Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-09-12
From TIE .15any Cuhirator.
AGRICULTURE AT THE SOUTH.

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A few weeks ago, a friend Of ours was
about to take a journey on business, ana as
he would remain some time In a certain ols-
triet where we had no subscribers, he CON
eluded. az we'll as ourselves, that he might
collect a few to add to our list. In a letter
from him, dated, -, January 9TH,
1884," he SAYS: ii have lately taken a ride
Of twelves miles from this city, and return
ed by a different road. | saw but one build
ing that could be construed into an apology
for a barn. "How do you manage without
barnsi" said ] to one of the best farmers l
met with. CO., said, he "we have no use
for barns, we nave nothing to put in them"
''How do you thresh your wheat!' | inquir-
cd. ave do not make any wheat" "Hour
rye, thenl" ave do not make any rye"
'iWhat do you dc with your hay!" 'Neith-
or do we make any hay" was his reply
"What do you give your horses during the
winterl" 1.-THE tops and blades of corr"
"And how are your cows provided for!-
''We let them take their chance in the fields
among the stalks; they make out to live till
spring" This same farmer told me that he
had not MANFRED an acre of land, nor a hlll
of corn, for nine years! Sand what" |
asked, sis an average crop of corn!" ga
barrel to the thousand hills" Sand how
many hills do you reckon to the acrel"-
Two thousand" Sand how many BUSH
oils to the b~arrell" Give" "Then your
crop of corn is ten bushels 10 the acrel"-
"YeS, we are satisfied with that, and halt OF
US do not get that much" f'Have you mari
here?" | inquired. "Yes, we have plenty
of it three or four feet below the surface,
but it is too much trouble to dig it," | men
toned your poudrette-''O," said he, 'a
"a - II .--.1I ~ :.
cos too much" Seeing a little girl busily
engaged in shaking a quart bottle, | asked
what she had in it. She answered, cream,
and that she was making butter! l conclude,
therefore, that a farmer who has a horse and
,eart-a wooden plough, rope traces, and a
,corn-husk collar, and a quart bottle to churn
his milk in, feels himself amply prepared
for conducting a farm in these diggings,
without wasting a dollar a year for the Far
,mer's Cabinet! A most legitimate conclu-
sion, truly! we should have come to the
same, precisely, had we been canvassing,
ourselves, instead of our friend. Where
would be the use in stirring up a neighbour
hood that was quietly reposing upon a belief
in the perfection of its primitive habits, and
in making itfeel its own privations, by show
ing it the superior privileges of others! If
a man is content from year to year, and from
generation to generation, with ten bushels
of corn to the acre, with his wooden plough,
musk collar, and a quart bottle churn, why
ask him to waste his money on an agricul-
ftural paper, that would make him dissatisi-
cd with them all. Our friend also informed
us, that overtaking a boy who was returning
in his cart from market, he inquired how far
he had come-what his load of marketing
had consisted of, and how much he had OBJ
tanned for it, He said he had just sold his
load of fodder-he had brought it nine miles
and got sixty-two and a half cents for it!
We could make quite a chapter of refec-
lions upon these little incidents, but as they
would not reach the infected district-for no
subscribers were obtained-and as those of
our readers will be quite as wise as our own,
we leave each one 10 supply his own.