The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-09-18
From The Southera Culiirdfor.
YANKEE FARMING.

A traveller from The W est IS recordlny I,
the impressions made on him during re.
cent visit 10 New England, ii series Of We.
ny clever letters, which are published IN
the Western Fdrmer g. Gardner. From
enc Of hls letters we make an extract, With
the hope that il may aid IN correcting some
Of our Southern bad habits. Though lis
blows a;s AIMED at thu West, they are uoue
the less palPable hits ct the South.
BosroN, Mass. May l6, ls46.
| Eds. Farmer & Gardener There sirs,
| na0e seen the good and bad, the rich and
poor sides Of New England farming. TIsv.
cling through the Connecticut valley from
Hartford TO Hanover, takes one through the
paradise Of New England, and 10 justice
I, 10 tbe valley, set 1t down as an extreme.
ly fertile and highly cultivated tract, which
, renders full return for all the skllCul labor
| gwen to It's tillage. But leaving Hanover,
| New Hampshire, and gong down 10 Con
! cord, gives the other SIDE Of The picture,
and you may soc what stony sterile coun.
ny, n. England Is. A vegetable garden her,
looks 10 me much lks western gravel
walk and the pasture lots resembIs stone
qlaues, the corn fields could no, 6nd,
T TOT the corn IS 10! yet up, and With some
/ little skill IN guessing, gave II up; for
where undet heaven, earth aud moisture
(or corn eau be found ls mystery TO u.e as
+ yet.
4 " But there is bright aide Of New Ea.
- land la,mlaC, from which 80 Wes.efnefs
ought 10 take lesson. Noticed skjIful ecou.
omy by every device that aYankee brain can
p start to save penny or render useless thing.
( useful lhIsis evident 10 thousand points.
4 To use up old stumPs, drawn up bodily
roots aud ell, they lay these roots to The
road, aud make secure and picturesque
C fences 10 clear the fields Of stone, they
n chuck tdem together in long rows arouuC
III the border, aud call them stone feuces
hill has al iuch Of soil upon It, a "sldt
d. hll. P!o~ cuINyates II; if the grass ant
g, moss Of peculiarly barren stone quarrl
- WON'T keep COW alive, il answers to keel
- DOZEN sheep nibbhns through half tn,
year; # swamp IS too vet 10 be prCduc
u i've uader cultivation, 1t yields muck 70
CT land less fortunate. There you see no rail
lying round to rot aud Uasle-no corn
N stalk. IN the feed yards no cobs 10 th
. manger the barns and houses are all ii
" fac order, neat and commodlous and lh
ne wood houses al this time (spnng) are alfea
e. dy fl led up with saved aud split wood, sea
ss sonlng in neat piles for the summer all
winter consumption, providence that
never saw IN any Western State. 1t woul
ne seem that a Yankee farmer does not knot
Of what an IDLE moment means; ram or shlnt
III. cold or warm, he always fad useful aud a.
49,. propnale labor, winch IS sure 10 tell 10 b.
favor IA the hlai result.
las " could not help thinking, with SON
be mor'Iiicauon TO my Western ptde, how dl
rae Ierent the West would appear; how muc
richer her resources and rapid her growth
10 If New England industry could be allied
ral her exhaQsiIess fertility Compato Tor il
)ut stance, the crop OF " Sod corn" as raise
80 upon the praItles Of Illinois, with the ecu
product Of field cultivated here with hal
lSo ncessanG labor. Ia the FORMER, yoke
les Two OF oxen aud boy to drop sced, will
no a week ensure larger crop than The lab
d five men, and horses 10 match, protra
p. ted through Six or elgh, weeks, IN the la
III ter; in one case the labor is to plant al
II! harvest; 10 the other the labor is 10 Gull
1T Vallon-hoeing, hoelng, hoeing.
ant Here, too, IS 10 be seen, The triumphs
Ihe " Dook.atnlng y systematic drains, whIC
#. c'''I engineer might be proud of; Jld
"a ciou' manures making her produce VIVA, u
''o lure never knew she was capable of sele
orchards eIegently pruued and cleaned col
yenlent barns, bIooded stock, and cleaul