Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-08-03
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You will perceive by the calculation,
that the labor will be rs dollars more for
the 20 acres than for the acres. Sup
lpose the produce TO be from the 20 acres
5 bushels per acre, aud from the acres
80 bushels per acre; the result is, that
you obtain 800 bushels from the former,
and 400 bushels from the latter, leaving a
balance of 100 bushels of corn, aud rs
dollars in labor, in favor Of five acres in
one year, calculating nothing for the diff
ference in the quantity of land--nothing
for the appreciated value of the acres
nothing for the difference in the quality
Iof corn--nolhing for the greater facility
with which you cultivate 40 acre in high,
rather than the same quantity 10 low
|plight-nothing for the comfort of tillage
nothing for the greater certainty of
crop-nothing for the enjoyment of seeing
the luxuriant abundance spring from your
industry and those are no trifles, even
the latter. We cheerfully pay, (and of.
ten large sums for the elegancies Of dress,
furniture and equipage, &c.-Why not
bestow something to clothe our fields in
the NEST enchanting livery that can de-
light the eye of the farmer
There is another consideration 10 the
patriotic breast; that is the amelioration
of condition of the labouring part Of the
community. And such will be the GER
tain result for if month OF years
labour will yield four times the amount
of farm produce, then three quarters of
1.-THE labor is saved and if the same is be-
slowed, then, on the supposition that the
present labor Of our country supports the
inhabitants, we shall have three times the
amount of our present expenses, as clear
Saving, surplus, to be added to the az
gregate wealth of our country.
Surprising, for sake of argument, and
to illustrate the proposition, that to cult
vate 20 acres in manner aforesaid, re-
quires 200 days labor, to cultivate five
acres requires 60 days labor, which is
probably correct superstition, and the
addition Of 20 days for manuring making
80, there is clear saving of 100 days
labor. Surprising, then, that your county
contains $500 farms, and each has the
same saving, the result, says arithmetic,
| is 1900 days labor saved in one year,
the value Of which, (including provisions
| is equal at least, to the enormous sum of
225, 900 dollars, a clear annual saving in
the expense of tillage 10 this county.
And if the produce of our farms can
be augmented in that proportion. We shall
have no necessity to seek new country,
with the object either of subsistence or
wealth.
Besides, this will produce another
happy effect, to increase. rapidly our
population. To explain my meaning,
population increases 10 proportion to the
means of subsistence, and the country
Astounding Herewith will always be dense
| ly inhabited. A soil SO meagre as to re-
quire a scattered set of inhabitants, is
constantly throwing out the surplus, who
are constrained to seek more productive
country or at least one that can receive
and support them. To this cause per.
haps we may impute the vast emigration
to the west and south.
The farmer who has 200 acres Of land
and four sons, cannot stay upon his farm.
but must go where he can make his 200
acres 500, to furnish each of his sous with
farm, and retain one for himself. BIZ,
could he make that 200 acres 500, con-
lvince him Of the fact, and he will cheer
fully divide his farm, and spend the eve.
luipg of his life with the fondest objects Of