No. 4. 



Don'' t forget to Lime — Curry your Coirs. 



117 



he wae too late, the great banker was gone 

 to his farm, and he followed afler; on his ar- 

 rival he was kindly and ccuirteously receive'*! ; 

 he was waited on over tlie farm and llirouf,f|i 

 the barn-yard, but not a word could be ex- 

 tracted from Mr. Girard on the subject of iiis 

 mission. He could now think or talk of no- 

 thing but agriculture and rural afiairs. and 

 his triend had to return to the city and loarn 

 to be more punctuaJ to his engagements in 

 future. 



On an occasion, many years since, the city 

 authorities were making an improvement at 

 Market street wliarf, and there was a large 

 quantity of rich earth that had been accumu- 

 lating there for a long series of years, to be 

 removed, and any person was permitted to 

 haul away as much of it as he cha^^e without; 

 charge. It was deemed a good compost or 

 manure, and no person knew better the value 

 of manure than the rich merchant: he soon 

 had his team at work removing it to his farm ; 

 an acqnaintance of his wlio saw him superin- 

 tending his work, remonstrated with him on 

 account of the avidity and indut-try with which 

 he engaged in what his friend thought so 



small a concern ; — Oh, says he, " Mr. , I 



work to-day, if I die to-morrow." S. 



For the Fanners' Cabinet. 



I>ou't forget to Ijinic' 



A short time since a farmer was inquired 

 of why he did'nl use lime as a manure ? His 

 reply was, " I can't afford it." 



VVhat, can't afford to make your fields 

 produce twice as much grain and grass as 

 they have heretofore furnished ; I don't un- 

 derstand that kind of lofjic. 



Well, I don't sec how I could well afford 

 to buy lime ; it costs money, you know. 



Yes, it costs monej', that is true; <nnd what 

 is the use of money but to lay it out in such 

 way as to make it produce more, in the same 

 way that we sow wheat and plant corn, in 

 order that we may get more wheat and corn 

 in return. 



The true plan of using money is to vest it 

 so as to make it as productive as possible; 

 and there is no way that I know of by which 

 a farmer can make his funds increase fister, 

 than by so applying them as to increase the 

 fertility of his farm. 



That wise old farmer, William West, ad- 

 monished his friends and neighbors "tobel 

 kind to the soil ;" well knowing from his own 

 experience tliat tiie result would be pros-i 

 perity; but those w-ho go on skinning andi 

 impoverishing it. are acting the part of the' 

 old woman who killed the goose that laid the I 

 golden egs: ; they soon arrive at that state 

 when they think — 



" They can't afford to lime." ' 



There is a class of people in the world, and 

 I some of them are called farmers, who despise 

 j small things, and therefore thev can never 

 'achieve great ones; they are too proud to 

 ! thrive, and too lazy to grow rich; and be- 

 [ cause they can't do things on a large scale, 

 omit to do them altogether, and these are tlie 

 people — Who can't afford to lime. 



George Ksher, the worthy and successful 

 farmer and horticulturist, who is referred to 

 under the heading of " More fruits of industry 

 and intelligence," in vol. ii. p. .%fj of the 

 Cabinet; humble as was the commencement 

 of his career in life, could always afford to 

 buy manure, because he knew that if he en- 

 riched his soil, it would in turn enrich him, 

 and in this way they have been going on for 

 half a century, conferring reciprocal benefits 

 on each other, and it is now a question not 

 easy to determine which is the richer, George, 

 or his farm, for — 



He never said he conld'nt afford to lime. 



Those who think they can't afford to lime 

 much, should lime a little; make a beginning, 

 tor there is nothing like commercing to do 

 right. A farmer some years since was pre- 

 vailed upon to buy lime enough to dress about 

 ten acres of his ground ; this gave him a start, 

 and the increased produce gained by thi« 

 trial, has induced him to continue it since, 

 and from that time he began to thrive, and 

 now he thinks — 



He can afford to lime. 

 X. 



For the Faniirrs' Cabinet. 



Cnrry your Coivs. 



! The price of butter is such as to offer en- 

 ' couragement to farmers to try the effect of 

 extra keep on their milch cows the coming 

 1 winter ; and in addition to keeping them warm, 

 clean and comfortable, it would be well to try 

 the effect of currying them. Horses and fat- 

 ting cattle are well known to thrive much 

 better where this operation is thoroughly and 

 ; regularly performed, and the celebrated Dr. 

 B. Rush, in a lecture delivered in 1607, upon 

 the duty and advantages of studying tJie dis- 

 eases of domestic animals, and the remedies 

 proper to remove them, states that there is an 

 improvement in the quality of the milk, and 

 an increase of iLs quantity, which are obtained 

 by currying tlio cow. 



I If some of our farmers would make trial of 

 lit as soon as they commence stabling their 

 jCows, find carefully note the result, and make 

 ja communication of it to the editor of the Cab- 

 inet, it would much oblige an 



Old Subscriber, 



No seed will vegetate without the access 

 of air. 



