Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-04-13
VALLEY FARMER.
THE ONE ACRE FARM.

How much laad have you got here
in your lot. Mr. Briggs
Il have one acre
One acre. and here you are taking
four agricultural papers: and oil be-
cause you have one acre of groundl-
How many such papers would you
have to take isyou had a hundred
acresl'
Il shouldn't probably need any more
than take now; you know, MIR. Chap
man. one can go through tho motions
on one acre as well as a hundred
"A man can throw away money
without any il he has mind TO. For
all the good you get from such period
icals, you might as we'll, probably,
throw the money they cost into the
FIRE. they arenothing but humbugs.'
Il pay in all only eight dollars
Eight dollarsl enough 10 buy tip
top barrel Of flour. and leg Of ba-
con; and then if you read these peri
odicals, there Is twice the amount Of
money spent in reading them
Il do usually read or hear read al
most every wortl in them; my boys
and / take turns in reading. and one
reads aloud while the rest work
Complete nonsensel no wonder
your shop don't turn out any more
boots than il doesl'
Perhaps we don't do IS great a
days work, some days, rs some Of
our neighbors: but | guess that in the
course Of year. we turn outas many
according to the hands at work as
most do
Il supposeit is out of these publica-
tons you get your foolish notions
about so many kinds Of fruit trees
One Of my boys came home while ago
and said Mr.. Briggs had got lots and
lots Of fruit trees and such things. that
cost, don't know how much. and
wanted mo TO buy some grapevines,
pear trees, and so on. / told him 1t
was all foolishness, and not to let me
hear him say anything more about
spending money so foolishly, You
have, / dare say, laid out ten or ff-
teen dollars this SPRING Fl
Yes, nearly as much again; l have
laid out twenty Eve dollars for trees
or garden fruit
twenty-five dollarsl wonder
you are not on the town, or in jail, at
least, before now
i'm not afraid Of either; I'll bet
you the twenty-five dollars. III sell
YOU that amount Of fruit from those
things for which l paid the twenty
fee dollars, in FIVE years.
'Donel I'llstand you; so your trees
will cost you fifty dollars. sure, In
money, be.ides the time thrown away
insetting them out. or taking care OF
them
AS for the time spent in setting
them out, or taking care ofthem, IL is
as good exercise as playing ball. wick
ct or anything else. While we were
setting them out, one OF your boys
came TO get my boys to go over to Mr..
Moady's, where he said there was to
bo a great time playing ball; and |
have no doubt your boys spend just as
much time in playing as mine do with
~ - h., II nly;ng tho STRENGTH
sH'I '. -. ao,h;rg
" 'sw, Ya !. ~ -, $50, anv,h;no ~ NAV
ball, but trees cost money
The foregoing conversation occur
~ ~ hs,was, two ns;ghho,.
s~,h he, ,nalers h a town moi more
49, No. ro;lss from Ros,on
', ~. pr;sgs in whose sbop The con.
.s,;on ,ooi nlace- vas a man nj
- ,h.n o,d,rayv ,ntelligerrs "a,
mo's y, s NJ aavaa.sss, and sirsams,s ~
css IN life. He had been a poor bow.
II.I.I..,v. ahsa,vaI,o, and a.o.
anu = Lad worked his his way in life and
~a.ssJ and yell educated n family AZ
Ia. .ho ,;ts himself ws,s
Sns,r;on. and steady For the few
-. nas, he had heeome interested
q horiieul,ure' and both for exercise
and amusement. had turned his atten.
,;cn a. eultiyalIno his zone acre farm /,
His attention was frst called 70 this.
nv means of a back number of the New
E,rland Farmer. which was nut round
sows things bought Al the store. Mr.
Rr;ggs found this 40 interestino that
ne nnrchased another NJ the periodical
depot and then became a regular
snhscr;her His sons soon became
irterested in the same direction. and
The interest Of the father and sons In.
creased 10 the pitch indicated in the
eo,s.o;rg conversation
n. ,;n,s sve,v inch ofthat acre ~
ground was brought uuder the spade.
and almost every best variety Of
fruit had a place there. and the father
and sons found pleasure and profit in
the garden after being cooped M in
the show till the sstsnt' was done. and
the exercise was fai more profitable
than the spasmodic violent exercise
taken in games.
Mr. Chapman the other neiphbor
was man Of common sense He