THE INTELLIGENT FARMER.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 427, 21 May 1879, Page 2

THE INTELLIGENT FARMER.

(From the Sau Francisco Bulletin.') The fanner, of all living men, needs to think continually. His farm is a bundle of possibilities, immeasurable in extent, and _ incalculable in number. There is a which stands with quiet patience behinu each operation of nature’s laws, and each task which comes to his busy hands is charged, and doubly charged, with deepest meaning. Elasticity and cohesion unite to hold the nails he drives into his fence posts ; gravitation helps him to irrigate ; the wood of century-growing oaks is bottled-up sunlight for his hearth-stone ; mysteriously over his fields of wheat currents of electricity flow like rivers, and sunlight which has crossed dim leagues of space, helps to color his red astracan apples. Whoever knows these and similar tilings, ought to make his life a daily blessing and live as if indeed,in the very' presence of endless power, and limitless beauty, and all abiding affection. It is at one time the grass growing noiselessly, and toiling with all its little strength to fulfil its destiny and be ripe grain. Or it is the strange, sweet contentment of lowing herds as they move softly' past in the twilight hour. Or it is the jocund morning time when “ Ho for the field!” is the word. Such moments will mean more; and bo sweeter to the intelligent farmer than to one who is careless and ignorant, because he will understand each subtle hint and connection.

But there are for the thoughtful farmer of to-day, other problems more serious than those of nature’s operations. He who attempts, in so far as in him lies, to cultivate the intellectual parts of his nature, mustfeel that they are mysterious problems which haunt the very atmosphere. Labor and capital ; free trade and protection ; production and over-production ; currency, and other questions of vast import and terrible significance, are before the people. The fanner who will not take the time for thought on questions of social and political science in this rapid, busy age, is a deserter from the ranks of earnest men. We need active thought and systematic effort. If men will only think for themselves,' truth wins. The plainest of men becomes a herb,' and his blunt words shape men’s souls when he has forged his sentences by many an hour of lonely thought and sharp questioning. Farmers must meet together as often as possible and discuss Avith good nature and fairness the great questions which daily loom up more evidently before us. Good government is not a sentimental affair of holiday oratory ; neither is it a mechanical arrangement, once to be started and thenceforward sefely perpetual. Nothing elso Avhich toiling men have created is orie-lialf so complex, so much in need of continual, thoughtful care, as that nice relationship of counterbalancing powers a'nd checks' Avhich vve call a government; So it becomes each intelligent fanner, and, in broader terms, each intelligent man, whatever be his work, to search for himself the records of history, the pages of the best writers, the thoughtful conclusions of human leaders, take nothing on trust, and listening to no temporary, unreasonable clamor. Honest, self-poised, fearless men, whole reasons are deeply .wrought and their own, are what we need most in these eventful years.

■-off dangerous attacks of diarrhea, dy sen try, or cholera. They are the best correctives of the stomach, when disordered by repletion or by the presence of indigestible food. They speedily rectify the flatulent weight, and general, uneasiness which are experienced in the bowels prior to the accession of more serious symptoms, which debilitate, if they do hot endanger.