Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-06-24

supply of lime may be unattainable for want
of means but the capacity of the soil for
NATURALIZATION is unlimited; and it is up
on this that we must mainly rely. How to
avail ourselves of it, is the province of your
spirited and useful journal, and its many
talented and practical correspondents to
teach. Study, observation, industry, econo-
my, reflection, and, above all, patience, are
necessary for the acquisition of this know
ledge. 1t is by the "Limn labor'* (po al
fusion to lime, Mr.. Editor,) that in this as in
literary pursuits, we must attain excellence.
And allow me to express the opinion, that
it is far easier to learn than to teach.
This communication has already reached
to greater. length than intended; but, at
the hazard of fatigung your readers, will
recount, In illustration of my views, an in
cident of former years.
Many years ago, Mr.. Editor, more years
than like to say, your present CORES pom
dent was school boy in the Valley of Vir-
GINA. On one occasion he obtained per-
mission of the "proper authorilies' to &C
company party on an outlying expedi-
ton, for the purpose of sport, some distance
west of the place of his residence. Near
the foot of the North Mountain, our party
after all enlivening day of successful sport,
reached the farm of Dutchman, of unpro-
nounceable, unspellable name, at whose
house we quarlered for the night Born
and bred east of the Blue Ridge, it was my
first introduction to the pecuiarties of
population of whom had heard much and
desired to know more. After hospiable
reception, abundant though homely cheer,
and "coucher," the singuariies of which
shall pass over as not germane to the mat-
Ter in hand, we prepared next morning to
take up the route of our expedition: but
were induced by the report of one of the
party, who had heard of this man and his
farm. and in fact knew him, to take BIRDS
eye view of the premises: and we'll were
we repaid for the trouble. Accustomed to
the then slovenly shambling agriculture of
Eastern Virginia, | had never seen farming
or a farm before. 1t was magnificent. The
fields were groaning under accumulated
loads of verdure; the enclosures were
straight and in perfect order; herd of
cows of enormous size, with udders like
fve-gallon demUohns, fed in a luxuriant
pasture. We questioned our host, who at
tended us, pretty closely, to his visible an
noyance, but could get very little out of
him. We asked where he got his breed of
cattle. He had raised them all himself; he
said they got larger every year. We went
to gigantic stone barn under-laid with
stablng. Such team of horses | never
saw: broad, square buttocks, round bodies,
and legs like levers, and as fat as they could
be; they almost rivalled the famous Flem-
ish team which was recently exhibited in
Baltimore. We learned that he had bred
them himself; in fact the size of many of
them was there to attest the excellence of
the stock. Hogs of enormous size were
waddling about the barn yard and lanes, also
of native growth. The farm contained a.
bout 400 acres, every one of which seemed
highly improved. In short every thing e.
WINGED the perfection of agricultural skill
and management. We got out of him that
he had been living there about 20 years,
that he had came there poor, and that the
place was poor enough too. He had never
bought manure-such an idea had apparent
! ly never entered his brain, and he could
give no account whatever of his system,
but seemed to think the condition of the
farm, which we admired so much, the natu-
raj consequence of his residence of twenty
years. He was dressed in linsey, with
red flannel shirt on, and was reputed to
have boarded much money. Now, this
man was an eminent breeder, a most skill
full farmer, and, according to Dean Swift, a
benefactor of the human race. But he
didn't know a word of it land SO ends nv
story and my illustration, which trust will
be deemed opposite.
If these few hasty and disjointed rehec-
tons should lie deemed worthy of place
in your valuable journal, may trespass a.
again upon your attention, not as one in au-
thority, or aspiring to teach, but in my real
character-that Of A LEARNER.
Baltimore County, May II, lS47.
*Slow process.
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