Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-04-07
A9r' culture.

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The celebrated Robert Bahewell. of Dish. q
ley, Leicestershire, and Ire founder Of the
new Leicester sheer, used to tell an anecd, ,,e
with exceeding high glee Of farmer NOT
only of the old school, but Of the oden times:
This farmer, owned and occupied 1000 acres
of land had three daughters When his eld.
est daughter married, he gave her one Guari
ter Of his land for her portion, but no money;
and nc found, by little more speed and :
little better management, the produce of his
farm did not decrease. When his second
daughter married, he gave her one third OF
the remaining land for her portion, but no
money He then set 10 work, and began to
grub mp his furze and fern, and ploughed UT,
what he called his poor dry furze land. even
when The fuTze covered in some closes nearly
half the land. After giving half his land ..
way to two of his daughters, to his great sur.
prise tie found that his produce increased
he made more money because his new bro
ken up furze land brought excessive CROPS,
and at the same time he farmed the whole
of his land better, for he employed three times
more laborers upon it; he rose two hours
sooner in the morning, had no more dead fai.
low once in three years; instead of which he
got two green crops in one year, and ate them
upon the land. A garden never reduires 4
dead talow But the great advantage was,
he had got the same money to manage 500
acres as he had to manage 1000 acres there
fore he laid out double the money upon the
land. When his third and last daughter mar
ried, he gave her $50 acres, or half what re-
manned, Tor her portion and no money. He
then found that he had the same money 10
farm one quarter of the land as he had a,
first 10 farm the whole. He began 10 ash
himself few questions and SET his wits to
work how he was to make as much of $50
as he had done of 1000 acres. He then paid
off his bailif, who weighed twenty stone
rose with the larks in the long DAYS, and
went TO bed with the lamb he got as much
more work done for his money he made his
servants, laborers, and horses, move faster:
broke them from their snairs pace and
found that the eye of the master quickened
the pace Of the servant. He saw the begin,
ming and the ending of everything and to
his servants and laborers, instead of saying.
'Go and do it," he said to them, "Let us 90.
my boys, and do it," Between come ard go
he found out great difference. He srubbed
up the whole of his furze and ferns, and ther
ploughed the whole of his poor grass land up,
and converted great deal of corn into meat
for the sake Of manure, and he preserved his
blank water, 1.-THE essence of manure y cut
his hedges down, which had not been FLASHED
for forty or fifty years straightened his zig.
gag fences; cut his water courses straight
and gained deal of land BIZ doing so made
dams and sluces, and irrigated all the land
he could; he grubbed up many OF his hedges
and borders covered with bushes, in some
places from 10 10 ii yards in width, some
more in his small closes some not wider than
streets; and threw three, FOUR five, and six
closes into one. He found out that, instead
of growing white thorn hedges and haw. to
feed foreign birds in the winter he could
grow food fer man instead of migratory birds.
After all this improvement he grew more.
and more of $50 acres than he did from
1000; at the same time he found ont that.
half of England at that time was not crl,iya.
ted from the want of means to cultivate il
with. let him rams and sold him long,
horned bulls, (said r. Bakewel,) and told
him the real value Of labor, both indoors and
out, and what ought to be done with GER
tain number of men, oxen, and horses, with.
in IA given time. taugh, him to sow less
and plough better; that there were limits
and measures in all things and that the
husbandman ought TO be stronger than the
farm l told him how to make hot land
colder, and cold land hotter, lieh, land sitter,
and stiff land lighter. soon caused him to
shake off all his old deep-rooted prejudices,
and grated new ones in their places. I
told him not 10 breed inferior cattle, sheep,
or horses, but the best of each kind, for tho
best consumed no more than the worst. My
friend became new man in his old age, and
died rich.--Gardiner' Chronicle.