Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18
.farmrr's Department,
Three Kinds o. Farmers, Our Neigh.
bors, Jones, Smith and Johnson.

bors, Jones, Smith and Johnson,
Within the range Of our daily vision, are TIVE
farmers who represent two distinct CLASSES Oi
agriculturiSts Farmer Jones aim and end il
all his operations is to secure present profit, re-
sarllcss Of the future His house needs re-
pairing and painting, not only for its appear
unce sake but also for its preservation but
ns that would take something at once out oi
his pocket and yield no immediate return, he
concludes to let it go, for this year, ut least,
So with his barns and other out buildings
He constructs them ont Of the cheapest mate
rials and in hasty manner, satisfied 1t they
answer the present, to let the future take care
of itself Hence We see his foundations Civ
iug way after the first years frost, aud his
bindings leaning ut all angles the doors,
hing by leathern or old iron hinges, breaking
the siding, mperfectly nailed on blowing T #
and the floors made of thin and poor lumber.
breaking through. His fences are in the same
predicament. Wanted only to answer pres,
ent use, they are patched up out OF old ard
rotten lumber, and are constantly break n
down, and exposing his crops to the InturS onS
Of hungry cattle His mode of tiIiage pro
cceds on the same principle. Draining. ma
nuring, sub soiling-he has little faith in them,
certainly no further than he thinks they Will
bear on the present years crops. SklnnIng,
is his style Of farming this requires no out
Law for an uncertain future all that he gets
ont OF the land is so much clear gain. And
he carries ont this principle in his general style
Of life His education sutiices for the wants
Of to-day so will not take the trouble to III
form himself against the demands Of the tu-
ture Hence, books and paper containing
solid and useful instruction are banlshed from
his table to make room for those adOrdIng en-
tainment only. H. manages to get along with
his present character as a man aud citizen :;
so he dou't care to build up q reputation for
integrity, generosity, intelligence and virtue.
Alas, too, perhaps he cares only for the trIfeS
of the present lfe regardless Of the grander
scenes of eternity !
Over the hill yonder, lives farmer Smith. an
entirely different sort Of man. Can it be that
he and Jones both descended from Adam
His eyes have have a good deal OF the tcle-
scope in them, being very much given to look
into the distant future He thinks, plans
dreams and talks of the time to come. He
is he is going TO be a grand farmer, one Of these
days. When he gets his plans all matnrcd
and when he gets them all! or half Of them eX-
ccnted, won't people open their eyes and say
he's long-headed man. that farmer Smith, a
man of bottom, a genuine " brick 2 Won't
they?
To his very bones. he believes in draining,
and that thorough draining To prove it, he
has been at work for two years past, on a
range of sand hills, cutting trenches down their
sides four feet deep and laying them with pipe
carted long distance at great expense. To
be sure, he has never caught his drains dev-
ering much water yet, but they are sure to do
so by and by the principle of draining is a
good one, and is certain to show grand results
at a future dav. Sub Soiling is another arti-
Gle in his creed. And lie is proving his faith
in it by sub-sOil blowing twenty acre lot Of
meadow land which has surface sol Of viz
gin mould some two or three feet deep, resting
on a porous Sub>tratum Of grayc,iy loan. II
neighb0rs look over the fence and sl,; ke their
heads, and tell him they think he had better
use first the rich so, Oh the surface, before
going down after that near the centre of the
earth, or if he is trying to loosen up the sub
soil so that his crops can send their roots deeper,
he needn't trouble himself to TO that, for his
clover and other crops already strike their roots
lower than the point Of his deepest pow Bat
he looks wise, ar.i lets them talk on he
thinks they who piow shallow. are shallow
men they have no thought for the future
they have not read Of the grand results of
sub so;Iing. One Of these days perhaps, they
O: their children will see something
Need We tell anything more about farmer
Jones He buildS stone fences six feet
broad at the base, so as to have them dura-
bic how he is now laying wide and deep the
foundations of an immense barn, which it took
him five years to plan and how these and
his other schemes for the future are on so grand
and costly n scale that they exhaust his pres
cnt means Of living comfortably, and keep him
continually in debt ? He is large hearted
man, and has large ideas, bat he rides his hob
By to death
AS we have observed the ways Of these two
men. Jones and Smith, we have often thought
what grand thing it would be, if the two
could be mixed together" and so form a
new prodnct, such rs we found in third neigh
Dor Mr.. johnson Mr.. johnson does not
manage his farm for the present profit only,
lat so as to secure immediate returns, and vet
provide for the future He constructs his
buildings in a sufficiently durable manner, and
then keeps them in repair. He drains and
sub soils only where such operations are need
ed. and will pay at once and in all time to
come. He does not crop q piece Of land with
out restoring the fertility taken from it. He
manages his grain aud grass fields, his orchards
and his garden so as to reap present benefit
and still greater returns in future. 4 md while
Mr.. Smith and Mr. Jones left alone will come
to poverty, the two combined in Mr. Johnson
would prosper, first and last.--imcrican Agri-
ca!tarist.
SMOKING CHMNEYs.-JameS II. Stout, Of
Wheeling, Va, writes that simple plan to
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