Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-09-07

SINNERS valuable work, The Plough, The
Loom, and The Anvil" The veteran edi-
tor Yields his pen with undiminished igor,
and for purposes eminen!ly practical and
useful:
THE SEVEN WONDERS OF NEW ENG
LAND, IN THE EYES OF A SOUTHERN
TRAVELLER.
l. Every man living in "bran spanning"
new house, or one that looks as if it had
been painted as white as snow within the
pas, week.
9. All the houses of wood where all
the fences are Of stone, which IN some
places lie so thick as to require to be re-
moved at the rate of ton from six feet
square.
3. Wood for house and kitchen all sa,o-
ed and split up into one uniform length
and size, and snugly piled away under
cover Of an open shed, so that the work
Of house and kitchen may suffer. the least
possible interrup,ion-in word, he sees
a place for every thing and everything In lis
place.
4. The care obviously bestowed III the
saving and preparation Of manure by accu-
mutation and composing.
S. Universal attention to good supply OF
fruits, adapted 10 the climate.
. 6. Not a poor or superfuous OK, COW,
horse, hog, or sheep, the proportion OF the
short-fived expensive horse being on every
farm wisely and economically small.
z. The seventh wonder is, after days
ride, twenty five years ago, with great uni
formlv in their stages, at the rate of z l-2
miles an hour, now on railroads q, the rate Of
3O.) where, in the name of all that is mys-
,erious and inexplicabIe, are these peoples
staple crops? What do they make for
sale !? Where are theirstack yards of wheat,
straw and fodder, and oats and rye? Where
their ,obacco-houses, and their gin-houses,
their great herds of cattle and swine, root
ing in the swamps, browsing in the fields,
or reposing in the shade? How is i. that
these people contrve to keep ont of debt,
and vet never repudate? How do they GO
on improving their rocky land, carrying
tons of stun from the hills above TO under
drain he'meadows below? building school
houses in sight Of each other, and expend-
ing millions on education, while buying for
themselves, one little bank stock, another
a liue railroad stock, and little stock in
neighboring factory, at which he sells his
milk and his apples, his carrots and potatoes,
once in whAe giving 800 an acre for
small farm in his neighborhood Dear
reader, to explain all these Wonders Of New
England thrift and go-aheadilivenes in full
would make long story, but if you will
turn back to the FIRST page of the cover Of
this journal, you will see at once the key
to the riddle! There you see the se:re,
by which alone poor land throughout a
country car be pruden.ly and economical
Nv 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, and there only, where the cul-
1ivators of the soil have the wisdom to en-
courage all other branches of american in
dustry, that you will ever see or hear of nine
sy tons of milk and strawberries going by
one road, in single day, to be consumed
before the milk can sour, by weavers, and
blacksmilhs, and shoemakers, and talors,
and churchmen and laymen, printers and
printers devils; and what is more, some of
these perishable articles going in one night
probably at least 100 miles, TO be eaten fresh
the next morning for breakfast! So much
for easy and expeditions channels of COM
muncation that concentration lays over the
ground, to provide for the transportation of
the food that concentration only can bring
out of the ground.
1t is in this that we find the secret for
sn,aking poor land rich." it is not all the
premiums that can be offered, nor prize es-
says, though they be spun out as long as
the man-top bowline, that can convert
poor exhausted country into rich one, and
cause Aourisbing agriculture and dense
population to take the place of barrenness
and dispersion. With good seed, good i'm
pIements, abundant capital to buy manure,
or time and skill to accumulate it, all ac-
companied with good tillage and good sea-
sons, any one may make poor land produc-
tive; but that is not the knowledge that is
needed-we have had that illustrated in
practice, and told on paper in a thousand
instances. Neither de we want militia mus
tering, nor martial mHsic, nor raree- shows to
attract gaping crowds of tboughlless spec.a-
tors. What the agriculture Of the old States
needs, with their thousands of undrained
and unculivaled lands, or lands exhausted
of their fertility, and stationary in popula-
aion, is not the knowledge of how to make,
bu, where he can find market for what he
could make, if there were people near,
with money in their pockets and mouths 10
be fed.
Where is the farm, in Maryland or Vir-
gina, that might not produce its bushels Of
strawberries and tons Of butter and cheese,
and beets, and carrots, and potatoes, and
cabbages, if there, as in New England, the