Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Make Home and Farming Attractive! [ARTICLE]

Make Home and Farming Attractive!

That is the “platform” for farmers who desire their sons tn become contented, successful agriculturists, instead ot leaving the farm tor vexatious, hazardous and unhealthy avocations. The best legacy for your sons is a substantial education—moral, mental, and physical—including a practical knowledge and love of farming.- They should thoroughly underst:.i d some occupation/ which is both useful and healthy, and therefore honorable and measurably reliable. This is ol far greater consequence and vai-] ue than a gift of.much money or many acres. Make home and farming so pleasant and attractive that they will become so attached to rural life as to resist all temptations to] enter into uncertain and speculative pursuits. The financial simoom which has swept over the land thq previous year—in numerous instances destroying the accumulations and dissipating the hopes of individuals, families and communities engaged in commercial and speculative ptirsuifs—■ te ches a lesson on this subject which should be heeded by all classes, and especially by the ruralists of America. It proves] that agriculture, which feeds all and clothes all, though temporari y depressed, is the most sure and permanently reliable occupation for this lite, as well as best to fit a man for that which is to come. Farmers, and farmers’ sons, read this lesson aright!