Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-02-24
'0tbe gfsanton Winomatot
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

4 Coop FARMING IN A NUTSHELL.
J. far famed Blackwell of Dshley, Leicester
= England, the founder of the Leicester sheep,
: and the man who lived century before his
days, used to tell an auecdotc with exceed
ing high glee ola farmer of the olden school
c and golden times This farmer, who owned
and occupied enc thousand acres of clay
land, but poor in point Of money, and three
daughters looking their father very hard in
; the face for money He went to Blackwell
to know what to do for them Blackwell
told him to keep his money and give each
daughter some land, and make it known
that he would do so, and he would very
soon lessen his family at home r-
He then made it known that he would
give his eldest daughter two hundred aud
fifty acres of land It need hardly, be add
ed that the lady had forthwith plenty of
bsaux to choose from the fathers house
was haunted with young men, and she so-r
was married, and the father gave her the
portion he lad promised, but no money =
and he found by little more spee,l aud ;er-
ter mana4c cement the produce of his farm in
creased Three years after ho made it
known that ,.e would give his second
daughter two hundred and fifty acre, of
and, which drew shoals of beauX, and she
soon got married, and her f,ler gave her
her portion. H-ll Fid' 1sas
He then SET at work, aud Logan to grub
his furze and fern, and plowei up some Of
his poor furze land-naJ, and where the
furzc covered in some cases nearly half the
land. After giving half of his land away
to two of his daughters, he found the pro.
duce of his farm increased, because his new
ly broken up lands brought him excessive
crops, At the same time he farmed the
whole Of his farm better, for lie employed four
times the labor upon it !; had no more dead
falows the third year instead of which
he grew two green crops in one year, and
ate them upon the land.
- A garden, Blackwell told him, never re-
| quired a dead fallow He no more folded
from poor grass close to better the condi-
tioa of poor ploughed one.' But the great
advantage was that he got the same money
to manage FIVE hundred acres as he had to
manage one thousand acres Three years
! after the second marriage lienlade it known
that he would give his third and last
daughter two hundred and fifty acres of
land. She soon had beau in readiness.
and three or four more within call and she
was married within week She t ought
it never too soon to do well, and the father
portiened her off with land. $50
He thea began to ask himself few ques-
| tons, how he was to make as much off two
huadred and fifty acres Of land as he had
done off one thousand acres He found ne
cessity the mother Of invention He then
paid off the bailiff, who weighed twenty
stone he found that he had been helping
the men to manage the master, instead Of
! helping tAe master to manage the men,
! He then rose with the lark in the long DAYS
and went to bed with the lamb. He got
much more work done for his money, for,
instead of saying to the men, SEQ and do
it," he said come, my boys, let us 90 and
| do it, -ft
| He found a great difference between
''eome' and go" He made his servants,
laborers and horses move faser-he broke
them from their snail's pace; he found the
eyeof the master quickened the pace of the
servant He g'ubbed up every bit of furze
on the farm, and converted great deal of
corn into meal. He preserved the black
water, the essence of the manure, and con-
veyed it upon the land. He cut down all
of his high hedges, Strengthened his zg-zag
fences, cut his serpentine water. course
straight and gained much land by so doing;
made dams and sluices, and irrigated all the
land he could.
Some of his hedges and borders were
covered with bushes from ten to fourteen
yards in width, and some of his closes were
no wider than streets and then he grubbed
up the hedges and bolders, and threw sew
eral little closes into one He found that
instead of growing white thorn hedges and
haws, to feed foreign migratory birds in
Winter, he ought to grow food for man.
II sold him long horned bulls" said
Blackwell, and told him the value of labor,
and what ought to be performed by a Ger
tain number of men, worked oxen or horses
within given time. | taught him how to
sow less, and pillow deeper and better, and
that there were limits aud measures to all
things but above all the husbandman
ought to be stronger than the farm.
taught him how to make hot land colder,
and cold land hotter, light land stiff. and
stiff land lighter. | advised him to breed
no inferior cattle or horses, but the best of
every kind, as the best consumed 20 more
food than the worst. Size has nothing to
to with profit, It. is not what an animal
makes so much, as what it costs making
The farmer became rich man in his old
age, and died rich by adopting Bakewel's
improved management. sila.i.s. a.,. &,
| CEMENT FOR Cu1NA.- To quarter of an
ounce of gum mastic, add as much spirits Of
wine as will dissolve it, Soak quarter of
all ounce of isinglass in water till it is quite
soft; then dissolve it in rum or brandy till
of the consistence of glue To this add one
draohm of gum ammoniac, well rubbed and
mixed. Put now the two mixtures together
in vessel over a gentle heat till properly
united, and the cement is reedy for use. 1t
should he kept in a phlal, well corked. and
when about to be used to be set in boiling
water to soften. fT'
SHORT PASTE FOR FRUIT TARrs -Put a
pound OF -four upon your pastry slab, with
six ounces of butter, and rub them we'll to-
gether with your hands, then make hole
in the center, in which put two ounces of
powdered sugar, two whole eggs. and rath
er more than e-glassful of water: mix
the eggs, water and butter we'll together,