Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-02-17
BY A PATUkENT PLANTER.

II uTWIBT.
BY A pATUKENT PLANTER.
"What delightful mental repast you
offer me my old friend ''Farmer," for this
evening !" = said |, as my eye rapidly
run over the pages Of the "American Farm
er" the instant 1t came from the post office,
and saw the mass of pleasant matter with
which it was filled. Come boy, light the
Iamp-put hickory log on the 6re-bling
me The rocking chair, and you little ones 60
to The nursery.o All is done, and here am
composedly putting a quid in my mouth,
just as finished cutting the leaves. First
article as usual, very excellent directions,
Mr. Editor, you give for December, and ma
ny thanks to you for wishing us all such
| blessings as You do on taking your leave OF
of US for 1917, and say in thanking you
kindly, tie sumo 10 yon and your family"
I"Ihe Renoration Of acorn-om Lands."
What Col. Capron in the field agan:-
"OM Jirginav Meier tire ~ What fruit
fuI SUBJECT. What a glorious subject! How
important, II has become, and lis benefits to
The public have been commensurate with It's
importance must say Col. this article is
crack aricle-mv friend, you improve as
ias, in acrifing as your lands have improved
bv HE adoption of the ne1y srslem-nsiher
are no,C "ofd fcIders." True 10 his system,
suspect, as soon as he thought agriculture
4 pleasant and money makiay pursuit, he
embarked in il, and made himself acquainted
with ii as practical question, and studied
The theory too as q Science. He conse-
q"enly Tead aud thought deeply, he eXpe-
rmented upon what he bad found to be a
correct course so far as reason alone could
prove ii. He thus S!udied-has furnished
his mind with foreign ma,ier-wl,h bought
F.! tertiHzcrs-ihe printed experience and the
DRY Of able minds by these means he has
attained his ends-he has become not only
a practical farmer, but an able agricultural
writer, while his once barren and desnlate
! healhs have assumed the aspect Of verdant
la WINS, and The "wllderness has blossomed
as The rose" He no more trusted To the
threat b0re-out-a elbows-"Se f-rsn-
Grating sySfem," in reference to his mind
than he did to the same system to improve
his tields-had he done SO, he would have
been like many of his friends and nelg hbnrs.
congralulatIng himself at sixty years OF age
that they had never believed in book irarn-
ing for iarmers-all time lost and acDrse than
! Iost,-for i! put foolish notions in peoples
heads, and he never had read anv paper on
agriculture, and had made IA snug living, and
by experience made his farm yield great
deal more than it did when he go, ii; that
is, when ''he got H." it produced 4 bushels
Of wheat, and To 2 barrels Of corn peracre
which was forty yfdrS ago; and "noac my
GRANDSON fifteen gears old his month, tells
me he measured The crop OF corn and the
number of acres and ii was over FOUR bar
res TO the acre-and nly wheat yielded me
six bushels per acre, aud the iallow wheat
Welded TEN bushels, as near as ] could
come at it," Such would have been the
/ Co.'s statement when he go, to be sixty
remouating sySfem," by green crops or other
wise. On such lands as Col G.. owns unless
man 2ulsues his system of buying mineral
manures or others which supply to the land
what it wants to give it the ve9elallve and
life-suslainng qualities, he had better give
it away and run off, for it will be milestone
upon his neck, that will keep him doarn
here and hereafter too, if he be sensitive
and sensible man. There would be no hope
! for him. Those who have lived on those
lands heretofore lived like princes, for they
/ had other resources and the lands yielded
| far better; then one pound Of tobacco was
worth four pounds now, and then TOO, there
was market along the whole route of the
turnpike for any and everythiug-But they
worked the land to dea,h-but few know
the utter destilulion of Col, C's clent-oh
how sad ii was to see the kildees and hear
their mournfnl cry of utter starvation. A
facetious friend said to me, ':you wonder
why these birds do not remove; the truth
is, they have not the strength to get avay-
| if they rise above the ground the wind blows