Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-03-14
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A man can throw a.,AAyltnoney without
any, if he has a mind to. For all the good
you get from these perbfcals, you might
as we'll, probably, thrdg the money they
cost into the fire, they 4e nothing but hum
bugs
| pay in all only eight dollars
Eight dollars enogh to buy tip top
barrel of flour, and les ofbacon: and then
If you read these periodtais, there Is twice
the amount ofthe mona spent in time, read
ing them
/ do usually read, q hear read, almost
every word there is in item my boys and
l take turns in reading, and one reads aloud
while the rest work ...sa
Complete nonsense! no wonder your
shop don't turn out any more boots in day
than it does
Perhaps we don't do as great day works,
some days, as some of our leighbors; but l
guess that in the course ofa year, we turn
out as many, according to tie hands at work,
as most do
| suppose it is out of these publications
| you get your foolish notions about so many
kinds of fruit trees. Que Of my boys came
home awhile ago, and said Mr.. Briggs had
got lois Of fruit trees aud such things that
cost, | don't know how much, and wanted
me to buy some grape vines, pear trees, and
SO on. | told him it was all fooli>hness,
and not to let me hear himtalk about s. end
ing money so foolishy.'
You have, dare say, laid out ten or
fifteen dollars this spring?
Yes, nearly as much again have laid
out twenty-five dollars for trees and garden
fruits
twenty-five dollars wonder you are
not on the town, or in Jail, at least, before
now
[ am not afraid Of either. I'll bet you
the twenty five dollars I'll sell you that
amount Of fruit from thgse things for which
paid the twenty-five llars, in five years
cos. ySa biy d5sP sEaRd f6 iS Sag, hour trees will
| the time thrown awayAfn setting them out
] and taking care OF them.
! 'As for the time spent in setting them
4 out, or taking care Of them, it is as good ex-
j ercise as playing ball. wicket, or any thing
: else. While we were setting them out, one
: OF your boys came to get my boys to 60
: over Mr.. Moody's, where he said there was
e to be great time playing ball and J have
o no doubt, your boys spend just as much time
j. playing, as ours do with their trees, and sc
e forth and then something is done, but ir
D playing, the strength is all lald out for noth
ing
Well, it don't cost anything to play ball
but trees cost money
The foregoing conversation occurred il
,e the shop between two neighbors, both boot
a. makers, in town not more than twent,
n miles from Boston.
|; Mr.. Briggs, in whose shop the conyersa
.. ton took place, was a man Of more than or
q. dinary intelligence for one of his advantage
n. and circumstances in ffe. He had been
IN poor boy, and by industry, observation an
ke economy, had worked his way up in life, an
il reared and we'll educated family of chile
ed rem, who, like himself were industrious an
yn steady. For the few years past, he had b
come interested in horticulture, and both *
on exercise and amusement, had turned his a
zee tention to cultiyating'his one acre farm
no His attention was first called to this, by meal
IN of back number Of the New England Fa
ess mer, which was put round some thinE
os. bought at the store. Mr.. Briggs found Ii
he SO interesting that the purchased another
ro- the periodical depot, and then he became
,tv regular subscriber His sons became
er. terested in the same direction, and the i
,ur terest of the father and sons increased
rks the pitch indicated in the foregoing conye
mic sation.
the In time, every inch Of the acre of grou
ef- was brought under the spade, and almo
every best variety of fruit had pla
and there, and the father and sons found pleas,
hile and profit in the garden, after being coop
up in the shop till the fstent was done, a
.ner the exercise was far more profitable than I
ven spasmodic, violent exercise taken in gam
1ich Mr.. Chapman, the other neighbor, wa
- man Of the common stamp He lool
nity upon every thing ne"or uncommon, as fol
lace aud nonsense, and was ready to sneer
con- every one who stepped asioe from the. CO
ooor mon track. Il looked simply silly to hin
t. see man stay at home from muster
,rty, training, or Shows and spend his tim,
and cultisating garden or instead of oitel
,oral away the evening at the store, smoking,
,eed hearing or telling deal of nothing, or VIC
.me to spend the evening at home, read
icule such nonsense, as the Farmer and FL,
and culturalist affords.
hen Years pass. and Mr.. Briggs one
are farm shows that he and his boys have
read the papers in vain. They have le
Mr.. ed how to sci out.a tree, and how to u
their care of it after it was set out. Every Il
enies showed it received the right kind Of
|; the and care, and straightway began to b
/ for forth fruits meets for good cultivation.
ht to short time the wants of the family
lands more than supplied and the surplus fou
,f the ready market with the neighbors at
their prices.
,urels Those early apples, so rich and temp
4 and when all other apples were SO green
care hard and then such pears; they wen
T." fast 40 the sun and hsuss could npen I