

 grow ti;rre. the sprii.glng crop?, il;e insects that 

 d!rVour, the bird;; 'hfit ]irotpet or i^iere, all are 

 iiiterestinp,' £air"jc;;; 0:.^;'?;^///: ead ail have imme- 

 diate apulieatiea ir: his daily labcr. it is a lack 

 of acquaintance with these rhiugs which makes 

 labor upon the iar:ii dull and monotonoiis, and 

 sends our youcg men, by crowds, every year, to 

 the store or to the factory. It is an acquaintance 

 with these thine-g widen wi^i awaken a generous 

 enthusiasm in his calling. It wiii enlist his mind 

 aad heart. It will not be drudgery —but a labor 

 of love. It will Call out all his best powers, and 

 Jic will become not merely a toiliag artisan, 

 working for daily bread, but a living man, pur- 

 sviimr a noble calling with uohle aims. — Sermon 

 of John Mvoi'c. 



Winter Pi:otection for Plants. — About 

 as good way as atjy, is to lay the plants down 

 on the earth, a:id cover them over with a piece 

 of turf. This is a capital plan for pinks, antir- 

 rhinums and tender roses. 



