The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-02

ible heather. who are this minute
standing OH their heads eight thou
sand miles beneath us, and lo,ooo
miles beneath our contempt, ono
they pay Us back that coin with
interest. and You see they have
reason those pig eyed, pole
climbing, tub-spinnlng japanese,
and those pig-tailed, rat-eatlns
Cinnamon. whom some OF US dem
ocrats are not even willing 10 have
come over here to do II dirty
work for US, at four dollars per
month-even they are our masters
and superiors in agriculture. am
not failing at all. The facts are
so. and | invite YOU to verify them
at your leisure. l should not like
to acknowledge that III China.
Where is Boosting then: 1t is ex-
Guided. These things ought to
make a North Carolinlan blush
clear down into his boots. And
our friends from over the border,
both ways, may laudably and whole
somely try an experiment IN that
same direction.
But thus far we have only con-
sidered the subject comparatively,
"letting our observation, with eX-
tensive view, survey mankind from
China to Peru" and we do not
find that aspect of it lovely. Let
ms look at If in its intrinsicalitv. |
wish l could photograph and hang
up before you here an average spe-
clmen of some hundreds of farms
which have passed under my OBJ
seryation during the last few weeks
in Davidson, Wilkes. Rocking
ham, Surry, Wake, Harnett-every
where you may find them. But
let us 60 out (you will not have far
to go) and take a birds eye view OF
one of them, as from a balloon, or
the window of a rail-car. You see
the house over there on the slope
of the hill, "standing" like "the
abomination of desolation," "where
it oughtnot" with single grand old
spreading oak, Ito show what a no
bic grove there might have been,)
but unfortunately on the wrong side
of the house, evidently an accident,
Inadvertently left by the needless
woodman who did not mean to
"spare that tree - pallngs half
decayed and broken away, gate
hingeless and latchless, held up by
an old hoop hou~e sway-backed,
like an old mill horse chimneys
of the composite order of architec-
ture, like that Of Paul's foolish
builder, "wood, hay, stubble,"
with stones and mud, one of them
leaning atfectionately against the
gable, the other leaning off, as if
taking a reluctant farewell of the
roof 1--WE will not 60 in, being I'M
invited you cal recall the inside,
you have been there many a time J
the stable, a few rods further up
the hill, to the southwest, i. e., to
windward, for the sake Of the
odors 40 shutters to the doors,
stock barred in with long poles,
and, (and, If you happen here in
winter, both the stable and lot a
mire, of mud and manure, lying
about in soggy heaps, like that
which CULVER tried to jump over
and couldn't, and a dark brown
rill trickling off, down towards the
spring, probably, = certainly to-
wards the sea, which it will reach
IN due time /; the pious farmer thus
casting his bread upon the waters
and in a sense not contemplated by
the wise man, however, but with
the certainty that it will be "many
days before it returns" (unless
he goes down to Wilmington or
Newbern to eat oysters The farm
is enclosed by a meandering line Of
thichet-sassafras, briars, vines,
&c.,-nature abhors a stright line
as we'll as a vacuum, they tell us,
and SO does our farmer, and there
fore he adopts the line Of beauty
for his fence row, which wriggles
in and wriggles out" like that ia
nous snake we read about this
hedgerow serving the double pur-
pose of keeping together the frag-
ments OF decayed rails, and Of con.
cealing the real condition of the
ancestral fence from pragmatical
cows and pigs; and you e also
several subdlvisionary ornamental
hedgerows along the branches, con-
sisting of large trees, with elder,
swamp dogwood, sycamore, briars,
&c. But what does this farm pro-
duce? You can see for yourself.
even at this enchanting distance
firstly, gullles and broomsedge,
waving IN the autumn wind, flaca
ceres secondarily, nubbins and
ro-rofrac Tharn ncaI RI ha ~ -