Show keeping tho boys on the farm in an extended argument as to the of farmers was sticking to the farm the cincinnati commercial observes that there ie a feature in this matter of bons eons following the calling of their fathers that is not sufficiently regarded the calling of ane father may rise to a higher dignity when the sons adopt the business thoroughly learn it and zealously and proudly pursue it then the accumulated reputation uta tion capital and business of the parent can bo inherited and preserved by the sons again it is a lair of dituro that lokot good in all the animal kingdon king dou that aptness for any business may bo inherited or may be arca B we say of stock alie great desideratum in developing a race of hotter is to insure an aptness to trot and this comes not from stock that has habitually been ased for lie draught or chase or race course if the dam trois and the siro trots we do not expect the offspring to be a running borso the old spartano spartans Spar tans understood this law of developing an aptness for a given calling in the children the germans times developed a laoc of warriors on tho same principle the law of heredity is so broad and so powerful in its influence that it not only to color and form of our race but it extends to the temperament and even to the affee the taste though like the muscle and reasoning faculties may be improved by education still the taste and for any calling may bo increased from generation to generation then if wo are to reach the highest development of farmers wo must expect it through descent tho son must inherit the fitness of the father and tuko up the calling and business here he icat oil and his eon after him and no on when this shall become the custom in our farming families then shall we see greater atal clity in society and a higher type of civilization every parent has tho chief power to bring his work about tho very independence of tho farmers alfo is to lo 10 the germ which develops a race that cn than an independent our nation is to achieve its greatness in the development of agriculture its power at home and abroad is to be established and held through the arts of husbandry and virtuous raco of farmers all thep that can be done by tho state or family to ennoble and t dignify tho callin gand to entail its and influence from father to non will add to the and grandeur of abo nation |