The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1841-01-21

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ntr's Cabinet relates an instance OF
che most successful farming We have
heard Of Tor somr time. II is or an
old. practical. hsrd-Horking farmer
% The neisLborhood Of Amherst. N.
II. Who commenced in the world as
sd.y-iasaIe r. and sho. uotwilhstand-
ins he has AZ various times sustained
heasy peeuniary losses In The invest.
meat Of bis funds. is now worth al
least one hundred thousand dollars.
We make the following extract from
the article In the Cabinet:
This man. when thirty years Of
age. by the avails Of his industry ad.
ded 70 . small legacy. was enabled 70
purchase and pay. 10 part, Tor a farm
VI Onc huadrei and thirty acres Of
Iaad. one hundred OF which vas under
cultivation, but In . very low state.
The farm Is altogether upland, With
. soil ,cemposed Of loan, clay, and
sand, in the Chief % which che latter
prepoHdcrates, the former being least
considerable. When he commenced
farming. he adopted q particular sys
TEN Of rotation, 20 which be has i'm.
plici,Iy adhered from that time 10 the
present, which is forty years, and bis
success is Che best comment on the
worth OF The experiment. His mode
was a. fellows: having divided his
farm iaie.eisht fields Of equal size. as
near rs possible, three Of those fields
wero slowed with wheat each year.
one aith rye, one planted with cora.
twa in clover. and one an open fsllow.
on which corn had been raised the
year previous. One OF the two clover
fields 10 kept Tor moving, the other
for pasture. both OF which are plough
cd as saoa sitter tho harvest as posi-.
Die, and prepared Tor wheat in the
fali. All The manure which Is made
On the farm Tor one year 10 hauled 10
She spring on the Geld intended for
open iallos, Which Is then ploughed.
and. after one or tao cross plough things
thraugA tho summer. Is also sowcd
with wheat In the tall. The field on
which the rye Is sown Is that from
which . crop Of wheat has been Ia
kea the same year, aud which had
yfeided three crops. Corn is planted
90 the Geld from which rye bad been
taken the year previous. the stubbies
OF which are ploughed down 10 the fall.
Clever seed is sown early 10 the spring
on iwo Of the wheat fields, those which
hase been most recently MANFRED. by
this method, each field yields three
crops OF wheat, two Of clover, one oil
rye,Iand one OF curn. every eight years.
Each field, in the mean time, has
lain an apea faliow, aud received q
heavy dressing OF manure, perhaps
~ a average OF fifteen four. horse
loads per acre. His crop at wheat Is
seldom less than fifteen hundred bush.
els. but often much moro. His ave-
rage rye crop is about four hundred
apd fifty bushels, and his corn crop
annually abost Eve hundred bushels
--alI which grain. 81 the present low
prices. would amount to more than
tso thousand dollars annuslly, aud at
Turner prices 60 double that amount,
and his farm Is withal very highly
improved" ssR rq'. -- ie
Railroads. There are S.3I9 miles
oirailroad constructed and in use IN
The United States. constructed at a
cnst OF about cighty.six millions OF
dollars. and yielding an average re-
venue of about five and Q hall per
cent. 1902 miles more are IN pro
gress Of completion; aud the whole
number of miles projected, including
dashed, unfinished. and routes exam
ined, nearly ten thousand. ##+
Good Rercnue.-lt Is stated that
tho British government derives from
the single article ut tobacco, an annual
revenue OF about three million pounds.
IN 1889 il exceeded this sum 495. 6s6t.
ainsan,ins 10 nearly seventeen mil
iians of duilars! ga. 3a5.t ,@ #
The following ,oas, was given at .
TiPpecanoe celebrs,ioua 2. Wss,held. New
Jersey. ..,el,naa :
Martin Van Barren. Conquered by
az cowarl;'' ouitun by a man IN on
iran esge;" sanquished by q |" pe'ucoia,
General" and soundly beaten BY an" ole
Granny" - ,a@a $685.