The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-11-25

up tnOusan0 OF 0oIlafs 10 nave II IN DOCKS,
& papers, and new tie ups and such like"
"You shall see when the time is up"
"We shall,n returned Lyman, as he TUNED
towards home.
Mr.. Lyman had not 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
biz neighbor lad extraordinary 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's field, where the men where
just finishing making up q three acre piece
where the grain had been the year before
|-,he first piece the present cwnst had plowed
up and dressed.
"Been polling some hay on hare" said Ly-
man, as he saw the huge punches of hay
nearly as thick as they could sisud.
"No-,his was all cut from these three
acres," returned Poland.
Lyman counted the bundles, and then es-
timaied their average weight, and uponreck-
oning up he found the land had yielded not
far from four tons to the acre! He had just
got 10 The ttDo acres which he had first dressed
upon the new farm, and he had obtained
short of Two ions per acre! He knew that
Poland had got ten bushels more of wheat
per acre than he had done, and also more
com. He began to think, but yet he would
not lei his money go any such "eTprime'ats"
upon his place.
The five years came around and Anson
Lyman went on that day and sold fourteen
bushels OF corn in order TO get fourteen dol
lars TO pnt with nine huadred and eighty six
dollars which he had al home.
"Well, Poland, Pve got the prizs!, said
Lyman, entering the farmers's barn in the
afternoon. ]. 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-l have not far from four hundred
dollars in money"
"Aba-l thought So"
"But, Anson LYMAN said Poland, al
mos, slernly, are your eyes not opened yetp
"opened what dye meant
"Well, | mean that my farm to-day will
sell for one thousand dollars more than yours
Look at my hny-mow. There are nearly
twenty tons of good hay; you have not ten.
And, mind you, ! have five head of cattle
more than you have. Next season shall
cS rSo!s-.,-y f-s.n '~rt-S ceres, which
have now regeneraed, than you will Gu, up.
on 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
can within six hours, take seven hundred
dollars cash but no such nancy can pur-
chaee them of me-"
"Ah, Lyman, you have been saving mo-
ney, bat you have taken it from your farm
without returning anything Tor it,"
"Never miud-'ve got my thousand dol
lars, and I've got my farm, as good as i, was
The day boughtit.
"Nol quite Lyman"
elbow sop
"You've taken off two hundred cords of
good wood"
"Well-so you took of some."
"Aye-bul what took from my wood lot
] put back upon my field. did moi take it
from the farm"
Mr.. Lyman went away with new thoughts
Time passed on, and at the end of another
five years the eyes of Anson Lyman were
wholly opened. Poland had raised quite a
stock OF noble cattle from his first purchase,
aud commenced TO sell TO the beef marker.
Two hundred dollars was The least any one of
Them brought when fatied and one bullock,
four years old, brought him three hundred
end ten dollars. His twenty acre field was
like garden, yielding, such as was moved,
an average ofthree tons TO The acre. In short
his whole farm was nnder The best of training
aud improvement, and now yielding him
back heavy interest upon oil that he had
expended. During one fall he took over q
thousand dollars for stock and produce and
he was offered five thousand for his place,
while Ly man could not have found pur.
| chaser at fifteen hundred!
dolly said Anson Lyman, sinking into a
chair. "lve been fool la fool say"
"Why--Anson--what do you meanl
"Mean? Look al Poland's farm.n
81 have looked at il from the first, Anson."
"You have2 And what have you seen?
"Why-Isaw that John Poland was ma.
king a comfortable home for himself and
family, and increasing the value OF his farm
lenfold."
And why didn't you tell me so!
81 did tell you go, husband, aud you said
| was fool"
81 remember. Well.-Never mind--tisn'
too late now"
On the next morning Mr.. Lyman wen
over TO his neighbor's and frankly said,-
"Poland you must help me. | want tt
learn to be farmer.
81 will help yon with pleasure, Anson; ans
you can begin far more easily than did, 10
you have money!"
And Lymon commenced. The thousand
dollars was nearly expended in the work, bu
in the end he found himsel the gamer, an
his dollars came back TO him with interes
twice-icld. He had learned a lesson whic
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