Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-11-27


do not wish at present 10 part with" a,s
"I thought 50 but tako your own way"
Ere long Anson Lyman was astobished
TO fud that his noighbof had subscribed for
. tliini paper, besides bnying a lot Of books
for his children. sfs sd 4,
whats the use y he said, as he sat n.
his ncighbor's front room, and saw 4 large
pile OF books on the shelf. II want nv
children TO learn 10 work--not to be stend
ing their time over books. They get
schooling enough when our school Is open"
$50 / mean that my children shall learn
to work." returned Poland; "but that shall
not prevent them from becoming we'll cdu-
Gated. | would rather leave them with
good health, good characters, and well edu-i
Gated, than with thousands Of dollars each,
minus the education. asa
"Oho That's the way you meant TO
lay up a Thousand dollars; 10 have it in
books, and papers, and new tie-up-, and
, such like.r t - 's5t srt
"You shall see when the time is up
ave 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 manurcd so heavily and so
carefully; and on the second year he only
: noticed that his neighbor had "extraordinafy
GOOD LUcK" with his wheat, getting about
$ ninety bushels from three acres. But he
I had oooeoion to open his eyes on thc third
u year.
One evening, Just at sundown, he vent
over into Poland's field, where the men
!, were Just finishing raking up the three-acrc
G piece where the grain bad been the year
before-the first piece tho present owner
pIowcd up and dressed.
"Bcen polling some hay on here" said Ly-
man, as he saw the huge lunches Ct hay
i nearly as thick as they could stand.
@ "No--this was all cut from these three
acres" returned Poland
l Lyman counted the bundles and then es-,
d timated their average weight, and upon
Y reckoning up he found that the land had
Vt yielded not far from FOUR TUNs TO THE
y acre. He had Just got in the TWO ACRES
which he had first dressed upon the new
Y farm, and he had obtained short of two
tuns per acrel He knew that Poland had
er got ten bushels moro of wheat per acre
IL than he had done, and also more corn
lis He began to think; but yet he would not
IA let his money 90 for any such "ExpERIMENTs'
ay upon his place.
nd The five years came around, and Anson
be Lyman went on that day and sold fourteen
bushels of corn in order to get fourteen
as dollars TO put with nine hundred and eighty
six dollars which he had at home.
le "Well, Poland, I've got the prize p said
Lyman, entering the formers barn in the
III afternoon. 1t was early spring, just fvc
70 years from the day they bought, "lve got
d, the thousand dollars; now what have you
or gotG"
"Well--I have not far from four humid
I'd red dollars in money"
TO "Aha--I thought So"
"But, Arson Lyman" said Poland al
es most stenly, "are your eyes not opened
> yet?'
"Opcnedl What dye meant"
a. "Well, mean that my farm, to-day, will
ut sell for one thousand dollars more than
up yours will. Look at my hay-mow. There
al are nearly twenty tuns of hay: you have
not ten. And, mind you, ] have five head
y of cattle more than you have. Next sea-
er son shall cut moro hay from twelve acres
which have now regenerated, than you
r," will cut upon your whole forty acres; and
ed You know my hay is worth far more pound
We than your hay is. / told you had FIVE
lal more head of cattle than You had. For
lr- these five creatures ] can, within six hours,
take seven hundred dollars cash; but no
of such money can purchase them of me. All,
int Lyman, you have been saving money, but
nd you have taken it from your farm without
ny returning anything for it."
tie "Neyer mind-Pye got my thousand
OIL dollars, and I've got my farm, as good as it
was the day bought it,"
~ "Not quite, Lyman" ea
he "How so?" m E
I'd, "You'vc taken off some two hundred
av- cords of good wood" iae
got "Well--so you took off some.p
"Aye-but what took from my wood
20 lot put back upon my field. ] did not
ed take it from the farm" .saa .
hs, Mr.. Lyman went away with new thoughts.
Time passed on, and at the end of anoth-
led er five years the eyes of Anson Lyman were
wholly opened Poland had now raised
in quite n stock of noble cattle from his first
Ill purchase, and commenced 10 sell to the
ng beef market. Two hundred dollars was
the least any one of them brought when
~ fatted; and one bullock, four ycars old,
yer brought him three hundred and ten dollars.
are His twenty acre field was like garden,
the Welding, such rs was moved, an average Of
ing three tuns TO the acre. In short, his whole
Ugh farm was under the best of training and
md now yielded him back a heavy interest up
nd on all he had expended. During ono fsl
It he took over thousand dollars for stool
ere and produce and ha was offered five thou
sue sand dollars for his place, while Lymar