The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-09-05
BUENOS AYRES.

a late English paper contains lette
rom an English farmer, settled in Bueno
hyres, from which we make the followin
extracts =
"Fhe customs of the country are such a
70 make farming very inconyenient. T,
the first place, labor is exceedingly hirh
owing to the blockade. Laborers. eithel
English, Dutch, German, French or Snon.
Ism, are all so idle, from the excess OF nav
gwen them, that you cannot get half !,
days work done. | have often thonpht
no" - feels at seeing their habits. The
Spanish peon, or laborer. when he comes Az
ioF Nork, always comes mounted upop his
r," "u I0Ise, winch, OF course, you are ex-
Pected to keep for his use, as well as him
self, as he frequently will ride ont. if Won
are ever so busy, and spend the day in ca
rousing. l had two poems for some yoonths
ana Kept two horses for each of them. and
could not help myself The EnGlisbmcn
are equally awkward, because they are
1quaIy scarce, and much better paid for
their labor. l have an old man, now got
worse Tor wear, and give him twenty dol
Ia[ I; a month, with board and lodging
w MAJ would -- think, on seeing his peon
stop his oxen ten times day at the plough
loF the purpose Of going to the house to
n nS his cigar? This would make him
fret it be were busy at the time but yeu
must not fret him, if you do be would run
away, and then your team must stand until
you get another peon, for if you have En-
gilshmen, they are above going to plough
with oxen.
You would laugh to see what state of
nature the country is in If you 90 to a
Spanish ranch (cottage) and ask for water,
ehey VIII most likely bring it to You in
cows horn. Many of the houses in the
country have no door, but a bullocks' hide.
The boots made of the hind legs of a horse
are excellent, and would much SUNRISE
you to see them worn; they are cut off at
the top of the thigh, from thence to the
hook forms the leg, and from the hook to
the coffin JOINT forms the foot, making the
Rock Itself form the heel. They REQUIRE TO
be soled and sewed up at the toe. when
they are genteel boots of course thev re-
qulre to be dressed, but have no seam in
them, except at the toe. Horses heads. or
bullocks' head, with the horns on. are al !
most the only seats used by the poems. |
mad no fewer than five or six around my
cook-house fireplace, which pleased the
children much.
"The cook-house is always a detached
building, and the fireplace is in the mid
die, without chimney, and most common
~ the only fire about the house, either in
town or country; but many in town have
chlmnles. Skins are used here for bas-
kets, hampers for carrying out bread or
merchandise, bales for coffee or mating
rcrrS, lyt.t j .,-eo1,e,,.
thrown round the neck or hotlV of the frav-
eller on the road, and the other end being
fastened to the saddle of the gouclt0, who
throws it, and who is on the gallop, he is
sure to be drawnoff and robbed-and use
ful, because they will catch with it the
widest horse, cow, bullock, sheep, dog or
cat: at pleasure, which in this country is in
valuable. Skins also form the bottoms of
beds, the siCes Of carts and wagons, the
bottom of hand barrows, and a thousand
other things"