GENTLEMAN FARMING THE OTHER SIDE. 



2286 bushels wheat, producing . 



Uuano, 11 tons 



Seed wheat, 160 bushels, at $1 85 



" 10 " at 2 



Ploughing 95 days with three mules, at $3 per day 

 Harrowing 30 days, at $3 

 Seeding, ditching, picking off stones, and grubbing 



$2,920 41 

 60 tons of straw, at $10 per ton, is equal to harvesting, threshing, and hauling the whole 

 crop. 



The above system of cultivation is arranged for land which requires to be 

 cleansed and brought up in fertility, and being the homestead of a family ; in 

 fact, what the English call a carse farm. The 100 acres set aside for orchards, 

 truck patches, paddock, pasture lots, &c., may produce, in fruit sales, a large 

 revenue, say from 1,500 to 2,000 dollars, when the access to market is easy. This 

 is a result which entirely depends on the personal attention of the proprietor. 



On this farm a large family is also supported in elegance and luxury, M'ith 

 horses, &c., in ample abundance for all. The example is one which we deem it 

 useful to exhibit to our readers, and, in doing so, we might enter upon a contrast 

 of the independence, the good, cheerful iciiolesomeness, in all senses, of such a life 

 of active usefulness, and the hum-drum routine of the plodding merchant, the mere 

 distributor of cotton bales, or manufactured fabrics;* The one is a man, with 

 open hand and open heart, careering over his own acres, in health and hearty en- 

 joyment, and with a distinct individuality ; the other, often a man also, but man 

 in confinement, and deprived of fresh air, fresh thoughts, and that intercourse with 

 nature which is his birthright, and without which, it seems to us, he too frequently 

 dwindles away till there is little left of him. Where so well as in the country, 

 can we find the pursuit of tastes which result in making "a little world of the family 

 home, where truthfulness, beauty, and order, have the largest dominion." 



What is the reason of the difference between the smile with which the mere 

 dealer in money or in cotton meets his family, and the genial air of the farmer or 

 horticulturist among his home circle ? The money or cotton dealer's topic, on 

 which his mind most dwells, is not a congenial one with his wife and children, 

 while the pursuits of the cultivator and improver are interesting to all ; they can 

 all participate in what is going on, feel a sympathy in progress, and enjoy the 

 products of labor done under their own eye. The relish is, somehow or other, a 

 very different affair. 



We would exhort the young to cultivate those pursuits which will be no incum- 

 brance under the pressure of business, or of adverse circumstances, but which will 

 constitute the highest ornament of their prosperous days, and the most delightful 

 companions of their leisure. Among such pursuits, we should undoubtedly place 

 agriculture and horticulture as the first, as a resource in age and prosperity, no less 

 than in adversity ; when such knowledge may be turned to profitable account, they 

 have no rivals. 



In a future article, descriptive of " Country Places" around Baltimore, we shall 

 give an account of the horticultural improvements of this beautiful place, which 

 contains one of the best collections of evergreens, ornamental shrubbery, and ex- 

 tensive dressed walks within our knowledge. 



* " When Croesus, in Herodotus, suggested to Cyrus the means of making his Lydian 

 subjects harmless for warlike purposes, he advised him to teach them to sing, and to dance, 

 open retail shops, as the surest of all methods for destroying their pristine manliness." 

 ckwood^s Magazine, April, 1856. 



