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a few weeks. They fix the time of your 

 credits by the arrangements they make to 

 pay*for goods. Yoa cannot withhold your 

 money from them without seriously affect- 

 ing, if not breaking up their business. — 

 Economize, manage your matters, and pay 

 your debts, and it will be altogether best 

 for you. 



Latterly there has been, under what is 

 sometimes called "famine prices" for pro- 

 duce, a great disposition to enlarge farms. 

 Lands have been purchased on credit to do 

 this, and the farmer has been made the 

 slave of his ambition. Many lands thus 

 purchased we fear cannot be paid for under 

 the present aspect of the times. We be- 

 lieve our farmers would find it most profit- 

 able — we mean those farmers who "hold or 

 drive," if they would cultivate smaller farms. 

 The farming would be done better — crops 

 would be heavier — and the appearance of 

 the farm would be more satisfactory to the 

 owner. He would not always be upon a 

 strife to get money to pay for labor. His 

 family would be more comfortable; and, 

 smaller farms, by enabling you to have 

 school houses convenient, and better roads 

 and bridges, would greatly benefit yourselves 

 and the community generally. 



Our advice to our friends is — to get their 

 crops to market when markets are open — 

 to pay your debts, to live economically, and 

 work onl Times will change. The few 

 weeks that we have been compelled to stop 

 trading with England for articles which are 

 better made here, has compelled England to 

 send over specie to pay balances against 

 her. The specie sent over there for iron 

 and cloths months ago, is coming back, — 

 for our merchants are too poor to keep up 

 the importations. If by law we could so 

 arrange our trade with foreign countries as 

 to make it a healthy one, sending off our 

 products in exchange for those we receive, 

 we should in our judgment, experience no 

 such convulsions as we are now passing 

 through. But these matters are left to pol- 

 iticans, matters which should never be con- 

 sidered as bearing upon politics. The his- 

 tory of the country shows that in early 



times, oar great men acted npon these sab- 

 jects trithoat regard to ephemeral politics. 



Nortbern Sagar Cane. 



The Chinese sugar cane will hereafter be 

 one of the staple productions of our State. 

 Scattered over erery part of it, there were 

 raised the season just closing, patches of 

 this cane. lu most instances a trial has 

 been made of its value as a saccharine 

 plant, and with saccesi. We hare seen and 

 conversed with many who have tried it, 

 without finding a single exception to this 

 conclusion. 



A fine article of the s jrnp of this cane 

 has been and is selling here at this time, at 

 $1 25 per gallon. This was manufactured 

 by Col. M. Pierson, farmer, near this city. 

 We shall undoubtedly have the article for 

 sale in all our towns the coming winter. 



It is very gratifying that persons who 

 commenced the manufacture of the juice 

 into syrup, with no practical knowledge of 

 the proper process, have attained results 

 entirely satisfactory. In conversation, they 

 unanimously say that they went on improv- 

 ing their syrup, from the commencement of 

 the trial, and that in the last boiler was 

 the best. 



Within a few days we have had heavy 

 frosts and indeed for two nights something 

 of a "freeze." We are not certain what ef- 

 fect the freeze will have on the cane. One 

 of our farmers told us he had made the 

 best syrups since the "freeze." Another 

 that he thought the freezing lessened the 

 saccharine matter in the cane. By the 

 time the next number of the Farmer is is- 

 sued, we hope to have statistics of pro- 

 duction this season — the manner of ex- 

 pressing the juice from the stalks, the proper 

 mills, the best arrangements for boiling 

 and for the purification of the syrup, the 

 belt mode of cultivating the plant, the 

 proper soils, the amount of syrup from the 

 acre, and many other items of importance. 

 We have many farmers in our State whose 

 knowledge on these subjects, obtained by 

 observation and experience, should not be 

 withheld from the people. 



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