Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-11-10

farm that knew how to bind = sheet o.
wheat. They carry it up loose as it i
cut, and shock or stack it in small stacks
1t would strike US that it must be SLOW
process, and very awkward handling it il
all subsequent operations but I an tolt
this plan has many friends, and in practice
it may have more to recommend it thai
strikes us at first view. Hands will &c
great dexerity in binding. I have see1
them, and no doubt you have many o.
them in Montgomery county, that whel
hard pressed BY the machine would biut
as they walked, only stacking their pac'
as they paused for an instant to take VI
the gavil, then throwing the band rount
and tying it as they walked on.
While in England last summer, dining
with some Of their agriculturalists, con
versation happening to turn on their grea
loss Of grain from the weather in harvest
ing, 1 suggested the round shock with it
architectural roof, which l saw was new t
them. An Englishman is slow to believe
and especially to believe that any way bu
his own way is the right way. l finally
told them l would not a,temp. to convince
them BY argument, but if there was any
wheat handy, would like to show them
the round shock, the "American stock" al
called it, with its architectural roof
"Agreed," said they, and We adjourned
from the table to the bsrn Hoor, where
at once erected several shocks in sbout th,
time a. they admitted it would take Il
wind-rov it. They expressed great aini
ration of the shock, seemed much tikeI
with it, without dissenting voice and all
proposed to try it this harvest, and some
promised to repor. to me the result.
The agricul.urist certainly has the ad
vantage in the great and all-important con
siderstion Of health over al deDizens O
cities. Dr.. Draper, the President Of th'
Medical Faculty Of New York, stated il
his annu,l addrsss Of 1858, that five hun
dred children under two years Of age dice
weekly in the city Of New York. w
have have seen this number exceeded ths
present year BY their published weekly
reports Of mortality. More than Eve hun
dred mothers have been made to mourn
between the two Sabbath days for the los.
of young children in the city Of New
York. But Dr.. Draper states this addi
tional, bold, and startling fat, that but
for the resources Of population they draw
from the country, the population Of oul
large cities would become extinct.
As an offset to this greater risk encoun.
tered to their health and lives BY the Gen.
izens of cities, it is said they enjoy greater
for accumulatiug wealth, the
principal object for which the American
citizen is supposed to live! and certainly
the object in the pursuit Of which he often
prematurely dies. There may be much
doubt, 1 apprehend, - to even the correct
ness Of this pretension. Farmers have q
very queer way Of keeping accounts, keep
ing them, for the most part, "in the head," /"
rs it is called bad place to keep columns
Of figures. They credit the poor farm for
what is left when they have got their liv-
ing out of it. When We have lived we'll,
and dressed we'll, rode we'll, and entertained
we'll, we usually give the poor farm credit
for what is left-what We can't eat up or
spend, and, 1 had almost said, give away.
The farmer has lived in good house.
A merchant in the city would have to pay
from $500 to $1,000 for As good . one.
He has set good table. The merchant
going to the meat market, the vegetable
market, the fruit market, the baker and
lairyman, would have an item in his neat
y kept ledger Of one thousand more for
house expenses. Another charge ofa cou-
pie Of hundred or more would go down for
'uel; which the farmer would haul from
lis woods and make no account Of. An
,ther charge the merchant would make
or his ridiug-either the expense Of keep
ng a carriage, or bills paid for hiring at
livery.
Here then is made up of out-goes for.
,eccssaries in order to live in city, some
wo thousand dollars and upwards, equal
o the interest on the entire purchase mon
y Of fine farm, and Of which items, or
heir aggregate, the farmer takes little or
10 notice in any account be may keep with
lis farm. Yet the FIRST thing that money
s wanted for, the first thing it is expend-
d for, is to support the family.
l would like to see an account stated,
ay by master in chancery, where be was
Instructed, from the character Of some lit
cation that might arise, to charge the
armer with each item he had consumed
It retail city prices, and for each ride be
lad taken at livery stable prices. 1t
would show up some Of our " economical
armers" so called, l suspect, as great
The rate at which they had
ived would not i little surprise themselves