Year: 1860

Il DuL anSOu Lyman cOuiQ not see Tie use o.
wasting money in that way. He thought the
man who would first cut his tiilage land down
one half, and then go of and buy such guam
tity of manure must be little better than fool.
ish. He was not such fool at all events
During the following winter while Lyman
was cutting and hauling wood to the village
for two dollars and half a cord, poor Poland
was hauling his to the tavern to pay for ma
nure which he had not got yet.


1t was on the first day of April that Po-
land came to his neighbor He wanted to
borrow hundred dollars for six months or a
year, if he could.


What are you going to do with it 2" asked
Lyman.


Il want to make some Improvements in my
barn cellar, and also enlarge the building by
putting on tie-up. thus throwing the cattle
out of my main barn."


Il declare, Poland, it is too bad" said Ly-
man pityingly. "Here have laid up over two
hundred dollars clear cash, aud you are worse
than nothing-in debt. By jingo, 1 do not
want to see you fcoling away money so.-
Your barn is large enough-as large as mine
is with double the land TO empty into it. If l
lend you a hundred dollars what assurance
have l that l will ever see it? l would rath-
er let it go where l know it is safe. l should
not want to sue you, and l might not get it
without. Your farm is as good as mine and
you have no more need OF borrowing than
have--or you should have"
John Poland did not say anything about
the two animals he bought q year and half
before and the calf they had yielded him for
which he had been offered within the week
ursshundred dollars. He owned that amount
Of stock over and above that owned by Ly-
man. He turned the subject of conversation
as soon as possible, for he wanted to hear no
more reasons from his friend for not lending
him the money.


That afternoon he went over to see the man
of whom he had bought this new stock who
readily lent him the money he needed.


What a fool y said Lyman, as he saw the
carpenters at work tearing away one whole
side OF his neighbors barn preparatory TO
adding an apartment capable Of accommoda-
ting forty-Gve head of cattle. However, Po-
land worked on, and tried in vain TO get his
neighbor to listen to his advice


DO not talk to me" cried Lyman, at the
end of the second year. Il have got four
hundred dollars at interest. How much nave
you got 2"


"A thousand or so,' returned the other.


"Eh :? what do you mean ?'


why all the money have laid out on this
pace is on interest"


'Oh, sll, ah, ah. ah-and how much inter
est have You realzed?"


$50 far have let it ali run GA compound
interest right in with the principal, and tlatre
it lies"


Yes. and there it will lie. I don't believe
you can raise fifty dollars now in cash.


You are right. lyman / could not raise
it without selling something which 1 do not
wish at present to part with


II thought SO, but take your own way"


Ere long ADson Lyman was astonishcd 10
find that his neighbor had subscribed for an
other paper besides buying a lot of books for
his children.


"What's the use ?" he said, as he sat in his
neighbor,s room, and saw pile of books on
the shelf. 81 want my children to learn to-
work-not 10 be spending their time over
books. They get schooling enough when our
school is open.'


$50 mean that my children shall learn to
work. returned Poland but that shall not
prevent them from becoming well educated
/ would rather leave them with good charac-
ters, and well educated, than thousand dol
lars each minus the education"


"Oho that is the way you mean to lay up
a thousand dollars-to have it in books and
papers, and new tie-ups, and such like"


you shall see when the time is up


1--WE SHALL" replied Lyman, as he turned
towards home.


Mr.. Lyman had not fully realized how
much corn Poland had received from the land
he had manured so heavily and so carefully
and on the second year he only noticed that
his neighbor had extraordinary good luck"
with his wheat, getting about ninety bushels
from three acres. But he had occasion to
open his eyes the third year.


One evening, just at sundown, Lyman went
over into Polands field, where the men were
finishing raking up the three acre piece where
the grain had been the year before-the first
pice the present owner had plowed up and
dressed.


"Been polling some hay here ?" said Lyman
as he saw the huge punches of hay, nearly as
thick as they could stand.


mo, this was all cut from those three
acres" returned Poland.


Lyman counted the bundles, and then esti-
mated their average, and upon reckoning up
he found that the land had yielded not far
from four tons to the acre. He had just got
in two acres which ne had first dressed upon
the new farm and he had obtained short of
two tons per acre! He knew that Poland
had got ten bushels more of wheat per acre
than he bad done, and also more corn. He
began to think but yet he would not let his
money go for any such "experiments" upon
his place.


The FIVE years came around and Anson Ly-
man went on that day and sold fourteen bush
els of corn in order to get fourteen dollars to
put in with nine hundred and eighty-5ix dol
lars he had at home.


"Well, Poland, I've got the prize" said Ly-
man, entering the farmers barn, in the after
noon. 1t was early spring, just five years
from the day he bought. "Tve got the one
thousand dollars, now what have you got ?"


"Well, have not far from four hundred
dollars


"Aha thought So"


But Arson Lyman" said Poland sternly,
''are your eyes not opened yet ?"


Opened What do you mean?"
well, mean that my farm, to-day, will
sell for one thousand dollars more than yours
will. Look at my hay now. There are near
ly twenty loads of hay you have not ten
And mind You, have five head of cattle more
than you have. Next season / shall cut more
hay from twelve acres, which l have regener-
ated, than you will cut upon your whole for
ty acres and you know that my hay is worth
far more ton than yours is. | told You J
had five more head Of cattle than you had
For these five creatures, l can within six hours
get seven hundred dollars cash. but no such
money can purchase them of me. All, Ly-