No. 6. 



Immrgraiion. 



189 



a regular account current of liis transac 

 tions, it pave him no trouble to inlbrin nie of 

 tlie result of his mode of proceeding, which 

 is briefly as follows : 



Product of the farm — 

 10 beef cattle, average S30 per head, $300 



-2o hogs, at $12 per licad, 300 

 200 bushels of corn, at 25 cts. per bu., 50 



Product of f^heep, 100 



do. dairy, 200 



do. orchard, 300 



Other and smaller crops, 100 



Ilis hired labour cost him on an 

 average per annum. 



$1,350 

 300 



$1,050 



Thus from 100 acres of land, even in 

 Ohio, this man has been able to lay by, and 

 invest at interest, on an average, ^■^SOO a 

 year, for the last twelve years. He has 

 now some eight or ten thousand dollars at 

 interest, and his home is a home indeed. 

 Who does better on a farm of 1000 acres'? 

 Or who has improved Iiis condition by goina" 

 west, more tlian he has by staying here? Of 

 course like others he has sufiered somewhat 

 from unfavourable seasons, in some of his 

 crops, but his correct system of culture and 

 intelligent management generally obviate 

 every difficulty which springs from this 

 source, and as his crops are always better 

 than his neighbours, the advance in price 

 more than m.akes up the deficiency. His 

 system of saving and making manures, turns 

 everythinsf into the improvement of his soil, 

 weeds, ashes, the offal of his stock, soap- 

 suds, bones, and everything that will tend 

 ^ to enrich it, are carefully saved and properly 

 applied. 



The history of this man is brief, but to 

 the farmer, interesting. He began with the 

 patrimony of good sense, sound health, and 

 industrious habits. Excellent so far. In 

 1830 he had six children and S;3000 in cash. 

 He bought this farm in a state of nature in 

 1830, for which he paid S400. He expended 

 $400 more in clearing his land, in addition 

 to his own labour. He first put up a tempo- 

 rary cabin, in which he moved his family. 

 One thousand dollars he put out at a perma- 

 nent annual interest, and the remaining' one 

 thousand two hundred with the earlier pro- 

 fits of his farm, he appropriated to the erec- 

 tion of his buildings, which were complete 

 in 1834. In the selection of his fruit he 

 sought for the best varieties, which always 

 gave him preference in the market. So ofi 

 his stock. In this he avoided the mania ofl 



high prices, and has made up in judicious 

 crossing and breeding, what others seek at 

 great cost in foreign countries. Everything 

 he does, is done well. Everything ho sends 

 to the market commands the highest price, 

 because it is of the best kind. In his parlor 

 is a well selected library of some 300 vol- 

 umes, and these books are read. He takes 

 one political, one religious, and two agricul- 

 tural papers, and the N. A. Review; refuses 

 all offices; is, with his family, a regular at- 

 tendant at church, and is a pious, upright 

 and conscientious man. He is the peace- 

 maker in his neighbourhood, and the chosen 

 arbiter in all their disputes; he loans his 

 money at six per cent., and will take no 

 more. 



He says he wants no more land for his 

 own use than he can cultivate well — no 

 more stock than he can keep well — more 

 land will increase his taxes; his labour and 

 expenses will be less profitable. — Oliio Cul- 

 tivator. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Immigration. 



To the Editor: 



Dear Sir, — I have occasionally been a 

 reader of your in.structive and entertaining 

 paper ; well does it merit its title, and long 

 may its proprietor be sustained in his use- 

 fulness. I have often thought when perus- 

 ing its pages, what surprise would Penn 

 manifest could he be permitted to revisit his 

 adopted land, obtained by that equitable and 

 ever memorable treaty with the natives of 

 the forest, and see the magic improvements 

 of art on nature's foundation ! Hills have 

 been levelled to plains; forests have been 

 turned into gardens, and Flora reigns de- 

 lighted. The rough paths of former days 

 have been made smooth, and turned into 

 pleasant roads by the devices of Mc Adam; 

 while her beautiful Juniatta and Susque- 

 hanna ai-e continually conveying thousands 

 from the Old World onward to the far West. 

 How pleasant are these reflections, if we 

 trace back the wonderful improvements of 

 even but half a century; but a few years 

 since, in my native home, the land of the 

 pilgrims, I thought that even Pennsylvania 

 was almost the border of civilization and 

 safe settlement. And now, here, almost two 

 thousand miles beyond, am I reading by the 

 cheerful fire of a Western home, the Farm- 

 er's Cabinet, from the City of Brotherly 

 love. 



There is something more needed, Mr. 

 Editor, in your instructive journal, than 

 merely an exclusive sectional history of 

 home farming. Your people are no longer 



