The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-10-18
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THE SEVEN WONDERS OF NEW
ENGLAND, IN THE EYES OF A
SOUTHERN N'TRAVELER. 3
FROM 1.-THE rLoueH, THE LOOM, AND THE
ANVIL .s Il.
1s1Evcry man living in s'brnn spnnk-
ing new house, or one TINT looks us if it
had bcen painted as white us snow within
the past week.
2. All the houses of wood, where all
the fences are Of stone, which in some
places lie so thick ms to require to be re-
moved at tho rate Of q ton from six feet
square.
3.FWood for house and kitchen all saw
ed and split up into one uniform length
and size, and snusly piled away under
cover'of on open she'd, SO that the work Of
house and kitclenmny suffer the least in
terruption; in word, ho secs place for
every thing, and every thing in lis place
The care obviously bestowed in tile
saving and preparation of manure by ac-
.cumulation and composing.
g.. Universal attention to good supply
offruit adapted 10 the climate.
Not a poor or superHuous OK, COW,
horse, hog, or sheep, the proportion ofthe
short lived expensive horse being on every
farm wisely and economically smull.
The seventh wonder is, after day s
ride. twenty-five years ago, with grent
uniformity in their stages, at the rate Of
Z l:2smiles an hour, now on railroads at
the ratio Of thirty,) where, in tho hume Of
all TINT is mysterious and inexplicable,
arc these peoples staple crops2 What do
they make for sale? Where are their
stack-yards Of wheat, straw and fodder,
and oats and Where nrc their TO-.
bncco- houses, md their gin.louscs, :hcir
great herds of cattle and swine, roofing in
,he'swn,nps, browsing in the fields, or re-
posiIE in tho shade? How is it TINT these
AReoPle: contrive to keep out Of debt, and
yet never repudiate? How do they 60 on
improving their rocky land, carrying tons
Of stone from their hills above 10 under
drain the meadows below? building school
houses in sight Of each other, and en-
pending millions on education, while buy.
ing for themselves. one little bank stock,
and a little stock in ncighboring factory,
at which he sells his milk and his apples,
his carrots and potatoes, once in n while
giving 500 IN acre for small farm in
his neighborhood? Dear reader to ex-
plain all these wonders of New England
thrift and go-aheudivcncss in full would
make long story, but you will turn
bnck 10 the first page Of the cover of this
journal you will see at once The key to the
riddle! There you see the secret by
which alone poor land throughout coun-
try can be prudently and economically
made rich---for there you see the plough,
the loom, and the anvil, all close to each
other the first being the most prominent.
1t is there, md there only, where tho
cultiyators of tho soil have the wisdom to
encourage oil other branches Of american
industry, that you will ever SEQ or hear of
ninety tons of milk and strawberries 90.
ing by ono road, in a single day, to be
consumed before the milk can sour, and
and before the strawberries can sour, bv
weavers, and blacksmi,hs, and shoemnk-
ers, and tailors, and churchmen, and Law.
men, and printers and printers devils;
and what is more, some Of these perisha.
BILE articles going in ono night probably at
least one. hundred miles, TO bo eaten fresh
next morning for breakfast! So much for
easy and expeditions channels Of commu.
nication that concentration lays over the
ground, 10 provide for the transportation
ofthat food that concentration only can
bring out of the ground.
lt,is in this that we find the secret for
"making poor land rich. !" II is not all.he
premiums that can be- offered, nor prize
essays, though they be spun Out US long as
the rnaintop boWline, that can convert a
poor exhausted country into rich one,
and cause a fourishing agriculture and a
dense population 10 take tho place Of bar
Yenness and dispersion. With good seod,
: good Implements abundant capital to buy
manure, or rtime and skill to accumulate
it, accompanied with good tillage and
good seasons, any one may make poor
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