32 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



with the whole list of the products and demands of different States and coun- 

 tries — their uses and prices in our own and in foreign markets — and hew he is to 

 adapt the land, labor, and means at his command, to supply thai which is most 

 likely to pay best. Let him not continue to go round, like a horse in a bark- 

 aaill, following for ever the same rotation, and making for ever, in the same rou- 

 .tine, the same crops, on the same ground — while a little investigation might m- 

 ■«truct him that a change would not only improve his pocket, but improve his 

 land ; for then he would not be for ever extracting from and carrying off the 

 same elements of fertility. Let the grower of grain, with which the market is 

 surfeited, learn, for instance — and we only mention them as instances and at ran- 

 dom, as they occur — let him learn how to cultivate and prepare for market, mad- 

 der, and flax, and teazles — indigo — hemp — turpentine — the oil-bearing seeds and 

 plants — the cultivation of raspberries, blackberries, liquorice, and even the plant- 

 ing and culti'vaiion of oysters. Very good judges, of our acquaintance, believe 

 /that near large cities there is still great opening for the yet more extended culti- 

 vation of fruits ; and one of our best horticulturists is of opinion that the black- 

 J}€rry might be cultivated into a state of very high improvement, productiveness, 

 and profit, for the supply of large towns. Country people at a distance from large 

 cities have no idea of the readiness with which the best of these berries, believed 

 xo be peculiarly wholesome, are sold ; and nobody yet knows how much this fruit 

 is susceptible of being improved by cultivation. Why may not art and culture 

 do for that what they have done for the crab-apple, and for our native Isabella, 

 and Catawba, and other grapes ? Surely it is a much more promising and palat- 

 able subject to begin with than the crab-apple was, or even the coarse raspberry 

 of the woods. 



For grapes the demand is increasing every year ; sales are at double the price 

 and ten times greater amount than they were twelve years ago. 



There is this comfort for the farmer who does turn from growing grain and 

 ■ •meail.o other things ; that then he will derive personal advantage from cheapness 

 of provisions ; because the cheaper the essential elements of subsistence, as meal 

 and bread, the more will consumers indulge in other enjoyments and luxuries. 



But, in looking around for more profitable employment of his industry and his 

 means, let the farmer take especial care, under all circumstances, to make, as far 

 as possible, on his own farm, and in his own family, every article and particle 

 that he can make, without palpable waste of labor, which may fairly be consid- 

 ^ -ered essential to comely appearance, and indispensable to the comfort and con- 

 (r lentment of a reasonable and philosophical mind : and, when farmers have ac- 

 ♦....complished this — lopping from the list of what custom has made them regard as 

 indispensable many things and expenses which are really superfluous — they will 

 he themselves surprised at the small amount to which their cash outlay may be 

 areduced, and that, too, without any approach to a subsistence on German pum- 

 pernickel. Having thus satisfied themselves, by a little perseverance in habits 

 <oi economy, how little ready money expenditure is really necessary lo all reason- 

 jable wants, and how miserable many of us make ourselves by falsely confound- 

 ;ing happiness with " base lucre," the farmer will soon learn, in lieu of an eternal 

 ^2aankering after more money— more money— to cultivate the lore of books and 

 a thirst for more knowledge— a thirst which maybe cheaply gratified, and which 

 3it once delights and ranobles those who cherish it. But Ave must now con- 

 clude with some observations upon the immediate effect of the English new corn- 

 Jaw bill, as regards trade between Great Britain and this country. 



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