The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-02-21
And,
arhe dronc is a nuisance to the hive,
Stays, but can scarce be said TO live;
And well the bees, those judges wise.
Plague, ehsse and sting him till he dies"

Unless intend yield homes TO the fox and the owl
and abandon the graves Of loved the must be laid
asde and time, labor and more capital devoted to
the accumulation Of This is the crop OF all others
that need This the wand OF Midas that turns all
into gold This the key to the farmers treasury Farmers
should regard manure part Of their capital not to be Sc
cured by aud parchment but by substantial roofs and
Sheds As money which requires but to be properly employed
return him usurious interest They should husband as
their cents and shngs which they intend 70 increase to dol
lars And he that will not feed his crops with manures should
complain f his crops fail to feed him with BREAD We
must with liberal hand spread aness and fertility over our
wasted homeeads the form Of harm yard manures and
soon as can pshed every Of open
lands with marine and mineral to the full extent OF
capacity to such rtzers and Them and not I'll then,
will the and the know their masters fields and CRIBS
Wasted fields and naked sterity every where surround
u.s. Reduce your surface cease cultivate lands that do not
pay for lage concentrate abors and manures strive
every to furnish larger and better supplies ofdomesc
Let every thing that is capable OF decomposition be
gathered up; permit waste conne your stock to your
fields heds do not suffer them TO live IN lanes Or your
neighbours old fields In Orange county for all time TO come,
every mans crop be measured with perfect certainty BY
the quantity and quality Of his The books full
Of the most minute details to the comparative value the ae
cumuaon, preservation and application Of manures 10 no
worldly matter better devote and attention.
Seek make your homes lovely especially in the OF
your children; induce them aid you ornamentng It. Chill
en employed and happy home the best guarantee for
virtue aud devotion TO parents No cottage so humble that 1t
may be made by lowly that may
not be enbeshcd by the hand Of industry The ntrm pau
per- grounds provided by public charity feels himself
wiser and better amid shrubbery trained and trimmed
by his hands. No is poor but that he cOnr
butte something make world beautiful. Tie
leave behind him Of his good and Of his refined
tase IL Of his opulence lie who plants tree, sets an
orchard builds barn. may be longer and better
membcrcd than hc who dies millionaire The the
essamne the door Of homestead the lily Of the valley at
the grave of friend Is quite certain indication O pure
heart and gentle feeling gded walls and silver plate Or
chiseled marble.
Surround your dwellings By fruitful and we'll kept gardens.
patch cabbage six of Irish potatoes and three rows
Of 0nions do constitute farmers garden. Use only the
best see and plant only the best fruit Ii easy TO cu-
tvae the Yergaue and the Bartlett the Choke Pear; the
Green Gage as the Horse Plum. No better entitled to
all the good fruits Of the earth, than he who tls IL Aud urd
Bacon declares Of the garden, that IL affords the purest OF
human pleasures the greatest rereshment TO the spirit OF
without which, buildings and palaces but gross handi-
works."
Money is as much the sinew Of Agricultural Improvement
il is Of In the il brings plenty and concntmen
return, aud not often liberal return, than
when udcpuy applied TO agricultural Improvement. Like
good seed good ground, II back with many
fold Use your money like the thrifty and entcprising in the
other pursuits Make yourselves the Of the best tools.
especially Of the best poughs, teams aud carts and at any
cost, of the best seed.
BY iudcous OF money, and by wiser and better appll
cation OF labor not unreasonable predict, that. stmu-
lated Is hoped the agricultural heart and mind OF the
county will be- by the passage Of the Locomotive our
plains aud valleys ia the next ten years the products aud
values of Tie County, agricultural and mechanical may be
nearly doublcd This may exavagant but what has
been elsewhere by manurng draining good ~
ag alternating crops clover aud grass cuture aud substis
tung aow crops Tor naked aows, undertake to foI
the farmers Of Orange, can, will and shall be accomplished
here.
These are the means by which Great Britain this
obtains her largest yield Of wheat from her old and deeptcd
sois These are the means by which the valley OF the Po
Flanders aud many Of the older portions oi the world as