Litchfield enquirer., 1841-11-25
WHOLE No. 8C6.
AGnIeslHusAL CAPITAL.

| ""' !" N8nuS Ol a farmer cOnSti-.
 'u'es capital !issaf important query. With.
 the merchant, cash is the capital, with the
 land owner, land is the capital, and with
 tn" farmer, cash, land, and stock, is usua-
 ly considered the capital. But there are
 many o,ler items that en,er into the capi.
 tat "t tic farmer, generaIlv overlooked.
 such as implements, manures, and the most
 important of all, labor. Capital may be productive or non-productiye. A million of gold and silver locked in strong box. or thousand acres of uncultivated land. may be capital, but so long as the property remains in this state it produces nothing, and the owner may be actually growing poorer instead of becoming richer. ln- crease of wealth does not depend on the quantity of capital, so much as in the use made of it; and in nothing is this more ob- servable than tn farming. There is many man who has commenced his career as a farmer with fifty acres of land; on this, he annually expended in manure, labor, &c.,, twenty per cent. and the produce was per-. haPs 10 per sent. Encouraged by tlis success, he added another fifty acres, but. his expenditure in capital is not propor-. uonal'y increased, and the profits are less-, elied in proportion. Sill he has not land enough, and he keeps purchasing land, while he adds little or nothing to his active, capital, aud the consequence is, while on i'iiy acres of land, he realized forty per cent, on five hundred acres he realizes; nothing. He has converted his productive into unproduc,ivc capital, and from his five hundred acres he does not clear us mucIe as he did from fifty acres. or perhaps he actually falls behind. There is nothing more true than that inordinate desire for large farms has been the ruin of thousands. IL is true that large farm may be made productive us a small one, but there must be the same proportion of capital in ma- nure, labor, SLc., put upon it, a thing rare- ly or never done. That part of the farm upon which most capitalis expended is the garden, aud lhis is clearly ,he most pro-. ductve and profitable sand SO with a small farm when compared with large one.- Let no one therefore desire to possess more land or undertake the cultivation of more acres than he has capital to manage well. Ifhe does, he will find Ire is rapidly sinking what little productive capital ho possesses, and may become a poor man.
 
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 1He Feeling and Erper;facc of Four-, score.-l am strongly a.lacheh to old hab- its and old fashions, evea thoush absurd. Instead of, longing for new coat, part with an old one as with ss old friend. I forget some lessous aud cannot learn others. One lesson, however, must learn. to ca, without teeth.
 The farther we advance in years, the more we are affected with both heat and cold. In early life our feelings are but little influenced by either. can better remember the transactions Of;ssvsnty years; than of'yesterday pour liqSor into full vessel and the top will run oE Arst. Per- haps l. can recollect being in a thousand companies every person which composed. themis now departed except myself. Up-. on whatever family cast distant eye, I remark in that family n generation has, sprung into life. passed through the bloom of the day, and sunk into night. My old friends have slipped of the stage, and | am as unfit to unite with new as new cloth with old. Titus am become a stranger to the world which have long known.
 As age increases, sleep decreases ;;whcnt a child enters upon life it can sleep twenty two out of the twent. -four hours. Its sleep will diminish about three hours upon the average every year during the next three,. when activity will enable it to. nurse itself. That reduction will afterwards be nearly one hour for every ten years, till he arrives ar eighty, when four or five will be his hours of sleep. It is curious To see the tlnctuations ofproperty.. F. have seen tue man of opulence look with disdain up- on a pauper in rags. haye seen that paul per mount ,!e wheel of fortune, and the other sink to the bottom. have seen a miserable cooper, not worth the shaviHgs he made, place his son to banker, and his son became ricl, banker, a member of parliament, and baronet.- Wm. Hutton,
 . Cleanliness. tho body clean is2 of great importance, since more than one half of what we eat and drink, is evacuated by precipitation; and if the skin is not kept clean the pores are stopped, and perspira- tlon consequently prevented, to the great injury of health. It is highly necessary to, the health and cheerfulness of children: for when it is neglected they grow pale,. mcagre and sqnalid, and subject to several loathsome and troublesome diseases. Wash ing the hands, face, mouth, and feet, and occasionally the whole body, conduces to health and case, and tends 10 prevent colds. rheumatism, cramps. tho palsy, the itch,. the toothache, and many other maladies.- Attention 10 cleanliness of body would also lead to cleanliness in regard to clothes, victuals, apartments. beds, and furniture. A knowledge of the nature of the mephitic gases, of the necessity of pure atmospheric air to health and vigor, and of the means by