The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-01-12

year DeIOfe-tne ufst tho present owner
had plowed up and dressed.
Been polling some hay on here, said Ly-
man, as he saw tho huge lunches of hay
nearly as thick as they could stand.
Moths was all cut from these three
acres returned Poland.
Lyman counted the bundles and then
estimated their average weight, and upon
reckoning up he found that the land had
yielded not far from four tons to the acre
He had just got in the two acres which he
had first dressed upon the new farm, and
he had obtained short Of two tons per acre
He knew that Poland had got ten bushels
moro Of wheat per aero than he had done,
aud also more corn. He began to think
but yet he would not let his money 90 for
any such experiments upon his place.
The fivo years came a4ound, and Anson
Lyman went on that day and sold fourteen
bushels of corn in order to get fourteen
dollars to put with nine hundred and oigh-
ty six dollars which he had at home.
well, Poland, I've got the przCr said
Lyman entering the formers barn in the
afternoon. 1t was early spring, just five
years from the day ON which they bo.sini
I've got the thousand dollars; now what
have you got?
'Well-I have not far from four hundred
dollars in money
'Aha-I thought so.'
But, Anson LYMAN said Poland, al
most sternly, 'are your eyes not opened
YETI
'Opened! What dye meanp
well, mean that my farm, to-day,
will sell for Que thousand dollars moro than
yours will, Look at my hay now. There
are nearly twenty tons, you have not ten.
And mind you, have five head Of cattle
moro than you have. Next season shall
cut more hay from twelve acres, which l
have regenerated, than you will cut upon
your whole forty acres; and you know my
hay is worth far more ton than yours -
told you l had five moro head of cattlo
than you had. For these five creatures l
can within six hours, take seven hundred
dollars cash; but Lyman, you have heen
saving money, but you have been taking it
from your farm without returning anything
for it,
Never mind-pve got my thousand
dollars, and I've got my farm, rs good as
it was the day I bought it.
Not quite Lyman
'How so?'
you've taken off two hundred cords of
good wood
'Wcll-so you took off some.'
Aye--but what | took from my wood
lot | put back upon my field. did not
take il from the farm
Mr.. Lyman went away with new
thoughts.
Time passed. on, and at the end of an
other five years the eyes of Anson Lyman,
were wholly opened. Poland had now
raised quite n stock of noble cattle from his
first purchase, and commenced to sell TO
the beef market. Two hundred dollars
was the least any one of them bro't when
fatted; aud one bullock four years DID,
His twenty acre field was like garden,
yielding such as was moved, an average Of
three tons to The acre. In short, his whole
farm was under he best of training and
and now yielded him back
a heavy interest upon all that ho had cx-
pended. During one fall he took over a
thousand dollars for stock and produc; an
he was offered five thousand dollars for his
place while Lyman could not have found
purchaser at fifteen hundred.
Dolly said Anson Lyman, sinking into
q chair, I've been fool "a fool say.
'Why-Anson-wbat do you meanr
Mean! Look at Poland's farm
Il have looked at it from the first.
You havel And what have you seenp
'Why, | SAW that John Poland was ma
king comfortable home for himself aud |
family, and increasing the value of his farm |
Len.fold.'
'And why didn't you tell me so9'
Il did tell you SO, husband, and you aaid
was fool
Il remember. Well-never mind. 'Tisn't
90 late now.'
On the next morning Mr.. Lyman went
over to his neighbor's and frankly said:
'Mr. Poland, you must help mo. l
want TO learn to be farmer
Il will help you with pleasure. Anson;
Ind You can begin far moro easily than l
lid, for you have money
And Mr.. Lyman commenced. The
housand dollars was nearly all expended
n tho work, but in the end he found him
elf tho gamer, and his dollars came bacn
o him with interest twice told. He had
earned lesson which many might follow
With profit.