12 



GENESEE FARMER. 



3 AS. 1845 



KEEP OUT OF DEBT. 



Let every young man and youth read and remem- 

 ber the following : 



"Of what a hideou.-* progeny of ill is debt the fa- 

 ther ! What lies, what meanness, what invasions of 

 self-respect, what double-dealing ! How in due 

 season it will carve the frank, open-face into wrin- 

 kles — how, like a knife, 'twill stab the honest heart. 

 And then its transformation ! How it has been 

 known to change a goodly face into a mask of brass : 

 the man into a callous trickster ! A freedom from 

 debt, and what nourishing sweetness may be found 

 in water ; what toothsomeness .n a dry crust ; whai 

 ambrosial notuishment in a haid egg. Be sure of it, 

 he who dmes out of debt, though his meal be a bis- 

 cuit and an onion, dines in ' the Appcllo." And 

 then for raiment — what warmth in a thread-bare 

 coat, if the tailor's receipt be in the pocket ; what 

 Tyrian purple in the faded waistcoat, the vest not 

 owed for ; how glossy the well worn hat if it cov- 

 ers not the aching hjad of a debtor ! 



Next, tho home sweets, the out door recreation of 

 a free man. The street door knockers fall not a 

 knell on his heart ; the foot on the stair case, though 

 he live on. the third pair, sends no spasm through his 

 anatcmy ; at the rap at his door, he can crow forth 

 *'come in," and his pulse still beat healthfully, his 

 heart sinks not into his bowels. See him abroad ! — 

 How confidently, yet how pleasantly, he takes the 

 street ; how he returns look for look with any pas- 

 senger ; how he saunters , now meeting an ac- 

 quaintance, he stands and gossips ! But then this 

 man knows no debt — dtbt that casts a drug in the 

 richest wine : that makes the food of the gods un- 

 wholescme, indigestible ; that sp- inkles the banquets 

 of Luculbis with ashes, soot in the soup of an em- 

 peror ; debt, that Ike the moth, makes valupless ims 

 and velvets, enclosing the wearer in a fastening pris- 

 on, (the shirt of Ncssus was a shirt not paid for :) 

 debt, that writes upon frescoed walls the hand writ- 

 ing of the attorney, that puts a voice of terror in the 

 knocker ; and makes the heart quake at the haunted 

 fireside : debt, the invisible demon that W-alks abroad 

 with a man, now quickening his steps, now making 

 him look on all sides like a hunted beast, and bring- 

 ing to his face the ashy hue of death, a'i?^ the uncon- 

 cious passenger looks glancy upon him"! Poverty 

 is a bitter drought, yet may, and sometimes with 

 advantage, bo gulped down. Though the drinker 

 make wry faces, tlicrc may, after all, be a whole- 

 some goodness in the cup. But debt, however cor- 

 teously it be cffbred, is the sup of a syren, and the 

 wine, spiced and deliciors though it be, an eating 

 poison. The man out of debt, though with a flaw 

 in his jerkin, a crack in the shoe leather, and a hole 

 in his bat, is still the son of liberty, free as the sing- 

 ing lark above him ; but the debtor, though clothed 

 in the utmost bravery, what is he but a serf upon a 

 holiday, a slave to be reclaimed at any instant by his 

 owner, the creditor ? 



My son, if poor, see wine in the running spring, 

 let thy mouth water at a last week's roll, think^'a 

 threadbare coat the only wear, and acknowledge a 

 whitewashed garret the fitt'^st housing place for a 

 gentlemnn. Do this and flee debt. "So shall thy 

 heart be at peace and the sheriff be confounded." 



GuAjfo — The first cargo of Guano ever received 

 in this country, arrived in New York in the month 

 of Dec, '44. 



A Coffee Plantation. — A coffee estate is indeed 

 a perfect garden, surpassing in beauty aught that 

 the bleak climate of England can produce. 



Imagine more than three hundred acres of land 

 planted in regular scpiares with evenly pruned shrubs, 

 each containing about eight acre-, intersected by 

 broad alley.j of palms, orange?, mangoes and other 

 beautiful trees ; the interstices between which are 

 planted w"ith lemons, pomegranates, capeje-^samines, 

 tube roses, lilies, and various other gaudy and fra- 

 grant flowers ; Vi'hiie a double strip of guinea grass, 

 or luscious pines skirt the sides, pre;eniing a pretty 

 contrast to the t-mooth red so;l in the centre, scra- 

 pulously kei:.t free from ail verdure. Then the beau- 

 ty of the whole while in flower. That of the Coffee, 

 white and so abundant, that the fields seem covered 

 by flakes of snow ; the fringe like blossoms of the 

 lose apple ; the red of the pomegranate and Mexican 

 rose , the large scarlet flowei>3 of the pinon, which, 

 when in bloom, covering the whole tree with a flam- 

 ing coat, is the lichest of Flora's realm ; the quaint 

 li.io's trumpet-shaped flov/ers painted yellou' and red, 

 and bursting in bunches from the blunt extremeties 

 of each leafless branch ; the young pine apples with 

 blue flowret3 projecting from the centres of their 

 squares ; the white tube roses and double cape jes- 

 samines ; the gaudy yellov/ flag, and a score of other 

 flowers, known to us only hy the sickly tenants of 

 the hot house. 



And when some of the flow^ers have given place 

 to the ripened fruit, and the golden orange, the yel- 

 low mangoe, the lime, the lemon, the luscious cai- 

 mito and sugared zapote ; the mellow alligator pear, 

 the custard apple and the rose apple, giving to the 

 palate the flavor of otto of roses ; when all these 

 hang on the trees in oppressive abundance, and the 

 ground is also covered with the over-ripe, the owner 

 of a cofl^ee estate might safely challenge the world 

 for a fairer garden. Nor must this be thought the 

 appearance it presents for only a short period. The 

 cotFee has successive crops of blossoms, five or six 

 times in the winter and spring, and on the orange, 

 the ripe I'ruit and the young green fruit, are often 

 seen at the same time ; while several of the shrubs 

 and plants bloom nearly all the year. — J\'otes on 

 Cuba. 



The following resolution has been submitted to 

 Congress, by Col. Pratt, of New York : 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Represent- 

 atives of the United States of America, in Congress 

 assembled, That the Secretary of War be allowed 

 to loan such marquees and tents as he may think 

 proper, whenever cflicially requested by any regu- 

 larly organized State Agricultural Society, to pro- 

 mote the convenience of the farnring and mechani- 

 cal community, and the public generally, at the an- 

 nual agricultural fairs an 1 cattle shows in the differ- 

 ent states of the Union — it being distinctly vmler- 

 stood, that such state societies shall be responsible 

 for all loss or damage, ani that the articles be talven 

 and returned salely without any expense to the ge- 

 vernment. 



The Liverpool Agricultural Society has offered a 

 pYcminm of jifti/ pounds to the landlord who shall 

 produce off his estate a full, well-grown, fat and con- 

 tent'"-d agricultural laborer, and whose children are 

 well fed and can read and write. 



Agriculture is the art of raising crops — husband- 

 ry the art of preserving and expending them. 



