The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-11-26

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You are right, LYMAN could not
raise it without selling something which
| do not wish at present to part with
4 thought SO. But taEe your own
way
Ere long Anson Lyman was astonshcd
to find that his neighbor had subscribed
for third paper, besides having a lot Of
books for his children.
What's the usel' he said, as he sat in
his neighbor' S front room and saW large
pile of books Oh the shelf. L want my
children TO learn 10 work--not 10 be spcn,
ding their time over books. They get
schooling enough when our school is
OPEN
50 mean that my children shall lcarn
to work returned Poland; but that shall
not prevent them from becoming educa-
ted. would rather leave them with
good health, good characters, and well
educated, than with thousands of dollars
each. minus the education
'Oho! That's the way you meant 10 lay
up a thousand dollars to have it in books,
and papers, and new tie-ups, and such
like
you shall see when the time is up
We shall returned Lyman, as he turn.
ed towards home.
Mr.. Lyman had not fully realized how
much corn Poland had received from the
land he had manured so heavily and so
carefully; and on the second year he only
noticed that his neighbor had extraordi-
nary GOOD LUCK with his wheat, getting
about ninety bushels from three acres.-
But he had occasion to open his eyes on
the third year.
One evening, just at sundown, he went
over into Poland field, where the men
were just finishing raking up the three
acre piece where the grain had been the
year before-the first piece the present
owner had plowed up and dressed
Been polling some hay on here, said
Lyman, as he saw the huge punches of
hay nearly as thick as they could stand.
'No--this was all cut from these three
acres,' returned Poland,
Lyman counted the bundles, and then
estimated their average weight and upon
reckoning up he found that the land had
yielded not far from FOUR TUNs TO THE
ACRE! He had just got in the TWO ACRES
which he had first dressed upon the new
farm and he had obtained short of two
tuns " acre! He knew that Poland had
got ten bushels more of wheat f} acre
than he had done, and also more corn -
He began to think; but yet he would not
let his money so for any such 'ExPERI
MENTs upon his place.
The five years came around, and An.
son Lyman went on that day and sold
fourteen bushels Of corn in order to get
fourteen dollars to put with nine hundred
and eighty-six dollars which he had at
home.
'Woll, Poland, I've got the prize' said
Lyman, entering the formers barn in the
afternoon. 1t was early spring, just five
years from the day on which they bought,
I've got the thousand dollars: now what
have you got' .......
Well have not far from four hun
dred dollars in money
'Aha--I thought SO.
But Anson Lyman said Poland, al
most sternly, ARE your eyes not open
yet?'
Opened! What d dye mean!'
We'll, | mean that my farm, to-day,
will sell for one thousand dollars more
than yours will. Look at my hay-mow
There are nearly y twenty tuns of hay: you
have not ten, And, mind you, | have
five head of cattle more than you have -
Next season | shall cut more hay from
twelve acres, which l have now regenera
ted, than you will cut upon your whole
forty acres; and you know my hay is
worth far more pound than your hay is,
/ told you | had five more head Of cattle
than you had For these five creatures l
can, Within six hours, take seven hun
dred dollars cash; but no such money can
purchas them of me. All, Layman, you
have been saving money, but you have
taken it from your farm without returning
for it,
Never mind--Pve got my thousand
dollars, and I've got my farm, as good as
it was the day I bought it,
Not quite, Lyman
How so?
you've taken off two hundred cords of
good wood II,
'Well-so you took off some
'Aye--but what | took from my wood
lot put back upon my field. | did not
lake it from the farm
Mr.. Lyman went away with new tho is
Time passed on, and at the end Of an
other five years the eeyes of Anson Lyman
were wholly opened. Poland had now
raised quite stock of noble cattle from
bis first purchase. and commenced to sell {
10 the beef market. Two hundred dollars {
WIS the least any one of them brought c
when fatted; ard one bullock, four years +
old, brought him three hundred and ten 6
dollars. His twenty-acre field was like
a garden, yielding, such as was moved, c
an average Of, three tuns to the acre. In {
short, his whole farm was under the best |
Of training and Improvement, and now t
yielding him back heavy interest upon +
Ill he had expended. Du ing one fall be j.
ook over a thousand dollars for stock aud e
C., H.,