Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-01-17
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JANUARY.

Y EEOm me AuoJic&h ABklceAkuklsLs
4 JANUARY.
g 'Tis then the time from boarding cribs to fee,
The OK lsberious, and the noble steed;
1Tis then the time to tend the bleating fold,
To strew with litter, and to fence from cold
The cattle fed, the fuel piled within,
At setting day the blissfui hours begin;
\ Tis then, sole owner Of his little cot, =
The farmer feels his Independent lot;
Hears with the cracking blaze that lights tn
+ wall,
The voice Of gladuass and of nature call;
Beholds his children play, their mother snile
And tastes with them the fruit Of Summer,
4 toll" HuxrnaEys.
The new year will, We trust, open no
fso badly, as some anticipated. Their,
has, Indeed, been calamity anong ner1
chants, some failures, and great taking
in of sail all around, some distress ano
short work among manufacturers in the
early part of the year, but good pros
poets at the close. We shall always b.
a trading people, doubtless, but hence.
forth, we are to make more of our own
goods. The debt being incurred by tbs
war indicates q high tariff for many
years to come. Almost everything
raised upon the farm has ruled lower,
but the demand has been steady, and
the pay fair, especially for grain. I'm.
mense quantities of European gold have
come into the country-more, probably
than ever flowed hither in a single year
before, and it is now lining the farmers
pocket. He has the metal in his purse
and with many it is entirely new sen.
sation. The farmer was never more en-
couraged in his work. Manufacturers
will be brisk supplying the hungry mar
ket, when the war is over, and that will
make brisk demand for all the farmer :
crops near home. The world must have
breadstufs,. fruits, beef, pork, cheese,
and butter, and while grass grows and
water runs, farmers can raise them.
Farmer Hardy is meditating upon
these things, as he sits by his Winter
fire, after the days work is done. You
see the blaze of his hickory wood, the
lamp upon his table, the pile of agricul-
tural books and papers, the pen and ink :
stand, and the cat purring aud doing
at his feet Like a sensible man, he
does not keep dogs--does not believe in
them-but believes in sheep. You see
he looks amazingly comfortable, though
snow storm is raging without. What
does he care. He is PLANNING THE
CAMPAIGN for next season. You see
farmer Hardy is middle aged man, and
has good deal of experience in culti-
waiting the soil. He has great many
proverbs at his tongues end, and you
cannot talk with him Eve minutes with
out hearing some of these pithy sayings.
One of these is, stake time ly the fore
lock-" He is doing that now, and ma
king all his arrangements for the whole
year. He has learned that be can raise
better crops, and make money faster, By
laying out his work beforehand He
finds that his brain work by lamp light
pays we'll in connection with the work
of the muscles in the corn field. or in
the meadow. He has map of his farm,
with every fence, gateway, pond hole,
muck swamp, orchard, and woodland
laid down. He knows the enemies he
has to contend with--rocks, water,
brush, weeds, vermin, and how to mar
shall his forces, So as to overcome them
He is getting his guns and ammunition
ready, and drilling his forces for the
great struggle next Spring and Summer.
This planning decides between profit
and loss, defeat and victory, in the years
operations.
He has no fields that are growing
poorer, and running out. He enlarges
his plans little every year, and finds
that the soil honors all drafts that he
makes upon it. Another of his pithy
sayings is, ''nsore manure" and you will
find he has planned to make seven hun
dred loads this year. He wants FIVE
hundred for his hoed crops, and two
hundred to spread upon his grass land
in the Fall and Winter He will make
one hundred in the sty, two hundred in
compost heaps out where he is to plant
corn, and four hundred in his barn cellar
and yard. This involves the carting of
good deal of muck and pet, of which
he has always on hand large quantity,
dug year before. When the ground is
frozen. and the wheeling is good, bis
teams are all busy with the carting.--
When it rains or SHOWS he has always
work on ha nd in the barn cellar, or un-
der the sheds, spreading muck and ma
king compost. He hires his laborers
by the year, so that they are never out
of job, and have no time to learn bad
habits at the store or tavern. There is
no difficulty with him in planning profit
able work all the whils.
He has been increasing the quantity
of manure to the acre for several years,
and finds he has not reached the limit
of profit at fifty loads to the acre. He
began with twenty loads, and finds that
his corn costs less per bushel with fifty
loads, than with twenty. Having FIVE
hundred loads of manure for plowed
land, be will plant only ten acres to
corn, but will get about eighty bushels
to the acre.
Farmer Hardy has walked mp to the
value of roots, the last two years, and
he has laid out two acres for field beets
and carrots. Cattle do much better upon
a variety of food, and few roots every
day give relish to everything else, and
help digestion He will tell you "the
proof Of the pudding is in the eating"
and point to his cattle as standing argu-
ments in favor of root culture. Tell
him that roots are nothing but water"
and he will answer you, "they are beef,