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to planting. Instead of adding field to field, his plan had been to make one acre 

 <lo the prrxlucing of five of the ordinary planters that 1 had met with He had 

 straw-cmters, corn-shellers, plows, harrows, &c ol the newest and most ap- 

 proved kind ; raised everything that he consumed, as far as the production could 



^B°ut^'T"haU weary vou. When I returned to this city, I noticed, z.\. Head's, 

 vour valuable periodic'al, to which I subscribed, and I send it to my Georgia 

 friend every spring and fall, by his most contiguous merchant. He is, however, 

 i-norant of the donor. I atii now on the second volume, and he, no doubt, 

 inakes admirable use of the many facilities it oflers. He is a model plan er, 

 and it is to be recretted that he has so few associates. If his system was tim- 

 versal at the South, we should be the richest and most happy people on the 

 globe. But while our planters co on adding lield to held, paying no attention to 

 die imi)rovement of their soil, I see nothing to prevent the bouth, m a few more 

 years, becoming a waste, howling wilderness^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ 



tW It would appear that nothing can sufficiently impress upon farmers the impoitanco 

 of the system pumied by the farmer here alluded to; whereas one would suppose that the 

 obvious sav-ing in the item of labor alone, between cultivating one acre and cultivatmg tliree 

 to reap the same product, would of itself be sufficient to make any man of common sense as 

 reluctant to waste, or, which is the same tiling, fail to collect manure, as he would be to puU 

 out of his pocket and throw away the worth of it in money I \_Ed. Farm. Lib. 



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GROUNDS, TREES AND FLOWERS. 



Not as a model to be rashly imitated by those who are, nor to excite the envy 

 of those who are not, able to build such magnificent establishments as the Ros- 

 WELL House, at Paterson, N. J., have we presented a view of it ; but to show, as 

 poor ill-fated Sam Patch used to say, that in our country, too, " some things 

 can be done as well as other some" ! 



True, it is written that man shall make his bread by the sweat of his brow ; 

 but, as we opine, society would make slow progress in civilization, if it were re- 

 quisite that every mother's son of us should be eternally at the laboring oar. Of 

 all men, in whatever condition, none is to be more contemned, perhaps we should 

 rather say pitied, than your constitutionally idle man ! Avith no disposition, or, it 

 may be, necessity, for physical exertion, and with a mind too rude, or too barren, 

 for any sort of cultivation or enjoyment. Still, we are no admirers of, neither 

 can we join company with any one in traveling back to that state of uncivilized 

 existence, wherein every living creature is compelled to hunt, to fish, to milk 

 the cow or the kid, or to starve. We are rather of the opinion with the 

 author of the " Vestiges of Creation," who thinks it necessary for civilization 

 that a portion of the community should be placed above hard and engross- 

 ing toils. Man's mind is subdued, says he, like the dyer's hand, to that it 

 works in. In rude and difficult circumstances, we unavoidably become rude, 

 because then only the inferior and harsher faculties of our nature are called into 

 exercise. When, on the contrary, there is leisure and abundance, the self-seek- 

 ing and self-preserving instincts are allowed to rest, the gentler and more gener- 

 ous sentiments are evoked, and man becomes that courteous and chivalric being 

 which he is found to be, among the upper classes of almost all civilized coun- 



