Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-02-16
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vALuABLE TO FATHER FARMERS.

The British Gdrdner's Chronicle states the
following interesting, and happy anecdote OF
farmer OF the oden time and school
"This farmer who owned and occupied 1000
acres of land, had three daughters. when
his eldest daughter married, he gave her one
quarter Of his land for her portion, but no
money; and he found by little more speed
and little better management the produce
of his farm did not decrease When his sec
ond daughter married. he gave her one-,hlrd
Of the remaining land for her potion: but no
money. He then set TO work and began TO
grub up his furzc and fern, and ploughed up
what he called the poor dry furze land, even |
when the furze covered in some cases, nearly
half the land. Alter giving half his land "a
way 10 two Of his daughters, to his great sur
prise he found that the produce increased
he made more money, because his new bro
ken furze land brought excessive crops, and
at the same time he farmed the whole Of his
land better, for he employed three times
more aborers upon it, he rose two hours
sooner in the morning, had no more dead
fallows once in three years; instead of which
he got two green crops in one year, and ale
them upon the land A garden never requires
dead falow. But the great advantage was,
that he had got the same money 10 manage
500 that he had to manage 1000 acres; there
fore he laid out double the money upon the
land. When his third and last daughter was
married, he gave her $50 acres, or a half
what remained, for her portion, and no mo-
ney He then found that he had the same
money 10 farm one quarter of The land as he
had at frs, 10 farm the whole. He began 10
ask himself few questions, and set his wits
to work how he was 10 make as much Of $50
as he had done Of 1000 acres He then paid
off his bailifI, who weighed twenty stone ;
rose with the lark in the long days, and went
to bed with the lamb he got as much more
work done for his money; he made his SER
wants, laborcrs, and horses, move faster, broke
them fran their snail's pace; and found that
the eye of The master quckened the pace Of
the servant. He saw the beginning of every
thing; and TO his servants and laborers, in
stead of saying ego and do it," he said TO
them, ''let us go, my boys, and do H." Be-
tween come and go, he soon found out very
great difference. He grubbed up the whole
of his poor grass land, and converted great
deal OF corn into meat for the sake Of manure
and he preserved his blank water (the es-
sence of manures y cut his hedges down,
which had not been FLASHED for forty or City
years; straghicned his zig-zag fences cut
his water courses straight, and gained deal
of land by doing 50 made dams and sluices
and irrigated all the land he could he grub
bed up many Of his hedges and borders, bor-
ders covered with bushes, in some more of
his small closes, some not wider than streets.
and threw three FOUR five, and six closes in
10 one. He found out that instead Of growing
white thorn hedges aud hews to feed foreign
birds in the winter, he could grow food for
man instead OF migratory birds. After all
this improvement, he grew more and made
more of $50 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 to cultivate it with. | let
him rams and sold him long horned bulls.
(said r. Bakewcll,l and told him the real va
luc of labor, both in doors, and out, and what
ought TO be done with certain number of
men, oxen, and horses, within given time.
taught him 10 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 10
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 grated new ones in
their places, told him not to breed inferior
cattle, sheep or horses, but the best of each
kind; for the best consumed 10 more than
the worst. My friend became a new man
in his old age, and died rich.