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tin; e;iiiie caUMiliUioii.may nlso be coirect for any 

 nildifioiial iiuiiilier. Take for txamiile tin; ciops 

 jireliy uell ascertaijieJ, anrl a|)|ily tliLMu to tlie 

 inaiiitoiiaiire of a liurse. If «c leetl on hay, lie 

 will rat six tons in a year; and an acie of };iio<l 

 grass is lint one ami a half Inns, hence it will take 

 four acres uf gooit land in i;rasslo Ueeponr horse 

 on hay alone; and to l;j:e|) him in gooil trim, the 

 weiuher nnisl he lair while it is a Mialung. Land 

 . good enongh to \ ield qne and a half tons of hay 

 to the acre, will prochu-e fonr hundred hnshels of 

 potatoes, which cost more in plantinff ami liueins 

 tint may. be gathered wixhont peril from the 

 wee.ther. 7^liese jioiatoes will buy hay or corn 

 and hay enough to keep two horses, and making 

 an allowance for the labor, niay, we think be con- 

 sidered fiir more prolilable tlian hay — for the 

 <'.are and labor of half an acre of potatoes can- 

 not b(! eipial to (ijm- acres in hay; and tlien vve 

 nui,V fairly estimate the valiiQ of the three and a 

 half acres of lunil, aud lbs interest on the value 

 in addition. 



One aero in Indian coin will if good, give si.\ty 

 bnshels; and then we have the ((»lder eijual to a 

 fonrili of a ton of hay, aiid two tons of pump- 

 kins. This one acre of corn will.givc; the hoise 

 a Ijushel of meal per week for one year, and we 

 have the five hnndred of fodder, and the pump- 

 kins to, add to it with eight bushels of corn to jiay 

 Jur the grindijig. 



.Tims do we not find that the corn gives ns the 

 advantage of a gain of three acresover die grass ; 

 and the horse will do ns more credit in his ap- 

 pearance besides. 



Farmers caimot of conrse do w ithont h;iy ; bnt 

 1 had thought when I have so often heard that the 

 best crop was a ciop of hay, that it conld.not be 

 c.\aclly so, inasmuch as 1 have generally noticed 

 that those larmers gel along the most thrivingly 

 uhonirn their aHention to the crops, of grain 

 and roots rather than so much hay. Hay. is rather 

 an expensive crop too, all tidngs considered. — 

 Do we not pay I'.ie liigliest wages for baying as 

 we call it.' ajid it takes up much room in our 

 .costly barns. Corn is worked in cloudy weather 

 .as well as fair, takes less loom, and. tho.wage.s rd 

 those who attend to it are not so high, and no 

 season but is dry enough to harvest it in good 

 ■order; and this also may be said of potatoes. — 

 ,Hay has but one \\s<; and one application, and 

 that js to. feed our horses and cattle ; bnt Ihr our 

 Iiidia:vcorn the limperor of grain, it is goo(l for 

 inau, bis poultry, his pigs and his cattle. No food 

 j^erhaps makes so i;oo<l nie;it as this same Indian 

 •corn ; the best of beef, of pork and of potatoes.: 

 and if we woidil iiiake butter in January equal 

 in flavor ami color, lo that of May, let liie cows 

 b:ive a little corn meal each day, and we have it. 



.S'liBSe remarks are tyrown out as a sort of 

 ,geiieml ,triilhs .i^- a\vak<:(i attention and to set my 

 brethren .who pursue, the laudable occnpatlcu-of 

 tilling the ground to thinking, aud to ]>ro!it by 

 result.;. We farmers li.ave no cause but lo be 

 saiisfied with. our relaiive txiuditioii in society. 

 If niir pro.ducc.is.lovv in prii'e, what we wish lo 

 purchase must also fidi! if vve get lei's money, it 

 goes further, and the (;dl of pu-ices d.O!4S ««l.ralch 

 lis v\ilh a, heavy stock on hand, which we have' 

 borrowed money to jitucbase, and when the note 

 becomes <lue to look blue. If wc keep steady 

 and sen.il the results of jojur efforts to tlie.Visitor 

 for the benefit of others we may get thr(«igli the 

 world with our full share cf. the w-oild,s goods, 

 .and cheerful hiijies.. P. 



For the Fiirnier's -Monthly Visitnr. 

 " Buy cheap and se!i riear." 



What right lias ihe merchant to ihe pA'clnsive 

 use of this e.\<:elluut, tli,is ihiifry nia,\im? I should 

 like to be inlbrmed. If v.e could Qnly keep this 

 sicadily in view we might soon bt'couie wealthy, 

 and live from oft' our money, as the phrase goes 

 .over there in t!ie Bay State. One day J hit upon 

 this mono, and it so fastened upon my fancy that 

 .1 determined at once In re,peat it to myself every 

 night on gqiiig lo bed and let it out on opening 

 my eyes in the uioriiiug. Tlfuf I siippa;;ed. would 

 jjoon make it so familiar that it would aluays be 

 ,!it hand and whisper itse!l"in my ear,"' buy cheap 

 and i^ell dear," when I .>ihoiild be driving ;i 

 bargain. For two sncceediu'; days my wi(i; 

 knew nothing of the leaf of g;Hn 1 had picked 

 up. and I deteindiK.'d to make her very hajipy by 

 the surprise wdien she saw ine shell out the sil- 

 ver. For two days she took no iiolico ofil, but 



on retmaiiiig the third evening she said, " my 

 dear, yon must have lalhn in love with that old 

 saw." ISegiiiiiing to he jealous, she was of my 

 (iuicying any thing hut herself. .1 kept my course 

 and said nothing. The next morning when I 

 saw that she hail not yet woke, 1 said, "buy 

 clieaji and sell dear." Shi; opened her blui; eyes 

 upon my face in ania/ement ; and asked me if I 

 was really gelling flighty. "You women," I said, 

 •'know little of the benefits of wise maxims, which 

 arc the results of ages ol experience, which liulil 

 ns steady and safe upon the stormy ocean of life, 

 give ns plenty of ballast to pass the river Styx, 

 and have something left after paying the lerry- 

 nian his fee." " 1 don't want to know any such 

 stiifl'as that," .said she, as she turned over and 

 co/nposed herself to sleep, while I stepped down 

 to kindle ihe fire and hang oil the tea kelllelbr 

 breakfast, determined to put my ma.xim in opera- 

 tion on every opportnnily. 



Inaction is the bane of life; be that casts not 

 his hook shall iievm' take a fish, and he that neg- 

 lects to liiiy a ticket shall never draw a prize. 

 For two days I had held on to my wisdom, but 

 not a single opening liad [iresented itsi.df to begin 

 ill the use of it. 



I was in my barn yard shaking out some fod- 

 der to my cattle the third day, when a .voice fiom 

 ihe road reached ine with the qneslion of "Mr. 

 <lo yon want to buy a horse?" " Buy che;ip and 

 sell dear," said I in an under tone, "now lor the 

 onset." Well, I set ijiy fork against the rack 

 and got over the i'niice and was soon in the road; 

 it was a pretty bay horse enough, bowed bis neck 

 and appeared restive like a nag of mettle. " I ilo 

 not think," said 1, "that I want a horse ; I iim al- 

 ready fully supplied with horses, and miless a 

 man wants, it is dear at any price as Dr. Fraiik- 

 lin used to say." This word dear came in rather 

 in the wrong place, lor my motto, and liJ\ed to 

 haye brought it in question ; but the man ix-plied, 

 "lam willing to sell the cliea|iest horse ever 

 sold in Fraiiceslown : he is only si.x years old 

 this grass, and was sired by the son of the cele- 

 hrated horse Eclipse; the very color, sir, you see 

 he is sorrel." "Then he has lilood in him,' said J, 

 " Warranted," he replied, "the best in America." 

 Here he touched his flank wiili his spurred heel, 

 and. the animal jumped and bore on the bit as 

 lliough he would run like a deer. "Yon have 

 plenty of hay," the man continued, " it will cost 

 nothing to keep him, and I will put liini so clieaj) 

 that in a week or so, von may doulile \ouriiion- 



ey.'; 



This speech so exactly fined my maxim that I 

 asked the man his price. "Ninety dollars," said 

 he, " aud I will give you ii.y iionor that si.\ 

 months ago, I refused two hundred and filly 

 from two or three jiersons who wished to take 

 hi.ii to j'joston, and dispose of him tiir a tiolter." 

 " What, is he quick," said 1, while 1 run in iny 

 heatl^niuety aiid two hundred and fifty is ;i dif- 

 ference of (Hie hundred and sixty to begin ^vith. 

 Tins is profit enough, said I. Nothing is gained 

 ill the long run by being unreasonable, and the 

 best. of jiiaxims, like f.ther good things may be 

 carried too far. My hay, thought 1, is heller in 

 manure ; the liorse will help to <lo that ; and if I 

 make.butoue hnndri'd doil.us, ih.al will do to be- 

 gin with, and so 1 asked the man if be was but 

 si^'i years old. "Do you think 1 would tell you a 

 fdsehood," lie answered ; " no, not for twenty 

 lio.scs, — look here," opening his month as he had 

 (lismouuted : " look at bis leetli— .sec llieir length. 

 Your old horse grinding for so many ye;irs has 

 ihem worn to thegnms; ami if you buy him let 

 me caution you upon his l(;ed. he is so high 

 ^spirited; he has eat nothing hut hay, tiud poor 

 li.iy too, fi)r six mouths; aud see what order he 

 i..; in. Fed on oats, ho will do bis eighleen inifes 

 ill an hour without bre.iking." This cleuclied' 

 the nail of my hesitation. I <w)iii(l not say one 

 word by way of abalDinoiit, and so the niaii wail- 

 ed wdiile I went to the house and emptied .the 

 old.stoi-king. 



" Wli.it are yen about, S;inr.al "'said my wife; 

 ' wdiat are you going to do with money .' leave 

 euongh to shingle the house," s;iid she, " for you 

 know it is uaiiltid had enough ; aud the man is 

 lo I'oiiie next week to begin." 



" Buy.chcap asid selldear," said I, "Deborah, 

 ! mean to clear (nioiigh to shingle tlin house, and 

 buy a carpet t(>.ctbe |;ailour to boot ;" — and out I 

 I went, slocking in baud. When f got. to the 

 road, I saw that Deborah had the window ojien, 



and she bekoned to me, and as I counted out the 

 money the man said that he never felt so bud 

 abojit scdiing any thing before, that he inight as 

 well give him to me, aud but for a <lebt that ho 

 iiiusl jiay that day, he would not look at twice 

 Ihe amount. 



My liiile daughter now came ands.iid, " Moth- 

 er says don't buy the horse iiatil she sees jou." 

 TJie horse was mine — the nian on the way to 

 the tavern with ninety dollars and the saddle, to 

 take the stage llir the Biiy State, and I with a 

 light heart and almost emiily stocking u»ik .my 

 little dangliler by the hand, and went to enjoy 

 my prospects and receive the prai.^cs of my wife. 



Deborah saw the whole ati^iir before 1 entered 

 the room ; the l.orsc turned into the barn yard, 

 and my liitle girl with the empiy-stockiiigiu her 

 hand as wc came up the walk, wiili smuelhing 

 like reproach in lier tone, and a galhering l(;ar.iii 

 her eye. "Samuel," said she, "how. could you 

 pun with all your ready money for a horse, when 

 we do not want one, and do want many things ? 

 I I'-^ally could not have believed it, anil did you 

 not promise me to have the roof , rtiade whole ; 

 the plastering is coining down in the chambers, 

 and every rain keeps me wiping up." "1 Khali 

 more than double my money ; the horse is dirt 

 cheap, Eclipse blood, and trots eighteen miles 

 an hour witli case." " Who told yon so ?" "Why 

 the mail who sold him, "VVhoi.s/ic .'" "A stran- 

 ger from the 15ay stali;, and only sells the horse 

 to keep the slieritf off.' 'I actnidly could cry,"" said 

 Deborah, "it makes me sick ! And what did you 

 give for him ?" " Ninety five dollars, six years 

 old, trots riiihleen miles an hour, and is. blooded." 

 "I lldnk it's lime that yon were bled or something 

 else," said Dc;borah, "for your horse bled the 

 stocking." Look here" said she, as she held up 

 the limber rag. "I am going to double my ino. - 

 ey — ' buy cliea|) and sell deaf,' we shall want 

 both stockings." "Aud who will you sell to .'Peo- 

 ple are not so plenty who go off upon old saus, 

 to use them without , reflection. 1 have bsenTor 

 ten years trying to cure your hasty action. I 

 thought lliat 1 had done so ; you jironiised tne, it 

 was a comfort to spe tin; stoidiinji grow, for -wo 

 sufi'er for llie want <if sxiiiie few tilings, and then 

 yon go and spend the whole (iir a horse." 



I did not (dioose tost;iy longer. What my wife 



d was not at all agreeable, . and her wokIs so 

 to think lait it had been 



J.;''. Ill 



suiriled me, I it3]i 

 easier to buy. 



I went out aud saw my niiL-hbor.lbc. black- 

 smith coming up ihe road, which reminded me 

 that I had promised to pay Ids bill, and this made 

 me feel somew hat uuea.'^y about my empiy stock- 

 ing. He is knowii to he a. judge of a horse, so 

 I bade him good uiorniug aisd aske^l liini lo look 

 at my i-'iirchasc. " So," said hi;, "yon have bought 

 llie horse that came up ilie road just now; the 

 man offered him at m-y shop." " And what did 

 he ask for him?' "Why he nt first said sixty 

 dollars, bill fell to bidf lia.' sum — iiir the horse i.s 

 olil, has a ring bone on his ofi'lii-iid legs, and has 

 been cruelly foundered." i was gl,<d .Deborah 

 was out of hearing. Icoald have idd mvself — 

 "And .so yoi. have bought him?" This upper cud 

 of iiiy.nevv maxliu, brought all the rest, aiid 1 be- 

 go'ii to have my doubts if ii would not gat the 

 other end for(;most beibre I slmnld t'et clear of 

 ihc expeiimenl. "Here is .my biif," said the 

 smith. Ah, the enipiy stocking! I had to ctudess 

 Ihe Irnlli, my money w;is gone, .and I could not 

 pay it. "One bad paymaster iiiak«5 a. number." 

 said the man. I relie.l, and relying, have pi-omi.s- 

 e.d. I began.lo feel worse aud worse. My wife saw 

 how it was. She had laid by a sum of money 

 equal to (he debt for a new-dress. .She.came out 

 and put it in. my. hand ,ind a.-ked my neighlior if 

 all were well at home. I saw tiiat IJ<;liorali 

 would win all llie reputation ot' the day, and mv 

 more than soficiied heart told me that she de- 

 served it. 



Wlien the smith 

 romises, Samiie 



was gone, fI.'O .said, "your 



-- - , - , are iniun.-.', and I had rather 



continue to wear the old gown another year than 

 that he who has earnet! our muney, should come 

 a second lime for it " 



The sloiy got wind, and ilie n.xt Siindav, I 

 could not but notici; that some ofthe most sitible 

 .men of the town were marked in their respecl.'id 

 aiteiitioiis to.my wife. 



As tor the horse, 1 sold him to the laniier for 

 the skin tiini soap grease, upon Deborah's adwte 

 that the quicker 1 got rid of him, the le.ss we 



