Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-11-20


venting it elsewhere. Concurrent with
these bitches should be deep, thorough til
lage, in ridges, with numerous and we'll o.
pened water burrows, and these lands will
then be prepared, if already rich, to pay we'll
for the care and industry bestowed upon
Them, or if not already rich, they will be
ready TO become SO in an eminent degree
by the use of lime and putrescent manures.
! cannot repeat too often, nor urge too
strongly upon each and every farmer who
hears me, the absolute necessity of freeing
his lands from redundant moisture Water
is essential to vegetable growth, so i, is to
the life Of man, but too much will drown
both the one and the other. Upon wet lands
wilhou. sufficient drainage, the wisest and
best and most liberal sy stem ofimprovemeni,
persevered in with the mos, prudent econo-
my and untiring industry, will end only in
disappointed hopes, exhausted energies and
early poverty. Preceded by proper drain
age the picture mus, be reversed, and album
dant harvests, gratiied expectations, full gra-
naries, and overlooking Golfers will crown
the youth and rejoice the old age of all
who thus practice such system.
as in everything else, is the proper adapa-
ton of means to ends. We should never
attempt more than we have means to &C
complish, and all that we do attempt let US
do we'll and thoroughly. Land is the most
grateful of all things and repays mos, lbe-
rally kind and generous treatment, but it
cannot be cheated, and cold and scan,y are
its acknowledgements TO scanty and grndg-
ing givers-of wordy promises it takes no
heed. Most Of US attempt to cultivate too
much land, consequently we improve little
or none. We do not manure, we do not
drain it, we imperfec,ly I'LL it, and we reap
scan,y harvesls. We do not proportion our
means to the end proposed, but nature en-
forces the harmony we have disregarded,
and we find the results proportioned TO the
insufficiency Of our means. Let us be con-
tent with smaller beginnings and enlarge
our operations as our means increase. Let
us see what our capital :s-what anon Of
labor we can command, and then fix by
these upon the quantity of land we are to
cultivate, taking care to let that amount be
not greater than we can manure in some
way during the year and cultivate perfectly,
remembering always, that the expense Of
filling an acre of land for year is quite
equal to the cos. Of manuring that acre. An
acre MANFRED will produce more than two
acres not manured. Then. if we have cul-
tiva,ed two acres before without manuring,
let US now cultivate but one, and apply the
balance and expense heretofore bestowed
upon the lilage Of the second acre, to ma
nuring the single one we now till. So we
shall have produced better crops and added
besides ali acre Of improved land to our
solid wealth. If your means enable you
thus 10 cultivate fifty, or an hundred, or a
thousand acres annually, this reasoning will
equally apply. The truths are the same,
without regard to quantities, they are writ
ten upon the book Of nature by the hand Of
God and cannot be changed. Be sure TO
have always the best tools and implements
and a plenty Of them. Let your laboring
men and laboring beasts be we'll and abun-
dainty provided for. Ii is as idle TO expect
beasts to labor efectually without sufficient
food, as i. is to expect your crops TO grow
with out rain or dew. lie, them then be a
bundan,ly fed. To this end your early care
should be to make good meadows. These
make good stock, and good stock make good
team, full mea. houses and large manure
heaps. So you will 60 on, finding as you
progress and thrive and prosper, that one
good thing produces another, and another,
and another, realizing for you what ] sal
out with telling you, that ell the various
ways of restoring and improving our lands
and our system of agriculture are the ways
of pleasantness and peace.
But, Mr.. President, Of what avail is il that
speak thus? How can we spporlion means
to ends when we have no means; when all
our means are dssipa.ed by vanity and os-
tentalion, or something worse? dow can
we hope for solid improvement, how to see
our county smile and bloom and blossom
like the rose, as ii can and should do, when
our hearts are not at home, and oar admira-
ton, our affections and desires are fixed on
the vain frivolites, the tinsel and display,
the likeness and dissi patton of distant cities,
fashionable watering places, or other con-
trivances to delude and plumber and ruin us
and ours? God has given us as fine coun-
try as man need desire to inhabt. He has
blessed us with good intelligence and am
pie means to acquire and enjoy indepen-
dence and the perfection of human happl-
ness, we, our county is exhausted and poor,
and we make ourselves poor cringing DEEPEN
dents upon the least important, q purposely
use mild lerms,) most insignificant of man
kind, and we import, and practice, and dffuse
their folies, their views, their heat,lesness
in our families and amongs, all our people.
The time was when these things were not.
God gran, it may come again and speedily
!, is coming, ] believe; but it is not
Which of US, Mr.. President, can make a
short circuit in his neighborhood and moi
come in view of the site of the once happy
home of prosperous and happy family
now waste and desolate, over The hearth