Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-09-06

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Farmer and Gardner.
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From the farmers Chronicle. T.
Fences.
It's most erring policy that induces :
farmers under the name and notion ofecon-
omy, to inclose their grounds with tempo
rary and defective fences. Ii is in truth
the very worst of economy, or rather tie
very reverse of economy. It would DO
we'll for those who feel inclined to negli.
gence or to be governed by the "do.for.the:
present" doctrine, to open an account OF
debt and credit with their fences for few
years and ifthat should not cure them,
they might be given up as ncurable.
Perhaps some of Our readers might be ed.
fled by sight Of such an account at any
rate !; if it should no. happen TO suit their
own experience, it may give them some
idea Of this sort Of Book. keeping: and here
it is.
aCorn6eld FENCE, Dr.
To corn destroyed by horses, cattle ard
hogs at different times, supposed one hun.
dred bushels, say $25: -,
To time lost in stopping hog holes, repair.
ing fences and mending ,cater gaps, say ssx
days, in harvest, S.,
To wounding one oftte plough horses, IN
breaking over the fence. by which his sers
vices were lost for ten days when they we're
mos. wanted, say $5.
To price Of a hog ofmy neighbor Hodge,
for which had to pay. having d9gged Is IN
my corn6eld, so that il died. $3. -
To time los, in attending lav suit about
said hog, and costs of suit, S5.
To loss of valuable dog which / sup
posed Hodge had killed, in revenge for the
killing Of bis hog by said dog, but which J
coulI not prove, S..
To perpetual loss Of Hodges friendship;
which had been steadfast for twenty Years.
amount not known. f,. .
To the spelling of my young horses.
Smiths ca.lle end Hodges hogs, so that !
shall never be able to fence them out eftsc-
lualIy hereafter loss not known.
To keeping me in bad h,mor, trstted aud
Grabbed nearly all sumner damage inca!'
culable.
Total, exclusive ofthe three
last items, $4s.0o
Credu,
By FIVE hundred rails, the number want.
ing to make the fence good but which, as,
they must be finished next spring, are only
saved for one year, SO that the interest on
their cost is the only saving cost 10; inv
teresr al 10 per cent. is 100.
! By labor which would have been requires
10 put the fence in good condition say
$40 at mos, but which having still to be
done, is only entitled to credit 10 tho
amount ofiateres. as in the former case,
Sl.Oo
Total, $500
Balance against bad fences, $4,000
Aud the said debtor tbad fencesl being
utterly insolucnt the whole amount is irre..
parably lost /; except that, IT has taught o
lesson which may be useful hereafter.
SYLVESTER SLoysN.
What came to pass ip the case ofneigh.
Dor SIoven, has happened 10 many others,
and will continue to happen, until proper
attention shall be paid 10 what should be
farmers first concern, good enclosures. -
Nothing can be more unbcaradly provok-
ing, than aiie, having toled all the season
to raise good crop, then to have the whole
destroyed in single night, 5; 3;
But besides the security and actual gain
Of good fences, nolhug more than this con-
tributes to the neasness and good appear-
ance of farm, and without this ]! B impoe~
sible to do away he repulsive apd condemn.-
ing aspec, Of slosenIiness, which indicates
any thing rather than good husbandry.
But tii he is censurable who negiccts the.
enclosures about his fields, meadows and
pasture grounds, what shall we say of him.
whose very garden-a spot which should
of all others be sacred and secure, is con.
stantly "profaned by uandal saoine," and
suffered to be trodden down by the "beasts:
of the ield."-Ifhe attempt his defence by
saying there is nothing in his garden worth
protecting, we say this too is his fault, and
no less one than the other. i is like max,
ing drunkenness excuse theft. 10.
BY the way, the subject of neatness, taste
and utility 10 family gardens, deserves q
fuller notice, and shall ere long have . fall
chapter. In the mean time let US improve
the leisure Of this winter in preparing to
make all our enclosures substantial and Sc
cure before the vcrnal planting comes about.
How to Improve Pose Farm.
Richard A. Leonard, Of Middlstown, N.
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