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Training For Farmers

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
November
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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A few of the bost cducatcd and cultured men of America aro furmers, and their 8tudions sons aro gracing tho same occupation. But such are a, small projortien of the whole. " Tlic fnult, k'iir Drums, is not our stars, But in ounelvos, tliat wo ftre undcrlinfíít." Farmers ought, as a class, to cultívate better maiinevs in parlor, kitchen, tield ; et ftresido and tablo. Urbanity and rusttcity originally moant moroly city lifo ond country life ; it is not by accident that these words have ooroa to signify politeness and boorishness ; thore must bo added to thcso, intercourso with wclltrcd pcoplo. To recover what wo havo lost, or guin what wo have missed, let us seek to constTuet a society about us, to enoonrage neighborhood gathevings, farmers' clubs, agricultuial Kocieties and evoning perties of every innocent kind, that Drugs ■na in contact with others. To this end lot us try oo-operatiTfl farming - thousnd'a fty to the city bccauso they wish to " sce folks." To this end, also, wo can, if ■wo will, learn from our wivos, for they ore often botter read, and usually better mannored tlian

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus