Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-02-20
AGRICULTURAL SCIENTIFIC
VALUABLE TO FATHER FARifERs..

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The British Gardner,s Chronicle states tho tsI-
lowing interesting, and happy anecdole OF farmer
OF the olden time and school. .,-s-,
"This farmer who owned and occupied 1000 T.
cres Of land, had three daughters. When his el.
dest daughter married, he gave her enc quarter ef
his land for her portion, but no money and he found
by a little more speed and little better mansge-
lnent, the produce Of his farm did not DECREASE
/ When his second daughter married, he gave her
onehird Of the remaining land for her portion bus
no money. He then set to work and began to grub
up his furze and fern, and ploughed up what he
called the poor dry fuze land, even when the fuYts
covered in some close, nearly half the land AfteT
giving halt his land away to two Of his daughers,
to his great surprise he found that the produce IL.
creased; TIE made more money, because his now
broken furze land brought excessive crops, and al
the same time he farmed the whole of his land bot
ter, for he employed three times more laborers upon
it, he rose two hours sooner in the mornng had no
more dead fallows once in three years; instead Of
which ne got two green crops in one year, and ale
them upon the land. A garden never requires
dead fallow. But the great advantage wac, that he
had got the same money to manage 500 that hehad
to manage 1000 acres therefore he laid out doubls
the money upon the land. When his third and last
daughter was married, he gave her $50 acres or
half what remained, for her portion, and no money.
He then found that he had the same money 10 farm
one quarter ofthe land as he had at first to farm tho
whole. He began to ask himself few questions,
and set his wits 10 work how he was to maks a.
much Of $50 as he had done Of 1000 acres He
then paid off his baili, who weighed twenty stonsj
rose with the lark in the long days, and went to bed
with the lamb; he got as much more work done fsf
his money he made his servants, aborers, and hor.
H. H. -
and found lfat the eye Of the master quickened the
pace OF the servant He saw the beginning every.
thing and w his servants and laborers, instead Of
saying, ego and do it," he said 10 them, "lei us 20,
my boys, and do it," Between come and 90, he
soon found out very great difference. He grub
bed up the whole OF his poor grass land, and con-
verted great deal Of into meat for the sake Of
manure, and he preserved his blank water, the e.
cence of manure y cut his hedges down, which had
not been FLASHED for forty or fifty years stfaighten.
ed his zig gag fences cut his water courses straight,
and gained deal Of land by doing SO; made dams
and sluices, and irrigated all the land he could he
grubbed up many Of his hedges and borders, borders
covered with bushes, in some more Of his small clo
ses, 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
hews to feed foreign birds in the winter, he could
grow food Tor man instead OF migratory BIRDS Al
ter all this improvement, he grew more and made
more off 250 acres than he did from 1000; at the
very same time he found out that half Of England
at that time was not cultivated from the want of
means 10 cultivate il with let him rams and
sold him long horned bulls, (said r. Bakewell, and
told him the real value of labor both in doors, snt
out, and what ought To be done with certain NUM-
Der Of men, oxen, and horses, within given time.
| taught 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; ; told him how to make hot land colder, and
cold land hotter, light land sitter, and stiff land
lighter. soon caused him to shake off all his old
deep-rooted prejudices, and grafied new ones ia'
their places. told him not to breed inferior cattle.
sheep horses, but the best Of each kind for the
best consumed no more than The worst. My friend
became new man in his old age, and died rich.