Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-07-02

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o- A MODEL FARM IN SWEDEN. s.,
It covers about 1900 acres-much of it.
when the present owner took it, marsh Land
and uncultivated Now, he has it thorough
drained, by tile and stone-drains. One hun
ared and ninety acres are in wheat, thick,
full grain, of a quality which last year gave
Captain H. first prize in the Paris exhibi-
ton The yield, if our reekonings of
Swedish and English measures were correct,
was about thirty two bushels per acre, weigh
ing sixty-four and half pounds per bush
ell. There were other immense fields of tur-
nips of the best quality, and of oats, clover,
and grass. All were bounded by ditches-
hedges as he explained-collectin the snow
and killing the neighboring plants in the
spring. For similar reason, he had adopt
ed the English division of Glands" now, I
believe, beginning to be abandoned in the
. Scotch farming-in order to drain the snow
water from the surface. He took ne to see
hisnew English drilling machine (Garrett'st
worked with a pair Of horses by three men.
In another part of the field, Scotch harrows
of new construction were at work, and in
still another, the best Scotch ploughs. A
number Of women were also employed, in
breaking clods. In the barns was large
threshing machine, driven by four pairs Of
oxen, with connecting pulleys for even
draught; Scotch winnowing machines and
horse-rakes were also employed Reaping
machines he greatly needs but the difficult
ty thus far has been that the wheat is often
so much laid and tangled under the rains
that no machines he has seen are fully a
dapted for it. There is no country where
quick reaping is so important as in Sweden,
for the weather is very uncertain, and the
summer short. CWe have frosts now every
night, though August has week. yet to
j run In his barns, he pointed out, as an
e1 pefifaes1s, 51tsse strange N
Sweden, the use of shingles instead of thatch
or states on the roof!
The stables were built on the latest i'm
proved plan, with drains for urine, stone
troughs for water, and apertures from the
hay-loft above, and little contrivance of
his own, to keep the cattle from drawing
their food under their feet There were
stalls for one hundred COWS. These were
feeding between two fields of oats, with no.
thing to keep them from the crops but
cowherd, with little white, snarly dog -
Captain H. assured me that this dog could
drive the hundred cows in lane not ten
| feet broad, right through grain fields, with
out their doing the least injury. It was
! certainly the most beautiful herd of cattle
ever saw-all Ayrshire COWS Of first quail
ty, not very large, but SO tight-skinned !,
) small-headed, with straight back. muscular
: fore-quarters,> and full dew-laps. Many
were mottled with white a1s
Twenty are owned by the Government,
which intrusts them to this gentleman for
) the sake of improving the breed in Sweden
All he is obliged to pay as rent is the price
Of one bull-calf a year. Two-year-old heif-
ers he sells for about one hundred and eleven
| dollars. The butter and cheese he sells in
Stockholm " !"
3 In the horse stables, we saw some noble
t white Normandy horses, the same breed
which the old knights favored, and which
Wouyermann so often paints-a ponderous.
, strong breed. and with them few Norwe-
gian horses. .i ~ .,-s
The wages of bis laborers he thinks now
high in proportion to the cost of living yet
, he pays only an average of sixteen cents a
> day, and food. It was formerly twelve
: cents His cowherd-a very valuable man
gets twenty-five dollars year, and board.
7 The whole number of men employed is be-
: tween eighty and ninety. Several of his
workmen are soldiers-he himself was an
officer-and he related to me many interest.
r ing facts Of these men, which will mention
7 afterwards in connection with his more i'm
portant works. The grooms in his stables
were also, some of them, old cavalry soldiers.
He considers his experiments in "high
t farming" thoroughly successful. The pea
SAINT laughed at it at first, but they are glad
now to initiate it where they can. His pro-
perty which he bought for about $25, 900,
he holds now worth $100, 900. have no
doubt he has given an impetus to the agri-
cultural improvement Of all Sweden. -
Such men are public blessings Of such a
: country as this.-Bracs's 'sNorse Folk. " ~
One of Gov. Shades school maams has
) got into a place out West where the chill
, dren never heard prayer or preaching. So,
: one day, when she commenced her school
with prayer, one of the youngsters, went
? home and reported:
t'You never did see such school marm
l She got down on her knees and sWore With
all her might ~