The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-07-08

puI cutting DOWN tree. Inc eneXt spring
the setter woods are somewhat decaved
and the equinoxical gales perhaps bow
some Of the'n down and scatter their
branches. Then the neighbors are invit-
ed ana thcg have ''lo" rliing," ud
burn up what will burn; tken they pre-
tend TO ploW 1t. bus it is poor apology
tor P!owln-, and then plant corn again.
Ae,t year the same process is repeated.
50 tAat after logging up the same piece
and ralsing corn on it for * or seven
year, IL succession, they get It cleared
enoHrh to SOW wheat on it; ard So they
keep on occasionally skipping a year,
iaGd 'ie,ting the ground rest" as thew
term it, and g-,w full llofwesds. they wear
it out after while and tlrn "a ont to grow
up to per&lnimoL bushes and iron weed.
/ saw number Of these blrren fields in
White and Galiatin counties. and felt in
dignant at the thriftlcss waste of good
things maLif stad on every side.
The soil is a strong. deep. clayeY and
sandy loan, which is 80 Iavishly fertile
that it takes twenty or thirty years the
above described treatment to Tennessee it
to death. 4 thriving Vernoutcr showed
me his splendid farm, and said it was
thought to be Worn ont and worthless
when he bought it, b4t that in Nree years
/ il was the best place IL The neigilb1rhood
% easily vas it restored by Il civilized
mode Of farming.
/ Imagine the insect plague might be
greatly abated If people wonld do any rea-
l>onab.e thing to check it. [ AN sure il
could N the h0Prc<, at any rate but the
housekeeping core ponds with the h.rm-
m@. There arc, however, spots and SET
Elements in bright contrast with the above.
scattered over Egypt, and lam glad t.
know that they are increasing.
rncre still exists good deal OF the
ormer violent and bitter preiudic. against
eastern people; yet when the thrift and
pros periTy of the northern pant Of the
State are mentioned. they always asc!ibe
It to the fact that it was settled from the
East. The Northern portion, with It's
ickleand boistefous climate, and It's dearth
Of wood and water, has not been settled
half 50 long as the mild well wooded and
watered regions Of Egypt, Vet surpas$es
it in population, intelligence. wealth, com
fort and good behavior, AMI all this is as
cribed toits eastern origin By The Yaukce-
hatn" Egyptians. Consistency !, q Jewel.
Illinois contains within itself an epi-
tome OF the Union, apd the verdict OF the
Egypt as is doubtless true
Within a few miles Of the junction Of.
the Wabash and the Ohio, was in a lon
cabin with "puuc,eon' fnors and doors.
that Is, honrcd and loored with split logs
,ewn level with an axe.-and was told
that the owner Of it. who was likewise the
owner o. two farms and dozen horses.
had lived there for forty years, for want
If boards 10 build better, all the bolrd~
in the region having been made by hand.
rs there were no saw-m;lls.
But why didn't somebody make a
saw-mill ?" was asked.
Wall, | reckon cause they didn't
know howl
Couldn't they send for somebody that
did?'
& reckon nobody thought on it, and
they didn't know wlar to seal no ways .
/" | should think it would be easier to
invent a saw-n,iil than to d. without for
fifty u sixty wears '->t;lat was the age
q tie su,tencut.)
Spcsctt wouldifanybod had thought
on it =
uae could have Whitfield one ont viii
an axe aud a jack kniIe, and brought tie
irons one At rinc ~ a canoe from Cincin-
natl in hat time, rather than 90 without
Spose likely you're Yankee, and
they alters make Things Wien thcy want
em. We have plenty Of mills now tho,
for two or three heavy felle.s from the
east built one or TWO and made heaps o
money at it. and some more chaps came
on and built more, so we are bulldog
better houses now, for We can oct plenty
oflumbcr cheap enough iallow we might
a mad EN- before, ii @e had just thought
enough about it -
All Of which reminded me of a STUPID /.
fellow who thus disparaged q work of great
genius" That was no great . he could
have written il himself II he hqd only
hoaght ot Il ;"
Notwithstanding some very great draw !
backs, the native resources OF this whole |
region are almost incalcuIable, and indus
try, carefuluess, economy and y,aaptjon
might make it teen with wealth and beau.
ty; but it never could make it healthy nor
comfortable, unless there coald be means
devised t. keep the rivers within bounds, /
and to abolish miasma, ticks, feas, CHI
gres, mosquitoes, and the whole innumera !
Bic multitude Of little pests after their
kind. just now the Wabash river is from .
three to eight and ten miles wide, and
rising daily, the richest farms in the coun-
try are navigated b. steam b oats, and have
been In SOAK for i've or six weeks. It.
has rained more than half Of the time for
weeks, 50 that half the corn is not planted