New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-11-14
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oa'oii d,on of solid wealth TO the country, an;
10. oood example to Others. 1t is question
s'S ,.o,thv of consideration, whether gooc
sen nav not be made out of the poorest sole
s nas in the old States, at an expense much less
n1S .hst involved in the emigration to, and pur
'aa. and preparation of, rich one in the west
csa ,,ntyy: more especially If the sacrifices in
1t thereto be calcul ,ted in the account. Be
90 !, NAV, however, the improvement o.
'na. land in all the old States, is object o
P ;mnortance, both 10 individuals and States
ss.,mers and Towns. people. Let any che look
90, the envir;ns of the city of Ralpmore, fol
go, or Washington, or indeed any where in
.aAr,;dcle and Southern States, and see the
, ~. tracts of waste land that mtet his view d,
ia nas, .nro, and then ask h,nsef whether indiv.
~, c;ties. towns and States, would not all be
s s by the improvement of these colo
es,dsn and their conversion to profitable uses
pnr the thing is SO selfovident, that argument
a.nbe REQUIRED 10 illustrate it. The hop, not the
..sy. j, should be done. is the great point. Ho,r
ssn this poor old field b. made to produce thirty
sr.he,s Of wheat, forty of corn, fifty of oats, o,
turn tons Of hay to the acre, at cost that will
.rsbe the aforesaid crops to yield fair in,eres,
y, The investment and a fair compensation for the
lsb,r1 That IS the frequent question; and ten
,bousand echoes answer, say, ho1e 20
II is not intended non to answer this qres-
finn but to make few remarks applicable to it,
far the purpose of preparing the way for The an.
.yer ct a future, but not distant day. We often
hear of this and that case of improvement by
This and that man, and of the wonders they have
,erformed in the still more wonderfully short
ine OF so and so many years. These announce
nenis are always very gratifying to every body
thew are eagerly sent forth to all the world in tie
newspapers, and are returned in grateful echoes
nnon the improyer's delighted ears. And this is
al right. 1t acts as most powerful excitant
mon others that had been more dilatory; il
Stimulates and encourages them to Go likewise.
But, unfortunately, they are always. or almost
always if not quite, accompanied by the well
known fact, that the improvers were in posses
son of wealth, and that that enabled them to
accomplish the wonders spoken of. They were
not obliged to earn the bread they were eating,
BY the sweat OF the brow, at the very time they
we're making the improvements. They were
no, obliged to raise the interest on the debt in
cured in the purchase OF that very piece of lard,
by hard work, at the very time they were ditch
ing and draining and lining. They had The
means wherewith to improve, and the time
yherewithal to do it in. And is it wonderful
that with these attributes of ability in full pos.
session. they made The Improvements Would
il not have been wonderful if they had not
Still it is good thing, no matter by what
means it is accomplished; it is an &C: that de-
serves praise; just as docs the proper appropria-
ton Of any ana every other faculty or means any
Of US possess, and no more. Such improvets
nave simply performed ON act of duty, which
they owed to themselves, their families and their
couptry-what else {? But show to the world a
farm once impoverished or naturally poor, that
has been made fertile or productive, out Of Its own
resources, by the judicious management and in
dustry of the farmer, and that has in the mean
time maintained that farmer and his family, be-
sides paying soma interest, AID possibly principal
of the purchase money, and all in the course OF
five or even ten years. then the world will have
something to hold up to its rural inhabitants as
an example that they ALL can follow. However
conmendabe the former class of improvers may
be, the latter is infinitely more SO. The former
has purchased valuable property, the latter has
made one. Farms may be found in many part
Of the country that have cost their owners al.
most as much as it would to have paved their en-.
tire surface with silver collars and yet they are
not whit more productive than many Others
that never cost an extraneous cent. Many q
farm may now be seen in any part of our coun'
nv, that FIVE years since, would scarcely pay fol
cultivation, but now yielding full, even heavy
crops, that have never felt the influence OF par.
tcle of manure or other ertll ger, that it had Bot
itself produced either directly or indirectly.
This is the kind of Improvement our farmers
want; this is this .kc ouly kind that can be gen
orally adopted. The men that have money enough
to improve land, are generally those that Will
make some other use oft; and the few that vii
appropriate 1t to that object are rather excep ms
than constituents OF the rule. Much more good
therefore, will result from the publication OF In
stances Of self improved lands, and the process
of the Improvements, even though but muder-
ate Gegree of excellence be ubtaln.d. than can
possibly proceed from the dissemination of facts
in relation TO paid TOR Improvements; because
the one proceeds ron the proper application OF
industry and intelligence, and eau be universally
followed as an example; the othe. from the con
cen,ratlon of extraneous means, and can be lml.
tated by but very few. No one Can object to the
application of foreign means to this object; on
the contrary, the moe they are thus applied the
oettCI' ~ 10 EOOu lilC ilIulSl0uoi hio-s SoA
concerned; il is good for the couotry that the
gold in his Golfers should be made to enrich the
land, But do not set him up as an example TO be
followed by those who have not the means to dc
likewise; and very few have; not one in ten
thousand probaby-for it is rather tantallzlng fol-
a poor man TO be told that he can make his land
aslich ard productive as his neighbor Dives, II
he will expend FIVE or ten thousand dollars IN Its
Improvement! Rather tell him how to do 1t by
the means he possesses, his industry, fer that IS al
bis capital, and lay before him instances with de-
tails, of other cases that have succeeded by tbs
same means. Tire man that shall raise from i'm
poverishment piece of land in This way, that i:
BY his own industry out of its own resources, de
serves more of his country than all the mere pol
tcians that ever lived since the world wal
formed G Is. ,.
Baltimore, Sept. 1874.
SASps's SARsAPARIILA-The same inscrnable ProyIdec
that sends the lightning upon Grand Of DEATH has noued
nmpe root with elements conservative OF e And me SUM
benehcenee which raised Franklin 10 lessen the danger 3
enabled far humber instruments to Improve
the other In Sandss Sarsnpanlu Il IS bcle'et
That all the properties the curative root wall be ouu ~
most condensed and efficient form Operating upon inc poo
the primary motive power the machinery OF man. II disen
cuer the outse, of those deeenous particles winch eeN
aud Scrofula Cancer, Eseias and all other dts
of the external surface and muscular, glnndna' an'