Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-09-23
WHOLE NO. 213S.
for tbe farmer.
A STORY FOR AMERICAN FARMERS.


The last number of the Farmers Mag
azine contains the following under the
head of "Mr. Bakewell's anecdote, alias
good farming in nutshell" The les
son inculcated is one which so many
American Farmers would profit wonder.
fully by learning. that we transfer the
article to our columns
The far famed Mr.. Bakewell, of Dish
lev, Leicestershire, the founder of the
new Leicester sheep. and the man who
lived century before his day, used 10
tell an anecdote with exceedingly high
glee of a farmer of the olden school and
golden times. This farmer, who owned
and occupied 1000 acres of clay land,
but poor in point of money. had three
daughters looking their father very hard
in the face for money. He went to Mr..
Bakewell to know what to do for them.
Mr.. Bakewell told him to keep his mon
ey and give each daughter some land,
and make it known that he would do so.
and he would very soon lessen his family
at home. He then made it known that
he would give his eldest daughter $50
acres of land. | need not add that the
lady had forthwith plenty of beaus to
choose out Of; the fathers house was
haunted with young men, and she soon
got married, and the father gave her the
portion that he promised, but no money;
and he found by little more speed
and better management, the produce OF
his farm increased. Three years after
he made it known that he would give his
second daughter $50 acres of land, which
drew shoals of beaus, and she soon got
married, and her father gave her her
portion. He then set TO work, and be-
gan TO grub up his furze and fern, and
plowed up some of his furze land-nay,
and where the fulze covered in some
closes nearly half the land. After CIV
ing hall his land away TO two of his
daughters, he found the produce of his
farm increased; because his newly bro
ken up land brought him excessive crops.
At the same time he farmed the whole
of his land better, for he employed four
times the labor upon it; had no more
dead fallous the third year; instead of
which he grew two green crops in one
year, and ate them upon the land. A
garden, Mr.. Bakewell told him, never
required a dead fallow. He no more
folded from poor grass close to better
the condition of poor plowed one
But the great advantage was. that he
had got the same money to manage 500
acres as he had at first 10 manage 900
acres. Three years after the second
marriage, he made it known that he
would give his third daughter ESQ acres
of land. She had beau stood in read
mess, and three or four more within call,
and she was married in week. She
thought it never too soon to do well. and
the father portioned her off with land.
He then began to ask himself few
questions, how he was TO make as much
of ESQ acres as he had done of 1000
acres. He found necessity was the
mother of invention. He then paid of
his bailiff, who weighed twenty stone:
he found that he had been helping the
men to manage the master, instead Of
helping the master to manage the men.
He then rose with the lark in the long
days, and went to bed with the lamb
He got much more woIk done for his
money; for, instead of saying to his men
$50, and do it," he said, "Come, my
boys, let us go and do it." He found a
great difference between "come" and
ego" He made his servants, laborers,
and horses move faster-he broke them
of their snail's pace; he found the eye
of the master quickened the pace of the
servant. He grubbed up every bit of
furze on tie farln, and converted a great
deal of corn into meat. lie preserved
the black water, the essence of the man.
ure, and conveyed it upon the land. He
cut down all his high hedges, straighten-
ed his zigzag fences, cut his serpentine
water courses straight, and gained much
land by so dong: made dams and sluices,
ard irrigated all the land he could
Some of his hedges and borders were
covered with bushes from ten to fourteen
yards in width, and some of his closes
were no wider than streets; and grubbed
up the hedges and borders, and thew
several little closes into one. He found
that, instead Of growing Nhite-thorn
hedges and haws, to feed foreign migra-
tory birds in the winter, he ought to
grow food for man. al sold him long
horned bulls, and let him rams" said
Mr.. Bakewell, "and told him the value
Of labor, and what ought TO be perform
ed by certain number of men, worked
oxen, or horses, within given time. |
taught him how to sow less, and plow
leeper and better, and that there wers
limits and measures to all things; but,
above all, the husbandman ought 10 be
stronger than the farm. | taught him
how to make hot land colder. and cold
and hotter; light land stiff. aud stiff
and lighter. l advised him 10 breed no
Inferior cattle. sheep. or horses. but the
pest of each kind, as the best consumed
10 more food than the worst. Size has
nothing to do with profit. Il is net what
In animal makes, so much as what it
,osts making"
Ny friend became a new man in his
Did age, and rict, by Mr.. BakewelPs
mnroyed manaOement