The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-09-26
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Frasa Inc y. Q. Farmrr.
ThriiiT aaa TniA,iily Farming.

ThrifI aaa Tnihsihy Farming.
Friend Brsek-I recently made an ex.
san.ioa nf snme distance in the country.
and Iarried for shirt time IN Q farming
community. where the arst eighteen or
i~enly years ofmy early days were spent
Many years have elapsed since, sndnlhsr
pursuits llavs engrossed my inns md IT
tenlion. Yet. often my mind revens 10
the seeaes of yulh. and memory rolls
back 10 lhe rrcOlIeciions Of other days,
when 10 common Ns h all the rural com.
muniIy in which resided. I fell al
the joyous hope of seedIime. entered
with zeal into III the lzbcrs and excite
men, OF hay making and harvest. and
on red in oil The ffolic AM gles Of husk-
ing parties; and in al the ihnughIlessness,
and banyancy of youth. looked forward
for thanksgiving. IS the very best of I'll
tIe days in The year.
In visiting the place after an absence
Of some twenty of more years, | found
many striking changes had iaSen place;
many an honest, hrawny limbed farmer.
then lord of his broad acres. now occn-
pies bus his sin feet By two, in The " suld
kirk yard;" aud Others tina, we're then in
the vigor ofmanhood, and had been spared.
were bowel down with age, and their
thick locks had been plucked by the fn-
gers oflimr. and silyerrd o'erby he trusts
Of 20 or 80 winters. Many OF my school,
mates who were then wild and reckless
youths. with whom | had an hundred times
tried the "tug Of war" Q, long hold and
eide hug, wsre now siaid sud steady
farmers-hesds OF families, engaged in all
The business scenes Of lie. And Of the
bright eyed. fsSen.haired lasses, many
were transformed to sober and careful
housewives and mothers,-and others
we're quietly sleeping the slumber that
knows no awakening most Of whom had
been carried of in all the bloom of youth
snd early womlnhood, by that scourge Of
New Englan,l--consumption.
But a. the whole country was covered
with snow, could mt make much Of an
agricultural survey, but upon inquiry. I
learned that many farms had from bad
management and culture very much dee
riors,ed. and greatly lessened in value;
others had held on the even saaor oFtheir
ca. and wintcred about the same 1lm-
Der Of cattle they did formerly. and some
few in the hands Of enterprisiug, intelli.
gen, farmers, were advancing with sure
and steady pace, that wouli yearly add
70 their value, aud 10 the wealth Of their
owners.
There had been several causes in ope.
ration 10 exhaust the FIRST named class oil
farms--such as blowing the lands in the
antumn, where much ofthe finer portion
Of The soil was blown or By tho winds,
AMI washed by the rains and melting
SHOWS. AID suffering THAR cattle to roam
over their moving fields, both fall and
spring, with reckless waste Of their Gss
hure.
In conversation Nth one Of those far
mers IA Mr. c. whose farm had run
backwards, suggested to him the idea
at collecting the leaves and decaying vc'
geable matter from piece Of wood and
near by. Why" says he, al hain
much opinion Of this vegetable matter
IT'S sour stah'-,nly give me dung
enough from the hovel windows, and
can raise as good crops as Mr.. |. does
with all his swamp muck, lime, compost
and book farming" inquired if hi
'o'k an agricultural paper. No." sale
he--"i did take one several years aga
and that had SD much 10 te aboul a new
hind Of potato, that they sold for twenty
five cents pound, aud after all, il warn
no better than the long reds; and abau
The corn and mulberry trees; and goo'
many farmers got bit by believing thel
great stories, that got sick of anil stop
ped il, and would not take the gin of one
| afterwards called upon Mr.. L., thl
"book farmer" as Mr.. &, sneering call
oil him, aud found him miidle-aged, in
telligeas farmer, who was quietly i'm
proving his farm by every means within
his reach was SD much interested I
his management, that l thought | wonl
attempt to communicate an account oil
to the public, through the columns OF you
useful journal, with the hope that oths
farmers might DO benefited by his exam
pie.
Upon looking into lis barn, found hi
hovel floors were water-tighs, and slapin
toward the back side. In the rear OF III
cattle, was kind Of trough Of the widI
nf 10 - < ;nrhas mazda hv .ir1.iNy nm
Of The floor plank two inches; this W;
also watar-,iyht: the droppings from ii
cattle mostly fell into the trough. and b
giving the cattle good bedding of liz,
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