Personal Sketches And Recollections in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Frien
Personal Sketches And Recollections in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Frien
Eloise Miles Abbott
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Farming is the most healthful and indepen dent way of living, in the world, and then the bread and butter of one's own raising, tastes sweeter than AND RECOLLECTIONS. 207 any other ; besides, good farming is profitable and sure business. Horace Greeley, in one of his agri cultural addresses, said he never heard a man com plain of farming being poor business, but that was a poor farmer. This is, perhaps, true of every other business. The light of science has given a new impetus to agriculture, a...nd made it a more attractive calling for young men who have, hitherto, sought their fortunes in the unhealthy atmosphere of the city, contaminating to both mental and physical health. If parents wish to kill their sons outright, as sure a way as it can be accomplished is, to shut them up in a shop or counting-room of the city, away from the invigorating air of the country. Of the three years farmer life we spent in Jeffer son County, you have some account in another cor respondence, and of my reluctance to leave old, familiar associations, and come among a strange people.
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