THE FARMERS' REGIStfeR. 



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uoi, want not." It is essential then to good 

 inauitijeniem to Witsie nothing, not even a crust 

 v)!' hiead, lor lliedoix will eat it, or il'lid ha|)|)en 

 ti) lie a i)an)|)erod lavorile, tlie hog will eal it. 

 And iiere 1 can at last reverse my text, and 

 say ill confidence, do as 1 do. IT there be any 

 thing which I do most cordially abominate, it 

 )s that of wanton waste. I can say in truth, 

 thai I waste noihing, not even a weed, lor when 

 jilaced in my great, manure woitishop, my liogs 

 and cattle very suun manulacture it into a va- 

 lual»le article. Above all, our good manager ii^ 

 a great ocunomisi in his use ol tune. lie bi-- 

 lieves, with Dr. ^'rankliu, that '• time is muney," 

 and in his estunation it is a coin of inestimable 

 value. It IS, therelbre, his liabii to rise early, 

 and to get a goud start at his business in the 

 inorniiig, lor this he finds will make his work 

 iight during the wliule day. Not even a rainy 

 day is lost t)y him ; lor now he shells corn and 

 beats homnuny, and thrashes out his jieas, and 

 makes brooms and lootmats, lor which the yood 

 vvil'e will thank liim ; and puts a uew handle to 

 his hoe and axe ; and mends and oils his old 

 liarness, by which they will last twice as long; 

 and does a great many other jobs, which good 

 management will readily diciale. Jt is, there- 

 lore, needless to remark, that you never see ihis 

 man luiiering abcnjt the court house, or the mus- 

 ter Held, ur uiber places of public resort, unless 

 he has business tlure. On the contrary, it i^ 

 his habit to stay ai home and du his duty there, 

 unless business cedls him away. Bui whilst I 

 record my testimony against all waste, I would 

 by no means recommend the contrary extreme. 

 Some people here, in endeavoring to avoid Scyl- 

 ja, lall on Cliarybdis, ami are etjually cerlam oC 

 being engull'ed. Whilst, iherelore, they stu- 

 diously avoid all waste, they practise the siintiug 

 or even starving sysiem at home. This^ ol' all 

 aconomy, I (;un^lll^T the worst. The laci is, that 

 mi man ought to keep ail animal unless he can 

 l<eep it well. It' Ibod is too scarce to leed ilie 

 iiog, the proper remedy is to send him to the 

 butcher, and when you can no longer leed your 

 horse or cow, dwn't turn them out upon the com- 

 mon to starve, liul send them to market. 



Some time ago, in visiting a li'iend and neigh- 

 bor, whom I highly esteem, my attention was 

 called to his hogs. They looked well, (lor my 

 Iriend is a good manager,) but i thouglit ihey 

 would look siill belter, if th«y had a hllle more 

 corn, and ventured to suggesi this to him. Corn 

 is scarce, was his ready reply. That may be, 

 said I, but if you proceed on this plan, meal 

 will be still scarcer. Besides, continued I, the 

 hog when he eais, don't eat lor himself, he eats 

 lov you — he don't waste your corn — be just turns 

 it into meat, and this you know, is a very useful 

 article in your Camily. The idea seemed lo strike 

 him as a new one, and whether it is owing to 

 this little incident or to some other cause, the 

 fact is, that my friend's slock of hogs has since 

 that been celebrated as the finest in all the 

 neighborhood. A little anecdote occurs here, 

 which I beg leave to relate. Cufl'ee came in on 

 a very cold day almost frozen, and that he mitiht 

 enjoy the full comlbrt of the fire, placed himself 

 very near to it. His iriend, Sambo, presently 

 observed his loot smoking. Cutiee, said he, your 

 ibct is burning ! Taint my foot, you tool you — 



j he massa foot. From ihia, some of you may 

 I think Cutfee a fool — but he was very far (i-om 

 it. He went on the same principle that other 

 pliilosophers do, that ihe it"Ao/e includes its yx/r^s, 

 and ihat, therefore, as he was liis master's properly 

 ! so was h\s foot. When, theielbre, I see my ho*' 

 eat, I find no fault with him — he eats for me. 



Again— our good manager is a man of reot/- 

 iiig. And here permit me to remark, tliat we, 

 of the present day, ought lo be far better liirmers 

 tlian our irrandliii hers were, "^riiey had no Uuflin 

 of the Farmers' Register, nor Skinner of ihe 

 American Farmer, nor Buel of the Cultivator, 

 nor J}oilsol the Southern Planter, to tell them 

 of the immense im[)rovemeiils in the farming 

 world. The floods of' liglit, wliicli we now en- 

 joy wer« all darkness lo ihem. I would mn be 

 without my agricultural [)eriodicals lor ten limes 

 their cost. I scarcely ever receive a number, 

 but ( consider it worth more than the price of 

 the whole series. Go then and subscribe for at 

 least one of these works. Take one, and my 

 word for it, in less than six months you will feel 

 that you must have another. The gl-eat bene- 

 fits arising from tlie one, will enable you to pay 

 lor the whole. 



Further, our good manager is a man of ob- 

 yercation. His duties and [lis (ileasure call him 

 lie(|uenily lo his fields, and whilst there, he keeps 

 both eyes wide open, watching the results of the 

 various processes ni which he is engaued ; and 

 there is no variety in manuring, or dtfi'erence in 

 the mode of culture, liut he marks it, and is 

 itNuly to profit, liy an}' t^uperiority which one 

 plan has over another. And, lastly, his reading 

 and observation combined, make him a man of 

 llitiiking. You see, then, the compound which 

 I have endeavored to present — economy, indiis- 

 iiy, reading, observation, reflection ; and when 

 you see all these concentrated in the same indi- 

 vidual, you may set that man down as a gocd 

 manager. 



Von now have, gentlemen, a sketch, and, I 

 confess, a very imperlect one, of what I conceive 

 to be a well managed, a well cultivated farm. 

 But defective as it is, suppose its counterpart 

 could be found in any one case ? Suppose that 

 this scene covered ihe limits of our whole socie- 

 ty? Suppose that all our farms were lastefufly 

 and judiciously divided into their several fields, 

 and that every field was so enriched and so cul- 

 tivated as to produce ail abundant crop? Sup- 

 pose that all our enclosures were neat, and 

 slraiiiht, and substantial'? Suppose that all the 

 buildings, as well for the servant as for the mas- 

 ter, together with the shelters for the brutes, were 

 so constructed and kept in such order as to make 

 all comfortable? Su|)pose that neatness, and 

 industry, and economy, and good order pervaded 

 our whole limits, and that in all these respects, 

 there was a manili^-st improvement from year to 

 year 1 What might we not sav in regard to it 1 

 Might we not exclaim, with the Bible," Happy is 

 that people that is in such a cat^e?" But sup- 

 pose we allow our fancy to take a more extensive 

 flight, and instead of confining this goodly pros- 

 pect to a single county, you allow it to cover the 

 whole of our beloved mother slate; how beauti- 

 ful the eight? how lovely the picture 7 



And may not all this be realized 1 I answer 

 with confidence that it may— and I hereby pledga 



