True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-04-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
LITTLE THINGS.

Mn. EDITOR: Iu travelling through North
Carolina, ] am frequently amused at such ex-
preSsions as, MIR. A. is one of our greatest far
mers; he owns 1000 acieS Of good farm land,
and runs twenty plows' Now go around Mr..
AS fence, look at his farm; yol would say
Instantly that an intelligent man had nothing
TO do with that farm The fence is out of re-
pair, the land about half ploughed; the stock
IN bad order; the corn uneven; the ploughs
good for nothing, the horses poor and galded,
bushes growing on the ditch bank, in the mid.
die of the field, and all about the fence the ne.
groes are ragged and filthy; the master going
like mailman all over the premises, com.
planning of the disorder here, there and every
where And now, what is the malter2 All
the difficulties grow out of the want of little
more contrivance in masters head" He
wants to cultivate too much land for his force
wants the land TO improve itself without his
trouble; is mad with the hogs because they
won't fatten with less food and nothing goes
right Now the difficulty lies here; Mr. A.
thinks that good farming consists in the number
OF ploughs man has, the number of horses,
hands. stock, &c He never thought once of
attending to lille things. This is the crying
sin OF farmers generally, A want of system,
and attention TO the smaller circumstances of
the farm. They forget that the great Archi-
tect of the world has made himself great in mi
nuteness as well as in magnitude, since the legs
OF fly have been fitted up with all the perfec-
tion Of an air'pump, and this, too, done by that
hand that formed these vast globes of light that
float in wide fields of immeasurabe space. A
friend called on Michael Angelo, who was fin.
ishing statue; some time afterwards he call
ed again the scul ptor was still at his work
Looking at the figure, his friend exclaimed
Have you been idle since | saw you last +?
by no means replied Angelo, l have re-
touched this part and polished that; | have
sofened this feature and brought out that mus.
cle have given more expression to this lip,
and more energy TO That limb Well. WELL
said his friend, sail these are trihes' 1T may
be So replied Angelo but recolect that trifes
make perfection, and that perfection is no tn
file. Let farmers think of that How much
happier our farmers would be to restrict their
labors TO smaller space, and bring that space
TO perfection. There would be much pleasure
IN looking at the scene, more real profit in the
end, and less aggravation in attending to the
laborers. Then let no farmer think it a trihe
TO have all the weeds carefully wed from about
the yard, and thrown into the hog pen; have
the mich cows currycombed, the horses well
rubbed, the ditch banks trimmed down, the
Clearings of the bitches hauled into the lot for
manure, shrubs cut from about the fences, pig
pens daily supplied with trash for mature, all
the ashes carefully saved soap suds carefully
poured upon the manure pile, manure pies
kept shaded as much as possible See that the
manure is spread the minute it is carried into
the field, &c, &c. always remembering that
'trfes make perfection, and that perfection is
no triae.' ~ C. Farmer