The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-08-14

lane- --ts 81 quite willing 10 lelfn 'he
state oi the markets from newspapers; and
as wiling to gam religious notions from
reading, and historical knowledge, and all
sorts of information except that which re-
leics 10 his business. lie will 20 over aad
hcas nuo,hor l.h6our tell bow he IRE.
parcs his land, hos he selects and puts 10
4 his seed how be deals with Ills grounds
/ in the spring. IN harvest and uCter harvest
/ but if that neighbour should wu'e il oil
/ down carefully aad ~, II inlo q paPcf, n
al poison its tgJLtaraiag,
aS,range such difference ltero should Be
TE!.G taocilJium and twocdi9dco"
IL raise head OF lettuce surprising ali
ithat has been seen hsreaLon,s, every good
farmer that loves Q salad would send for The
seed, and ask as re took il, "il5v % you
conttiyo to raise such monsltaas heads 2
+ YOU mus, have some secret about IL Blt
III my way were written down arl fr.a'ea,
be Aysld not touch H. "rsh its book
iisbr
Those who arc Prtjgdiced againsi boob
l5rGing, afe either good farmers. misih
formed of Inc design Of agriculiurQl papers,
or noor farmers. Uho oLly treat i5,s sun.
oct &c hey do al hers, WITH J!unaer.ne
ignorance. First, Of the good Gsue5s:
There ate ia every country many i"in3
tfious, working men, who know that
/ they cannot GGo.d 10 risk auyIhins uaos
wild experiments They have o growing
family 10 support, taxes to pay, lands per
haps on which purchase money u due.
They suppose an agricultural paper to be
stuffed iuIi Of wild f5neies, expensive ezpa-
rimen's, biz stories made up by men WHO
/ know Of 30 iarmin, except patloi-iatmung
| They would, doubtless, be Surprised 10 'e4la
thai ninety parts 10 hundred Of The con.
tents Of agricultural papers, ato written b.
practical farmers TIA, the editors busi
ness is not TO foiai absurd stories upon cred
uIous readers, but 10 silt sioriea, to scruti.
ME accounts, to obtain shaleyer has been
proved 10 be fact, and reject all tia, issls
pectad TO be mere fauciul theory. Such
papers are designed TO preyaE, imF9sn.ou;
to search ou, from practical uea whatever
they have found out, ani 10 publish /, for
the benei; OF their children oil over the
Union.
| The other class who rail Q, book firm.
iug, ought TO be excused, for they do lot
,5oat book farming any worse than they d.
their own farming; indeed, not half SO bad.
They rale the paper with their tongue, but
cruelty abuse their ground, for twelve
months within the year, with both hands,
| viii draw the portrait Of o genuine anti
book.iarmer Of the last sort. This PIC
ture is drawn from the West; perhaps i,
needs 10 great alteration to apply as sell to
the South
He ploss three inches deer lest he should
tJrn up the Pisca Ihlh in brs estimation,
lies below he sovs two bushels Of wheat
to tie acro, and reaps ten; 80 tina! it takes
a fish Of his crop to seed bic ground his
corr land bears just ~Ha, II phases; which
IS from thirty tolairJ Eve bushels, lhog.h
he bags th1tisis6.ty or sixty. HIS hogs,
If not fcma,ksbI9 Gr a',caiag qualities,
would beat old Eclipse at a rucc; and were
the man mel pteJujiced ae-ias! deep pioU
ing, bic hogs you'd wo.k bis grounds Le,.
ter wrth their projIgious shouts, iban he
docs With his jack knife pow. lis mead.
ow lands yield him from ihiec.qg,r,ars 20
a whole loa Of hay per acre, which is 70.
gula.ly spoiled III curing, uahorses would
excite tho oYarIce Of an auatoal5l m search
Of astrological specimens. But Oh The
COWS II held Up in q brigh, day to the
sun, doo'f you think they would be semi
Transparent. But he tells Us that good
mixers IRE always poor His cows got
shat p7oyiaeacc sends .aeu, aai very llula
besides, ozcoP, in winter chen they have
hall peek Of corn on ears q loat long,
thfosu 10 them, and they afford lively spce-
tacles Of animated corn AMI cob crlghors.
Mover mind they yield on an average,
three quarts Of milk day and tia, mik
yields yatIeties Of butter quite astonishing.
HIS farm never grows any better: ia
many respects u gets annually worse. AZ.
/ ter Ten years work Oh good soil, while hi.
neighbours have groau rich, he is Ist y here
hc started. Add when at last he sells Gu
to a Peuusy iyauiau who reads the q" Far
ners' CabInel," o, To some Nea Yorker
with his " tultydtg5p backed u, carrf,II,