The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-05-15
From the Southern Cultivator.]
WHAT AN OLD MAN WOULD DO If HE WERE
NOW VOTING. E2E

WHAT AN OLD MAN WOULD DO LII he WE'VE
E.ia NOW YOUNG. CT
He would marry clever, respectable,
good-looking, intelligent, healthy, well
connected young woman, and love her
and serve her with the utmost fidelity,
as long as his life should continue her
to him as wife. If any fool does not I'M
derstand the sense and duty and plea
sure of this upon the naked suggestion,
he would not understand the argument
in support of it, and / therefor prefer
nit it.
He would try, in an humble, modest
way, to do the will of God; and in his
relations to all men, lovingly to "work
righteousness"
He would, by some honest means
for cash or on edit-by purchase, gift,
OF inheritance, own "tract" OF land
in middle Georgia, or three quarter sec
tions in Alabama-not less than two
hundred acres, nor more than two hun
bred and forty.
Here he would fix his earthly home for
the whole term of his natural life, and
having plain, substantial houses, and
commodious out-houses and shelters,
with one hundred and fifty acres Of open
land, besides orchards, garden patches,
lots, &c. he would begin to cultivate
his farm.
This farm he would divide into three
equal fields, of fifty acres each, and en-
ploy eight hands, and give them four
good mules, and yoke of oxen to cul-
tivate it with.
He would plant one thousand walnut
trees. Twenty or thirty years hence,
their Weld of nuts and timber, would
be worth large sum.
He would plant five acres in fig trees,
and learn how to dry, preserve and pack
the figs into boxes for market. After
few years the proceeds would be a
profit of a thousand dollars annually.
[ Fortunes will yet be made in the pre-
paration of fig preserves and pickles at
the South, for Northern market
So. Cuh)
He would plant five acres in Scupper-
nong Grape Vines. In a few years the
wine would be worth several thousand
dollars annually.
He would plant five acres in Sugar
Cane, and manufacture his own syrup
and molasses, and little surplus.
He would cultivate five acres of cab
bages, with the pillow, and use them in
making Stops for the mich cows, and to
tatten hogs. With plenty of turnips,
sweet potatoes, (none are half equal to
the yam, and hay, would always Sc
cure milk and butter in abundance.
He would level his land-gather all
the loose rocks to the low places where
tue soil would wash out of his fields,
and if rock was at hand, would make
rock fences at those places, so that no
soil should escape, and no rain water
either. He would cut his bitches on
perfect level, draw the dirt on the upper
side, fill up low places, use the bitches
for guide rows, and to protect bottoms
from inundation, and he would manure
the hill-tops.
He would manufacture ten tons OF
compost, at cost Of not more than one
of guano, or any popular superphos-
plate, possessing in value of the single
ton of commercial manure.
He would read the Bible, pray and
play with his children-comfort and en-
courage his wife-be just and liberal to
his laborers- avoid political prejudices,
and the bitterness of party strife, and
as to the corrupting, demoralizing dia-
bolism of religious sectarianism, he
would forget that human nature is Ca
pable oft.
lie would do well to respond to the
smile of God, and make his country
garden-a home-a temple-a tower of
strength!
OF beauty and of guidance too, star!
May ages contemplate my native land!
While tempests shake the warning world ajar,
God shelter her, beneath His mighty hand
The maiden flowers, within her wales,
Bloom safely, far from where rude war prevails
WARWICK.