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ment does not end here. The man who is constantly raising poor crept 

 seldom takes good «are to keep them secure when gathered, and is most 

 sure to thresh much less than he harvests. His wheat is destroyed by 

 the rats and mice ; his hay, half fenced, is eaten up by his neighbors' 

 or his own unruly cattle; his potatoes are dug up by his swine, perhaps 

 before they are ripe ; and his garden, if any he has, is destroyed by the 

 pesky pig's ; and when the year closes in upon such a man he discovers 

 to his own shame that he has nothing in store for the support of him- 

 self and family during the coming year, but his own strength nearly 

 exhausted. If such a man would only review his steps during the past 

 year, he would learn the reason why his neighbor is so much more pros- 

 perous than he is. He would see that his neighbor plows deep and fine, 

 and in season. That his land is thoroughly dragged and hoed — his 

 fields are well fenced, and all his crops are well taken care of; and that 

 as the result of this care and good husbandry, he has enough to eat, 

 drink, and to wear, laid up in store for the coming year; he would see 

 that his own poverty is not the result of idleness, but of mismanage- 

 ment, of bad husbandry, of doing everything by halves; whilst his 

 neighbor's is crowned with plenty as the legitimate fruits, not of hard 

 labor, but of good management, good husbandry, and of doing every- 

 thing as it should be done, in a workmanlike manner. In other words, 

 he would see why his neighbor is thirfty and he is unthrifty. 



I know a man who came into this County about seventeen years ago 

 with a cash capital and other means to the amount of at least $8,000. 

 For convenience sake I will call his name Unthrifty. He has cleared 

 up what he calls a large farm. The soil is naturally productive — as 

 good as can be found in the county. He commenced his farming oper- 

 ations by the erection of a log house in which he still lives, but which 

 has never been finished, and when it rains, is about as much a covert 

 from the storm as an oak girdling, and he wonders that bis family are 

 always sick. When he chops down the forest to clear up, all the small 

 timber is cut so high he is compelled to drag around the stumps in- 

 stead of over them ; here and there in every direction is left a standing 

 tree or a stub, as a harbor for the birds or a lasting monument of the 

 soil's original productiveness, and here and there scattered all over the 

 fields, are as many brands and old logs still remaining upon the ground 

 as woid<i satisfy any person that because the land of Unthrifty was free. 



