The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-06-24
Owning AFarm.

Somehow it happens that almost every
man who has been city bred feels at times
strong desire to settle down among the
trees and green fields, from vague and un-
defined belief that the country is the scene
where human life attains its highest deve-
opment. He cherishes hope. though
perhaps faint one, that lie may yet pos
sess country home, whore he may
TRANQUILITY pass his latter years, far away
from city tumults and trials. This hope2is
founded on the instructive desire there is
in human nature to possess some sportion
OF the earth's surface. know that one
looks with indescribable interest at an acre
OF ground which ia his own, / am sure
there is something remarkable about my
trees. have sense of property in every
sunset over my own hills, and there is per-
petnal pleasure in the sight of the glowing
landscape at my own door. j, have found
ten acres enough and know, we'll what
pleasures, interests and compensations are
to be found in the little affAirs Of that limit
ed tract. ~ ha.i hitt afla5' " ibsgo 9"
The windows OF the snug library into
which IEstire in winter, look out. across
the garden on the blank gable of my barn.
When came here it was rough and ,un-
slightly, but now that .homely, gable is
blank no longer. Every inch is clustered
over with climbing roses, honeysuckles,
and variegated ivy, in whose tangled mass
OF vine and foliage the song-birds b1ffdo in
summer, while to the same atinual granaky
the snow-birGs come in ahOeksinto gather
seeds in WINTER Though tcoHldi not as
pre to being gentleman farmer, seeipg
that | came TO make my fortune, not to
spend one, yet ] have sought to make farm
ing sort Of social science, in which hot
only the head and hands could be employ
ed, but the sympathies of the heart enlarg
ed and elevated. 10 short, to establish "a
home for the family. ..i.,to ot boa ,oioI
desire no association with the man Or
boy who would wantonIy kill the birds that
sing so cheerfnlly around our dwellings
and on our farms he Is fitted for treason
and murder Who among us sdoes not,
with the freshness of early mofningy call up
the memory OF the garden of his infancy
and childhood ); the robins nest in the old
cherry tree, and the nest of young ohrping
birds in the currant bush the flowers plant
ed yhis mother, and nurtured by his sister
In all our wanderings the mem6ry Of child
hoods birds and flowers is associated with
that OF mother sister aud our early home.
AS You would have your children .intelh-
gent, virtuous and happy, and their memo
ry, in after-life, of early home a pleasant or
repulsive one, so make your farms and chill
drens home as your business Of life, then
adorn that business throughout 1oi E1aw
If you would inspire your own children
and your neighbors with the onoblenessaOf
your business, then draw about dyou such
an array ofbeauty as no one but the cult
vator of the soil can collect Let every
loot Of your y%S,, farm show the touch of rsaPs-
for convenient and successful cropping, let
it be done with order and neatness loW,hiie
building the fence, let it be beautifulnas
well as substantial While arranging your
vegetable gardens and orchards, do not
overlook geometrical, regularity. Do not,
on any account, omit the planting of flow
ers and the various kinds. Of fruit trees
Ten AcreS Enough ''' 'h'Hi=i'f "oiioi