Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-06-02
AGRICU LTU RAJ.
The Way to Make SLOW Progress in the
World

find that many men labor under great
mistake in buying poor articles a man.
whom We will call Unthriity, buys yoke Of
poor, ,ill-matched stags, three years old, for
thirty-iive dollars he keeps them three years
during which time they perform labor enough
to pay for their keeping and no more y at
which time he sells them for sixty dollars
His neighbor, Mr.. Thrifty, buys a pair Of
thrifty, well matched steers three years old,
for which he pay. sixty-iyo dollars; Unthrilly
laughs at him for paying such great price
for a yoke Of cattle, he keeps them three
years, during which time they ray for their
keeping and fifty dollars over; he then sells
them for one hundred and thirty dollars
Which Of these men use the best &C 'nomy
Mr. Unthrifty then buys a poor COW. tn
years old, in the fall of the year for ten dol
iars he keeps her four years during which
time she gives scarcely milk enough to pay for
her keeping Before the end of the third year
he begins to see she is not very prohtall',
and tries hard to sell her, but does not make
it out till the end Of the fourth year, when he
sells her for eight dollars and is very glad to
get that. Thrifty buys good COW six years
old at forty dollars. Unthrifty makes deri-
sion of him for paying so much for one COW,
when he might have three for the same money;
but Thrifty being man of a noble mind,
bears all the sneers with patience. He keeps
her four years, and in that time she pays for
her keeping and fifty dollars over and above
he then, after little extra feeding, sells her
to butcher for fifty dollars think Of this if
you please.
Mr.. Poor Economy buys at auction, an old
pleasure Wagon, entirely out of fashion, for
twenty dollars He has no use for the wag.
gon, but buys it because it is going cheap
During the first year he tries hard to sell it
Tor thirty dollars, but not succeeding tho
second year he reduces the price to Cwenty-
live, and finding no sale, reduces the price to
twenty dollars. Remembering he hired the
money to pay for the Wagon, he tries his
best the third year to sell it and finally sue
ceeeds. He has to take for pay an old horse
| eighteen years old in the fall of the year he
has no use for the horse, but takes him be-
cause he thinks he is better than no pay
1t costs him twenty-five dollars to winter the
horse he tries all winter to sci! him, and
makes out in the month of May to get fifteen
dollars for him ; or what he calls that which
is ten dollars and an old watch. His note
! which he gave for the purchase money of his
Wagon, has now amounted to twenty five dol
| lars he hires twelve dollars which with the
ten, make twenty-five. He then turns en- tho
old watch for three dollars, and makes out to
| pay the note. Mediate on this when it is q
proper time.
a certain husbandman wishing to get rich
very fast, sells all the hay, straw and manure
that his farm produces. At the end of five
years he finds that his neighbor sells twice the
amount Of produce per acre that he does not
knowing what is the matter, he wishes to get
rid OF his farm, but it being in a bad condi-
ton, he does not succeed he finally makes
out to swap with his neighbor, by giving him
two acres for one. At the expiration Of FIVE
years, the farm he swopped away is better