Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-07-09

clean the outhouses for pigs poultry,
tools, ETC.. well arranged the bees humm-
ing endless music in thin long row behind
the house the garden, the fields, the for
est these, together with the coming aud
going Of herds, the steady progress of va
rious kinds Of work, the unwasteful abun-
dance OF provisions, which in cities are
dolod out 10 close measure eggs fresh eve
ry day, sweet milk oppressed with cream,
oil manner of fruits in their season, and
above at, vegetables fresh from the garden,
whose true flavor is unknown in cities,--no
wonder that farm excites the Imagination,
and raises up picture Of delight and en-
joyment. Speaking Of vegetables, it may
be cruel to say to people in the city that
they have no idea of the flavor of peas or
Of corn not unless they remember how
they used to taste when they lived in the
country.
They must be eaten alive or they are
poor luxuries They should be plucked
only long enough to be shelled or shredded
for cooking.
Then, in the sultry days Of July and
August, as the great tureen comes steam
ing with the one, and the huge platter
smoking with pyramids Of the other, who
cares for meats, or for all costly confec-
tions Peas alone are feast and sweet
coan, in its various methods, on the cob, cut
off and mixed with cream, or raised into
the ineffable glory of sHccOtaSh lis ban
quet which would have made all the gods
forget ambrosia aud nectar, and stroke
their boards with celestial satisfaction.
But this is mere episode. To risit
farm as good company, to have horses at
your disposal, to sit in the shade and hear
the hens cackle for eggs laid, and cau-cau-
caukle for contentment; to watch the work
men at their ask,-all this is quite charm
ing. But to carry on a farm is another
thing-quIte
A farm is vast mandatory. Instead
of buildings and machinery, you are to
carry on manufacturing operations through
the agency of the soil. No labratory turns
out greater variety of products none
requires for its highest success more knowl-
edge, skill and business tact. If chem
ist were obliged to evolve his various pro-
ducts in such way as at the same time to
build his houses, create his furnaces and
implements, his task would be like the farm
ers who, while raising crops, is also
bringing up the condition of his ground, and
fitting it for its best functions.
1t is not difficult for a man to raise good
crops if be has money enough. A rich man
can walk out of the city upon poor farm,
and in one year put ten thousand dollars
worth Of expense upon it. He can make a
soil, if he has money enough But wheat
that sells for dollar bushel, will cost at
least three; and corn for seventy-fve cents,
will have cost two dollars 1t is not bard
to get good crops if profit is of no account
A rich man plays with farm as children
do with babies, dressing it up to suit hi;
fancy, and quite Indifferent to expense OF
profit. 1t is bis fancy and not his pocket
that he farms for. Such men are not use
less. They employ many hands. They
try great many experiments which work.
ing farmers cannot afford to try. They
show what can be DONE And American
farmers, although they will not initiate,
will do better than that they will take
hints in this thing and that, and by gradual
improvement they will raise their own style
of farming many degrees. Every town
ship ought to have one gentleman farmer
who aims a show what soil can be made
to do. In his case it may not be remuner-
atiye. But, take the country through, the
indirect effect will be very remunerative.-
His very mistakes will be useful. A mis-
take is often more instructive than a sue
cess. But it is not everybody who can af
ford so dear schoolmaster.
But even with pocket full of money
and with a farm as a mere playground, q
rich man may carry on very foolishly. A
careless scheming foreman may waste vast
SUMS of money without producing one use
ful result either to his employer or the com
munity. Indeed, we scarcely know of any
other sponge that will suck, in so short 6
time, So vast quantity of money, as farm
recklessly carried on ! But unlike sponge
no squeezing will give back the precious
contents. Buildings in bad taste and wrong
ly placed : trees planted by the thousand
and dying almost as fast as planted /; thu
grounds drained at great expense so as Il
require draining again in two or three years
costly cattle and sheep bought and ther
neglected 4; experiments begun with grea
outlay, tired of, and given up before hal
completed these and such like things
are follies which have scarcely any com
pensating side.
Although we use the word farming as in
cluding every variety of operation based
opon the soil, yet the word covers occupa
tions more dissimilar than are the occupa
tions of the lawyer and the clergyman, OF
the schoOlmaster and the blacksmith. What
similarity is there in farming for fruit OF
farming for herds What can be more
unlike than grazing farm, for stock or The
dairy, and grain farm, for sale or fatten
ing stock How unlike is the conduct o
great plantation, raising one or two sta
pies, and the farm of score Of acres, o
mixed crops, raised by the owners owl
hand for his own use.
Leaving to the mood of other days som
excellent remarks on these various kinds O
farming. we ayow our own preference, a
mong all kinds and varieties of agriculture
procedure, TO meditAtive and imaginative
farming. Sitting in our barn door, which
booking South, is raised one story above tn,
yard beneath, what do we see? Not th,
Hudson rolled out so wide as to take tn,
name Of HaVerstraw Bay, no. the noun
tains beyond, nor yet the green and round
ed tons OF the near OnDogife hills nor IN