Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-09-14
Number 49.

dnn anls includes the labor of the farmer at 2-o DOT month, and all the labor expended Ill Im improvements, maturing, etc
 " Holmes, fam, lS5 acres. Gross recelptS, S6,72O. Paid for labor S650, including labor of the farmer-eoual to be- tween three and four hands.
 | t. D. Gifts farm, 16O acres Cross sales, S6,344; two regular hands, including extra help, paid for labor, $495.
 R. J. Swans farm, 325 acres. Gross sales, $l0,771-paid for labor, 5000
 We cannot forbear giving another in stance originally published in the Valley Farmer, of the farm of Mr Gentry, of Missouri. The instances previously given are on a small scale This is on large scale, and on this account may be more in structive to our large planters. This farm | consists of $500 acres under fence, and mostly in divisions of forty acres; 400 acres in blue grass, 700 in clover and tim othy meadow, 360 in corn, 160 in oats, 20 acres in milet, and the rest in woods pasture There are 30 miles of fence, mostly rails. The farm force consists of twelve grown hands and six boys. Gross receipts from the farm $27 ,000 This re- | turn gives an annual gross income of eight dollars from every acre, including woods 1t gives Sl, 800 to each hand, man ahd boy, and allows about 200 acres to each hand"
 It is difficult for a cultivator of the soil, who has not studied agriculture as pro- fession to understand how farmer can make from thousand to fifteen hundred dollars year from the labor of each hand employed. It is only quite recently that this high skill in rural affairs has been &C., quired in this, or in any other country Before many months, all the clements of this art will be made perfectly plain to every adultreader of this journal But as we wish to make the record ill the Southern Field historical, as well as authentic, we desire to point out the progress attained by few in New York in the last sixteen years, as an encouragement to our Southern friends. All should remember that history IS philosophy teaching by example.
 The five premium farms in New York, referred to by the .Souh Countryman, con- tam HOG acres, including woodland as well as that under improvement; and the aggre- gate annual products sold therefrom amount to 3o,56O. The cost of all the labor ex- | pended thereon ig ES3444. In what way ! do every hundred dollars of farm work ! operate to yield over one thousand dollars | i'll marketable crops, without impoverishing the soil? Improved live stock, kept on rich perennial grasses that grow from year to year without reseeding, blowing. planting, or hoeing, which stock is sold at high l prices, form a prominent feature in the | husoandry of the best managed tarns.- ] Until quite recently a farmer might pur- | chase twenty fine young brood mares for S2,000, anti q superior male of the Morgan stock for Sl,O0O more These breeding annals mould pay for their keeping in l light work on the farm: and ,ubsisting on | pastures in spring, summer and autumn, and cutting their own hay by the use of moving machines, for winter consumption, the labor of man required to superintend /! them i> reduced to mere trihe Yet twen- | ty tine young horses to be sent to market every year, so soon as the first colts become 1 four or five years old, will produce an in- come of some three thousand dollars from this kind of stock alone. The parentace l ot < BlackhaWk' was nothing extraordi- nary, although he brought to his owner from the sale of his blood over forty thousand dollars before he died. Hu6back." the progenitor of the best Short-horns that England has produced, twas chance calf belonging to poor man who grazed his COW on the sides of the highway" Prof Low, of the University of Edinbu-rh. in his admirable treaties on the "Domestics. ted Animals of the British Islands" page 3S2, says " he is generally regarded as tho father of the improved Short ,horns.''- Poor MT. Waistel's street calf lived to make ample fortunes for the brothers Robert anu Charles Colling, and give them an i'm perlShable fame as the most successful i'm provers of neat cattle that the world has ever produced Nr. Jonas Webb has at this time few male sheep that let for over twelve thousand dollars year. His in- come from this source has been increasing for twenty years. He has hired ont q single sheep for twelve hundred dollars season. "Blood' is costly commodity in England; and 1t Is by no means cheap in this country. as will be shown hereafter.
 Some may fail to see the connection be- tween the improvement of live stock and the improvement of farming lands; vet they are almost inseparably blended Good keeping the year round, implies the produc- tion of much rich manure, as well as of superior domestic animals. It implies rich wheat and corn fields, as well as excellent pastures and meadows. It makes both vegetable and animal vitality do their best for the farmer with the minimum of human labor. The skilllul husbandman subdues nature, and makes her his servant, by simply studying and obeying her laws. Nature gives him not two blades of grass where one grew before, as in the days of Cato and Cincinnatus, but tluxuriant herbage on every square yard of thousand acres where only briars, thornS and sedge were seen before
 Southern FGeld and Fireside