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advantage decidedly in favor of the Swedish tur- 

 nips. 1. The mangel-wurtzel and potatoes occu- 

 py the ground the entire season ; the ruta baga 

 does not, but may be grown upon a clover lay, af- 

 ter the grass has been cut. 2. The mangel-wurt- 

 zel, being sown in the spring, Avhen vegetation is 

 tardy, does not germinate with the certainty, or 

 grow with the same vigor that ruta baga does wlien 

 sown at midsummer; and consequently it requires 

 much more labor in hand weeding, and is liable to 

 more vacancies in the drills, than the turnip : and 

 compared with the potato, the turnip is gathered 

 "with a fourth of the expense of the potato. Hence 

 the turnip has the advantage of gaining a crop 

 from the soil, and saving, in my opinion, one hall 

 the expense of cultivation. The tops are as abun- 

 dant and as nutritious as those of the mangel-wurt- 

 zel, and the roots may be kept as late as either 

 in the spring. The ruta baga has been consider- 

 ed inferior in product in Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey, to mangel-wurtzel; but this I ascribe to 

 climate. Here it is, however, a certain and abun- 

 dant crop, on soils adapted to its culture, and with 

 proper management. — [Gen. Far. B. 



Yankee Manag^cnieiit. 



From the Portland Advertiser. 



Our southern brethren are perplexed to know 

 how it is, that they, with rich land, a warm sun, 

 and staple productions giving an income of from 

 four to twenty per cent., are becoming poor and 

 cashless, while we Yankees are becoming rich, 

 and are having money, if not in abundance, at 

 least as much as is necessary. If they would come 

 among us, and study our economy, the aiiswer 

 would soon strike them. One little instance is no 

 bad example of that Yankee economy and skill 

 that turns all things, even the worst to advantage. 



It may not be generally known that in many 

 parts of our state, our schoolmasters are not only 

 'boarded round,' so as to save the drawing of the 

 pay of the schoolmaster's board fi'om the school 

 fund — that is, the schoolmaster is boarded a week 

 here, and three days there, according to the num- 

 ber of children — but that the schoolmaster is of- 

 ten 'bid off' or 'put up at auction,' as are our pau- 

 pers — and the lowest bidder in the district takes 

 him, as the highest bidder takes an article at a re- 

 gular auction. 



The writer of this article, when preparing to be 

 a college boy, being short of funds, and with no 

 other means of getting money than by keeping 

 school, hired out as schoolmaster for ten dollars a 

 month. This was all the school district could af- 

 ford to give, as their fund was small ; and even 

 with this small sum given, it was necessary to 

 board the schoolmaster as cheap as possible. The 

 school committee, therefore called the district to- 

 gether into a new, neat, convenient and comforta- 

 ble school-house, and in his presence, a scene of 

 this sort took place. 



Jluctioneer. — 'What will you take him for.? ' 



\st Bidder. — 'One dollar and twenty five cents 

 a week.' 



.Auctioneer. — 'One dollar twenty five, one dol- 

 lar twenty five.' 



M. Bidder. — 'One dollar twelve cents and a half 



3d Bidder.— 'One dollar.' 



Auctioneer. — 'One dollar, who'll take him for 

 less than one dollar.? One dollar, one dollar, any 

 body less.? — Who speaks.?' 



Ath Bidder. — 'Seventy five cents.' 



5th Bidder. — 'Seventy cents.' 



And thus the bids went on, the auctioneer ex- 

 clamiing as usual in the mean time, till the school- 

 master was bid off at forty cents per week ! Yes, 

 the lov/est bidder took him on board for forty cents 

 per week. On going home with this bidder, a 

 sociable, happy man, whose house had more com- 

 forts and luxuries than nine-tenths of the houses 

 of the rich planters in the interior of the southern 

 country, and whose table was as good as many sit 

 down at, paying fourteen dollars a week for board, 

 the writer held the following dialogue: 



• How on earth can you afford to board me for 

 forty cents a weekr' 



j^ns. — 'I make money by it, and have your 

 company in the bargain.' 



'How so.?' 



'Why, you will board with me fourteen weeks. 

 The whole pay for board will be %5 60. My tax- 

 es are a little over six dollars. Now, I have 

 bread enough, moat enough, poultry enough, ci- 

 der enough — in short, enough and more than 

 enough of every thing necessary to eat and drink. 

 I have enough of every thing but money. All I 

 want of money is to pay my taxes. But, in order 

 to raise these six dollars, if I do not get a town 

 order for your board, I must nmke a journey to 

 Portland or Bath, Avith three times the produce 

 you will eat, and from all this I find it difficult to 

 raise six dollars in cash. Therefore, I make mo- 

 ney by keeping you to eat this produce, and have 

 your company these long winter evenings in the 

 bargain. Thus you see I am interested m board- 

 ing you even at forty cents a week.' 



Now, we give this to all our southern brethren, 

 as a specimen of the manner in which we Yan- 

 kees live and thrive. Let them do likewise, and 

 their country will be the richest and happiest on 

 the globe. Here we are shivering in summer, 

 with corn but three inches high to the most, while 

 they are enjoying the blessings of mid-summer, 

 and have corn almost ready for harvest. 



From the Southern Agriculturist. 

 PRACTICAI. OBSERVATIONS ON THE RECLAIM- 

 ING OF MARSH OR RUSH LAND, PUTTING 

 DOWN TRUNKS IN THESE LANDS AND PRE- 

 PARING THE LAND FOR THE SEED I hv Q. 



Mr. Editor, — It is one of those gloomy depres- 

 sing days, which induce Englishmen to throw 

 themselves into the Thames, and Frenchmen to re- 

 sort to the gambling table, but as neither of these 

 resources suit my taste, I have determined to kill 

 the day, and not myself, by asking you a question 

 or two, and communicating to you a few facts, the 

 result of my own observation. 



How does it happen, sir, that the subjects which 

 head this article, so important in themselves, and 

 so essential to the success of those who begin their 

 agricultural life in new lands, are so seldom no- 

 ticed and so little understood.? 



Is there a lack of intelligence among our rice 

 planters which prevents them from communicating 

 to you the result of their experience, or is it an un- 

 willingness t})at others should profit by their labor? 



Is there no new land to be brought under culti- 

 vation.? or is the subject, one of so little importance 

 as not to need elucidation .? 



It will not be assuming any vpry great respon- 



