Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-04-01
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From an address 60 the Hampshire Massl Agyi-
cultural Society. by 1. Bates, Esq.
A competency-neither poverty nor
riches-is essential to our happiness;
SO essential, that he who is married
without the possession or prospect of il
is mad man; and waving all courte.
sy, the girl that would marry him is a
fool; au6 that as well, whether he be
in the possession of it with. habits
likely to dissipate it, as when he is with
out either the possession or prospect
oft. There is no weighing nor meas.
uring nor counting the calamities Incl
dent TO destitute and embarrassed
condition. Theylpress upon the breast
of man like an incubus; they obstruct
The pulsation ofhis heart; they deaden
the current of his life; they wither all
the beauties, with which nature would
cheer him by day, and fancy beguie
him by night; they are The ever pres.
ent messengers ofiresh and evil tidings
And nothing but the reduction OF a
father to something less than human,
or the elephant of him TO something
more, can render such state supper
table. 1t is therefore one oftte high:
est duties and ought to be incuIcated
from the cradle up, as we'll upon those
who are born to competency, TO
maintain, as upon those who are not,
to acquire it; is favorablcto the growth
OF all the virtuous and essential TO do
mestic comlort-It is the little vase of
earth in which your flowers and shrubs,
there are TO ornament and embaim
your firesides and sweeten and cheer
the intercourse of husband, wife and
children, are to glow and tiourishlng,
1t is not then worth little denial, the
pofling of an extra ribbon, and ano
Their and another effort to accomplish
it? Tell ME, We who can recollect G
nough of the trltics yon have thrown
away as of nanieiess Importance, and
for which you were not whit the bet
ter, to wrap your children in flannel,
to light up cheerful fire in your own
neat and comfortable dwellings, to
spread your tables with abundance of
wholesome food, and to cheer you, if
sick, with the prospect that those bles-
sings will continue and brighten upon
you, without the aid or at least without
the reproof of cnarity,--tell me, is it
not worthan effort.
The following, from the American Farmer, may
f.f
al this season.
MILLET,
Burlington, MQrch %, 1923.
DEAR SIR,
observe in your sd number, just
received, mention is made OF white
millet seed, from Col Pickering. |
am DESTROYS of ascertaining whether
this is the same kind, which [ have
cultivated for several years, of which l
send for your insps ction small sam.
pies La 1921, [ had about l. tons
from acres, and last year about the
same product, from another lot of about
5 acres l Graded it as W heat, bound
it in large sheaves, brought it in the
following day-threshed the sheaves at
the end Of several months, without
unbinding them, and obtained about
II bushels of seed per acre; returned
them to the NOW for the use OF my
horses, who ate it greedlly as the best
timothy hay. This mode of mana e
ing tn: miiet saves much room, as it
is very bulky; more seed is saved, than
when cut with the scythe as hay-f
calculatedthe producI at about 90 bush p
els per acre, incluling the seed remain
ing in the unbound sheaves. In 1921
/ had about 80 bushels, weighing 55!bs,
each, ground for my hogs, who ate il
as Indian meal, given to them.--Both
crops were sowed about the 9th June,
and gathered in the middle of August
they were sOwn after Indian corn
one year with one ploughing, and the
other with two, and narrowed in,
without any perccptible dlfference--the
Quantity of seed, half bushel per acre.
Very respectfully, yours,
WIN. COKE.
THE mllet sent by Mr.. Coke, is Of the conn
mon kind. and that which is generally referred
TO in commun cations which relate to that grain
That from Col Pickering, vas very different,
being somewhat larger, rounder, and winter
grain.-Edit An. Farmer.