1871. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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The farm, as a •whole, is a fair example of 

 what thorough drainage, protection, and care- 

 ful culture will accomplish. The fences are 

 good, and the land under them is clean, the 

 fields — though the harvests had been gathered 

 from them — indicated high condition. They 

 were broad, clean and productive. All the 

 cattle of the farm are white Short-horns, and 

 possess the fine points of that famous breed. 

 A few sheep, together with a vaiicty of poul- 

 ^Tj gave animation to the scene, and were 

 the source of cheerful hopes in a gastronomic 

 point of view. 



The dwelling is unique. There is probably 

 on other like it in the country. It is in the 

 form of the segment of a circle, fianked at the 

 points by a round stone building. A porch 

 over the main entrance to the centre building, 

 is sustained by large cedar posts, with the 

 bark on them, and the whole front is overrun 

 with the Tennessee or some other climbing rose 

 interspersed with creeping plants that tiower at 

 different times. The internal arrangements 

 are as unique as the external. The broad 

 hall, with its galleries, and four parlors open- 

 ing into each other in a circle, remind one of 

 the halls of the ancient barons which we read 

 of in the novels. But it is the circular stone 

 building on the south of the structure, where 

 the genius loci may mostly be found, among 

 rare paintings and books, Indian relics, and 

 relics of men buried 3,000 years ago, armors 

 of Spaaish Knights, Salvos from Damascus, 

 ancient records of agricultural practices, and 

 more than 15,000 autographs of distinguished 

 persons ! 



In order to keep fresh in the memory some 

 of the modes of living, the furniture, crockery, 

 clothing and domestic utensils of his ancestors, 

 he has several apartments filled with all the 

 appliances of their day, from the kitchen fire- 

 place to the bed-room and parlor. Most of 

 these articles were the property of the occu- 

 pants of the farm, and have been handed 

 down with jealous care from one generation to 

 another. 



Pleased as we were, however, with the for- 

 est and the farm, nothing was so gratifying to 

 us as the spirit which animated the domestic 

 life of all, parents, sisters and children ; — 

 that domestic life which is — 



— "filondly to the hcBt pii'»alt» of man, i 

 Friacdly to tbouglu, to virtue, a:.d to peace," ' 



those loving and loveable hearts, that 



"Brighten light. 

 And give back sunghioe with an added glow." 



HON. HORACE CAPBON'S ADDBE8S. 



We have read with much interest the address 

 of the present head of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment at Washington, delivered at the Cotton 

 State Fair and Agricultural Congress held in 

 Augusta, Georgia, during the last week in October. 

 It was so pointed and practical, and contained so 

 many homely, old fashioned truths in respect to 

 the true causes and fjundation of national as well 

 individual prosperity and wealth, that we have 

 been a little curious to see how it would be re- 

 ceived by the Southern people. 



The Borne Journal of Lexington, Ky., says "it 

 was full of timely suggestions, and was well re- 

 ceived," and gives the following synopsis of the 

 address : — 



He urged the importance of mapufactures. With 

 the abundant fuel and wat-r power found through- 

 out that section, the greater portion of the cotton 

 crop could be manufactured, at least, into yarns 

 and coarse fabrics, and many millions of profit 

 saved to the South that has heretofore been lost to 

 it from the absence of this lucrative industry. 

 England and France make one dollar's worth of 

 raw cotton yield three, and the Southern factories 

 could, in time, turn out all the gojds for which 

 they have now to send North. These ideas have 

 been repeatedly set forth in this paper, and tbe 

 notable success of the manufactory established at 

 Augusta— two-thirds of the capital of which has 

 come from its own earnings — proves conclusively 

 th.it such enterpri^•es are practicable. 



There is no reason why a single pound of sugar 

 should be brought from abroad, for, although our 

 home production la=t year WdS not ten per cent, of 

 the consumption, Louisiana alone has suitable 

 lands of sufficient area to tupply the present wants 

 of the countiy. Tbe fruits which grow in the fer- 

 tile South are of such wonderlul variety, the pro- 

 ducts of which show so largely in our Imports, 

 should add annually millions of dollars to the 

 wealth of that section and the country. The 

 cheapest beef and cheapest wool produced in the 

 country, are now, as the statistics show, the pro- 

 duct of the grasses of the Gulf States. 



Mr. Caprou also urged upon the Southern people 

 the benttits that would result to them from a sys- 

 tem of mixed husbandry. If more grain were 

 raised and lets cotton, they would be better otT, 

 for it is an established prmciple that men grow 

 rich by what they make, and the opinion was con- 

 tidentially expressed that the Jime would como 

 when the products of cotton will be all surplus, 

 other products paying the expenses of the farms. 

 He encouraged also a restorative instead of an ex- 

 haustive sy.stem of agriculture, the use of fertil- 

 izers, judicious rotation and a course of grasses. 



Tbe Home Journal ul?o says that the "Congress," 

 consisting of delegates from agricultural and other 

 societies, was organized by the selection of Hon. 

 Ilerschell V. Johnson as president, and adds : — 



Speeches were made by representative men 

 from all the lute slavehoKhng States, setting' forih 

 the advantages and c.ipacities of that section, and 

 the necessity, not only lt)r a wickr range of pro- 

 duction, but the feasibility and profit ot manutac- 

 tures. Coniniittees were appointed for practical 

 work ad interim, and Selina, Alabama, designate' 

 as the place tor the next uiuetiug. 



