Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-24

dollars month, Which-tS for the money
invested, a very ipdulgent figure. In adj
dition to this, hefnrnishes them all with
pasture grounds for one dollar a month,
additional. He has three of these Gotta
T ges scattered on the outer edge of the
{ north slope ofthe farm, and three on the
south slope. Besides them, he has q beau
1 tiful brick residence, as handsome as most
aEany we see In the city, situated a little
east of his own home; in which lives one
of hisconuections, who is his general man
aeer, and with whom board those employ
ees not married. To all those tenants,
living in cottages, Mr.. Smith pays a doll
lar day, the year round, aud to one or
1.-Two of them who have been with him for
a long time and who have been-very faith
full, he pays more Every night he (when
he is at home) consults and arranges the
business of the succeeding day with his
manager, and either that night orearly next
i morning, the plan of operation is announ--
ced. Very little trouble is experienced in
making out the programme, for the division
of labor is so complete and systematic
that almost, every man is SO well aware of
about what he win be expected to go at,
that he readily understands what is wanted.
Alta very early hour in the 4norning the.
farm is alive with the busy note of prepa7,
ration. for the duties Of the, day. The
teams are being hitched, the COWS MIXED
and fed-the hogs, aud sheep, the cattle,
the colts and the calves are attended to.
This much for what we might call the
personnel of the farm, although we might
appropriately remark upon the sober, in
telligent, Industrious and thrifty appear
ance of the people in Mr.. Smiths employ
ment Mr.. Smith being man of that sort
himself, and having experienced the ad-
vantages of such qualities, very properly
determined that he would have no other
sort of persons in his employ. And be
has no other kind. AS soon as man
ceases to be one of the class named, he is
settled up with, and dispensed with. Yet
never once has Mr.. Smith, since taking this
farm, had to enforce his rule. He picked
his men well at the outset, and never has
had Earring note of discord throughout
his happy family. His people all know
him well, both those employed in town and
country, aud they have learned to respect
him, aud to look up to him as their bene-
factor and well wishers
The farm, itself, we can not hope, as we
would not venture to think of describing
so rs to afford any just idea of what it is,
in space so limited as the remainder of
this already long article. To he appre-
ciated it must he seen and visited from
fence to fence-from barn to barn-from
one of its fine brick and stone cattle and
horse sheds to another-from its hog
yards to its henneries-and from its rich
ly walled garden to its ice ponds. Every
part and parcel of this magnificent farm
is subject enough for an article. The
plan and build of even the ice house
would afford information enough to justify
visit, to say nothing of the beautiful
conservatory for flowers, and the many
other outbuildings centering around this
attractive home. Some faint idea may be
had of the grand scale on which these
improvements have been and are being car
ried on aud perfected, when we say that
up to this time, exclusive of the purchase
money, Mr.. Smith has expended forty six
thousand dollars, making his farm stand
him thus far sum total of seventy-six
thousand. Money has been no object
with him, although even as it is, he
realizes profit of six per cent on bis in
vestment, from his farm products, stock,
&C., and says that he has hardly tried to
make it remunerative. He has purchased
the finest stock, and has reared them in a
true amateur way. He has now on hand
a large offspring from the original stock
which he bought, and is at this time get
ting up catalogues and classifications of
them, giving their pedigrees, &C., prepara-
tory to large trade sale which he expects
to hold in April or May, and to which he
expects amateurs and dealers from all
parts of the country. From these cata-
| logues we may extract some such items AS
strike US as likely to be of interest to our
readers, on another occasion.
Mr.. Smiths pride has been in the ar
rangement of his farm to restore condi-
ton of things by which he was surrounded
in his boyhood-in England. He has as
deep traditionary feeling as any man we
ever saw. In his talk about his boyhood
home in tho rich county of Lincolnshire,
he called to our mind Macaulay's descrip-
ton of the fancies and resolutions of War
rem Hastings, when he went out to India to
make fortune whcrewith to redeem the
estate of his ancestors. Mr.. Smiths fa.
theirs homestead was called waddington,
and he has similarly named his own place,