Litchfield enquirer., 1841-07-08

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 They bring peace through all the darklng night 1 Gods messengers of mercy. From above 1 He watches OCT us with an eye of love.
 Father of light, in this lone silent hour
 see thy glory, feel thy wond'rous power; | Month follows month, the years they roll away, But thou, unchanging, guard us day by day. 1 The spring returns in all it's vernal bloom, The flowers revive from winters icy tomb; And to thee with natures voices raise
 My silent tribute of adoring prase
 | LrrcHF1ELD lS4l HMB The scay 10 scork it-Mr. Drew, the editor | of the Maine Cultivator,' published at Hal lowell, in that State, gives the following ac- count of his own husbandry. His farm is not very extensive one, but his nett in- come from it is greater than that of some of our farmers, who almost starve on their three or four hundred acres:
 "The editor actually crhirates but sin gle acre of land, but tha'' he does cuhirate, and makes it yield all that land can yield. Nor, small as the quantity is, is the amount of subsistence obtained from it unimportant in the support of large family. One-third of an acre he devotes annually to corn the long cared, large-clevelled, eight-row- ed yellow corn, that is not very early nor very late. With him it has ripened every year for the last ten years that he has cul- tivated it. The soil he makes rich. He applies to it, b, fore ploughing, at the rate of eighteen or twenty cords of long manure to the acre, Cor six to the third of an acre,) and turns it under by the plough. He plants the hills three feet and half apart one way, and three feet the other-eGacily by measurement with line. In each hill he deposites either shovel full of old rotted hog manure, or as much night manure as will not over stimulate the crop. From this third of an acre, he has raised on the auer- age for years, over thirty bushels of sound corn for grinding, besides little pig corn for the hogs in the fall of the year. This is as much corn as he needs for the family, besides sufficient surplus for fattening one large or two small hogs. From the same land, he ordinarily obtains some or 3 loads of pumpkins, which serve impor- tant purposes in the family, besides being an excellent article for boiling up with hogs potatoes, giving COW, &c. From the same land, too he has generally obtained all the dry white beans he has needed in his family to go with his pork-whch he raises by the avails of his land, without purchasing of others. The fodder is care- fully cut and cured, and helps as subsis- tence for the cow.. So much for one n.ird of an acre.
 A small portion of land is set apart for the cultivation of Onions. Ordinarily he has from 50 to D bushels on bed, say half dozen rods square. These he sells on the average, at $1 per bushel-say for $6O per year. This purchases his Flour and Rye at common prices. So that from the first third of an acre, and in an Onion bed, he raises all his bread-brown and white.
 On two other large beds, he grows gene rally about 50 bushels of Mangel WurtZel and Carrots. These are for the cows win ter provender. With very little hay, to- gether with the fodder and roots, good cow-and he finds it economy always 10 keep the Jest-may be kept through the winter.
 Potatoes for summer and autumn use, are planted on the margins, and wherever there is vacant chance for hill, and a depart ment is expressly devoted to them large enough to raise all that are wanted for the table, and enough to spare for the hogs, &c., So far, as relates to bread, butter, pork, and he might add, poultry. Then the rest of the land is devoted to too many things to mention here-beets- parsnips-cabbage- age-turnips-green beans -pcaS-green corn-cucumberS-me -squashes-summer and winter sorts, &c, besides fruits and flowers of various kinds grapes, raspberries, entrants, white. rcd, black and yellow; English and common | gooseberres-and few choice apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and quince trees. All this from single acre. which he cultivates mostly with his own hands.
 Cunirate Fzomers.-.A beautiful woman never looks so beautiful us when with her cheeks. flushing with exercise, and her eyes sparkling with cheerfulness, with her cape bonnet" on, and hoe or O dibble in her hand, she is busiy engaged in working in her garden. It is healthy employment,and 1 exhibits, besides. evidences of refinement and taste. To those who are disposed to treat our opinion on this matter with contempt. we would recommend perusal of the following extract from an exchange paper: | Portsmouth Journal
 "What is the use of flowers :" exclaims a thrifty house. keeper, meanwhile busily pol ishing her fire.irons. What IS the use of bright fire-irons2 say we in reply: or any fire.irons at all! Could not you make fire on two stones. that would keep you quite as warm? Whats the use of handsome table, cloths and bed-spreads one might eat on a board, and not really starve either. When you see house standing all alone, bare of shrub or flower, except perhaps some volunteer punches of thistle and pigweed,