The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-06-23
Eastern correspondence.
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NuV, hoNluS luuil ulUlSoil UVIt III illS EnDlfe
State, among the pine clad hills aud babblng
brooks taking notes, he thus ventures to intrude
upon the privacy OF your sanctum, without pre-.
vious notice, hoping to BE- excused for that lib
erty by Offering his mite in forming the matter
composing that valuable little sheet, "yclept the
Journal" (f 1t should be found worthy -
Having come for the purpose of visiting the
"York State Cousins" (os Buckeyes some times
do) aud having been the rounds" seen the
Rhnoceros," &c, &C., we are prepared to stop
and take a second sober thought and look
around about us, to try If possible to become
"impreSsel with what the signs of the times
poItend, and after much deiiberation we come
TO the conclusion that dark days are ahead es.
pecially il we continue to have frosty nights as
we have had for the past two weeks, The corn
bans, cucumbers, aud many of the potatoes are
badly injured through the Mohawk valley aud
accounts from all parts, both north aud south,
in this State, tell the same tale of desoation.
AS they depend great deal upon their vege bles
through this section the loss is great The farmers
wear rather long faces, since the news began to
arrive from the West stating the damage done
as they look 10 the Western States for their
bread, raising but very little to form that staple
here, except little corn Tnd rye. Dairying
and raising hops is the principal business the
hops however, pay rather poorly late years
Like many other kinds of business pursued bv
our fast" people, they have (n common par.
ancel "run the thug into the ground" in poles
especially, we thiuk, at the rate thy pay for
them, ten cents apiece, u: points Oh the Erie
canal. AS they are cedar and brought from
Canada, we suppose they could not be furnished
for much less, aud as it takes 400 to the acre.
(Sll0) 1t is rather expensive starting /" hop
yard; > an | as il costs five cents per pound to
raise them aud having been but about eight or
ten cents per pound the past two years, it is
rather up hill business raising them. They are
great exhausters of the soil, requiring manure
every year to produce good crop. A gentle
man from Massachusetts, passing through this
section a short time since, upon passing hop
yard, remarked that the folks must be very fond
of string beans TO get such large poles for
them
The dairy business pays much better as the
prices are not liuctuating on The products as on
the hops; and the dairy farms look well com
pared to those which do not keep stock They
have been obliged to resort to some system to
bring up their farms, aud the dairy business an
swcrs the purpose, besides pa, ing a neat profit
on the capita invested. Ii Wool county far
mcrs would turn their attention to that business
together with raising stock they would be bet
ter remunerated than at present, under their soil
eXhausling practice OF grain cropping, without
returning anything to the land again.
| There Is great error committed by our Amer
lean farmers, in the West particularly, ia sell.
ins out the resources OF the country in til, shape
of grain, &c, without retaining an cquivolant
which, if persisted in, will virtually ruin the
| country The E,stern States have done the
sam", and now labor under serious diSadvan
tagcs, making it Necessary fer man to possess
more land than he is really entitled to, to keep
up app p'arancrs and support his family We ex
claim ag inst this land monopoly, Mr.. Eltor
and claim that man has no right to any more
land than he can do justice TO, anl if he holds
and controls more than is necessary for The COM
| Portable supply of the wants of his family, we
say h. is overreaching or appropriating more
than is his just du', even ii he does possess the
money to buy it. The financial crisis we have
just passed through, aud from the effects OF which
our country will not recover for wears has main
| ly been brought about through land mononoy
aud specnlation We have seen il represented
that one acre of land would afford a living for
seven p rsons if properly cultivated. and how
| MANY ot our farmers are there but what rave
4" all that joins them" to make living for
a smaller family than seven. Could we but sec
the amount OF nutriment extracted from our
soil, that is rendered use less in reality to the
| country, in the shape of foreign linery, tobacco
manulacture OF spiIituouS liquors. aud what goes
TO pay for our tea AMI coffte, all dispensible il
we were DISPOSE to make them, aud which we
would be better If without; il it could be rem
dered In pounds every year it wouli produce a
statement in figures truly astonishing AMI yet
we pursue this ruinous course from year to year
without returning an eqiivoent, and without
stopping to enquire what the result must be-
There are farms in this country that have the ap-
pcarance having been under cultivation over
century which have not been half that time
cleared from the primeval forest which covered
them Farmers are obliged to apply manures
which from the rolling face Of the country does
but little COOL compaled with the same appca-
tion on the level lands in the Maumee Voliev.
This country appears beautiful with is dan.
cing rills and picturesque hills, dotted with fine
larms and fine houses but for the future, Mo
Editor give me the level lands of the Old
Maumee," which will present to the gazi fine
meadows, fields, pastures and woodlands rich
with improvements long after this country has
seen its greatest day, (Which in reality has
passed), aud will afford an Inheritance to the
posteniy OF the sturdy yeonaury who are nom
Iaboring to develop its resources by ditching.
clearing &C., aud laboring under many d;sad.
vantagts, tn render it what il should be for the
habltation oi man.
We say to them cheer IN take courage, and
II every man do S his duty, brighter days will
yet dawn upon The farmers OF Old Wood, aud
they Will yet reap the fruits of ther toll in the
propagation OF thrifty, intelligent rsce, ready
to compete with any part OF the United States
IN improvements, who will not be ASHAMED To
travel in sny portion of the civilized world and
proclaim their origin and the place of their birth
Yet the country looks hard TO stranger on the
Maumee In some parts, but if we lake into con-
slderaIon the drawbacks it has had, since it's
first settlement II has done wei, OF he peo ple
have Tor III aud is their proviuce to Keep doing
TO snow The East that the Black Swamp aud
MSu!nee are not so bilious as they have for
mery imagined.
We have one more thing to offer. and we
close this episIle, which sa general glance at
our domestic affairs as people. We have had
Signs OF famine, pestlenee aud war" &c, &c,
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