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1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
199 
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n 
PLANT THE 
BACK TALK. fession and takes an active interest in 
A Transfer of Slavery. the advancement of agriculture in his 
E. L. S., North Truro, Mass —I have native State. When asked to he a candi- 
been much interested in Fred Grundy’s date for Treasurer of his State, he said 
“old chap.” I wish some cf The Rural’s could not afford to do it because the 
correspondents would give some sign of salary of Treasurer, $ 2 , 000 , would not 
thinking an inch or more below the sur- P a y hi™ for his absence from his farm. 
face. All laboring classes have as much J. his ^.continually improving and all 
, , ... , bus capital is invested in his business, 
need of practicing economy as farmers. and y e t j <j oub t if be ever had $10,000 
Suppose they all did, where would be our cash outside that farm, and still he would 
boasted “home market?” The “old think an income of $1,500 a year next 
chap ” says his first $50 interest money starvation. When a stranger stops 
, , , ... „ "at his gate he receives him as a gentle- 
seemed almost like finding money. I man, if he deserves to be so received, 
should think it would seem like having In fact, the poorest farmer in the South 
it given him. I think he is mistaken in could not be as rude and boorish as the 
regard to his cushion. He bought it man n , Mr * Grundy last described. He 
... , . . , , , . , would not know how, never having seen 
with money his neighbors gave him after men act in such a way. He might be 
he became an ex-farmer. He has an in- merely a poor cotton cropper, and living 
come of $1,500, I think. That is the in a shanty, but he could never be an 
wages of several men-three at least. Jll-mannered hog. Look around, Mr. 
„ T , Grundy, and see if there are not some 
i ears ago I read in the Youth s Com- intelligent farmers in your part of the 
panion of a young slave whose owner country, who are not mere skinflints, 
promised him his freedom when he should nor ill-bred brutes. For the credit of 
have cleared 100 acres. He inclosed it Z° UT , secti ™ 1 bo P e the samples you 
^ J . have described are scarce. 
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eight years. Our ex-farmer’s oldest son 
“ paid out ” in eight years. Every man What is the best wa ? to fit cla r land 
in debt is to that extent a slave. The for P otatoes ? 
difference between black slavery and An ? thi ^ that wil1 loosen U P the soil 
debt slavery, to my mind, is in degree and make it fine will be of benefit. Cover 
and not in quality. Why is it less offensive with straw or coarse manure. Plow in 
to absorb the wages of a number of men the falL Set tbe furrows on ed ? e and let 
than to own an equal number? It is frost act on them. In spring, cross¬ 
slavery all the same, and the long war plow and tborou 2 hl y mix - Sow clover, 
never abolished slavery-it did away with and after the first mowin ff break U P- ™ 
only one form, and thus intensified the tbe Soil with ve £ etable matter 
others. The record of that young negro helpS to retain moisture and P lant food - 
and the 100-acre clearing made a deep How much seed is it profitable to use in 
impression on my mind, and I never hear a bd ^ P°^ a ^ oes ** 
of a mortgage without thinking of it. That de P ends on tbe condition of the 
Freedom will never obtain until interest SOlL Tbe finer and better 11 is prepared ’ 
on money is regarded as inhuman as chat- the smaller tbe seed pieces can be without 
tel slavery now is. danger of their failin ? to germinate. 
At what price can potatoes be grown 
Grundy’s Farmer. for a fair profit ? 
Prof. W. F. Massey, Raleigh, N. C.— It all depends on the man. Some men 
I don’t think “ Crosby and that other can sell for 25 cents per bushel and get 
fellow” will be much more impressed pay for the labor by using horses and 
with Mr. Grundy’s “ second edition” of machinery instead of hand tools. One 
his farmer than they were with his first, man gave an account of his method, 
—“ God bless me and my wife, my son which 
John and his wife, us four and no more” 
was the prayer of a similar character I 
have heard of—“ no future generations 
in his.” The chief criticism I made on 
Mr. Grundy’s first account was that the 
man was no farmer, but simply a man 
who by skinflint economy got all he 
could out of a farm, and when he got to¬ 
gether $10,000 quit the farm to retire as 
a curbstone broker for an income 
$1,500 a year. If he had been a real 
farmer and had a good farm with a cash 
capital of $10,000 he would have staid on 
the farm and made more money. A man 
with a good farm and $10,000 capital, the foliage ; plow between the rows and 
who can’t make much more than $1,500 cover with soil. Give a thorough har- 
a year is a very poor farmer. Mr. Grundy rowing until the plants begin to show 
held this man up as a model for farmers, through the covering. A new growth 
Mr. Grundy is unfortunate in the farmers will come on which will be vigorous and 
he knows, or farmers out there must be tree from disease. 
a most uncouth and uncivilized set, jadg- What is the value of wood ashes as a 
ing from the ill-mannered sample de- fertilizer? 
, ,. It varies with their character. They 
scribed a short time ago. . * 7. , " 
are valuable for their potash, and are 
Now let me describe a farmer “ way worth probably from $8 to $10 per ton 
down South,” a real man and a gentle- Which is the best kind of clover both 
man. He has a large farm which he has fo £* eedin F and ferti lizing purposes? 
._ t, v . The Red still remains, for all purposes, 
made from a howling wilderness since the best of all the c i overs . Other kinds 
he came out of the Confederate army, are being experimented with, and under 
with hardly rags enough to hide his ver y favorable conditions do well, 
nakedness. He grows cotton, but not , What is the best way to cure clover for 
that only, for he raises abundant forage, & % nt it in the morning> stir and rake be _ 
and keeps sheep and hogs and thorough- fore it is dry enough for the leaves to 
bred Jerseys and standard-bred trotting break off. Let it stand in the cock and 
horses, and keeps them all well. Every ® wea ^ ou f- Hy the second day it should 
_i v j ... j j j be ready to be drawn in without opening. 
spot on his land that needs underdrain- What quantity of grain shou ld be fed 
mg* is so drained. His crops of all kinds to a yearling* colt? ^ 
are big, and while folks around him are H needs as much the first year as any 
buying Western meat, he is selling home °^ ker - There should be no stoppage of 
cured bacon. Hi. large and comfort- ^each o^aVSwS'bran, a™ 
able house was his own planning*, and a pint of oil meal per day. CD ^ 
the money for it was made on the farm. Should a horse be blanketed in the 
His daughters were sent to the best stak l® ? 
schools, and the fami.y has a real home sh“ l^^t^arml we^asLy oth^r 
where all the luxuries of the farm are animal, and if the manure freezes, he 
plentiful, and they enjoy the good things will do better if blanketed. A blanket 
of this life. He is not yet an “ old fel- made b y sewing bran sacks together is 
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