Ben Bable On Farming

JSvery maa ïsn t competent to writo a book ou farming, siipply becau.su he may have ohaneed to gut u corn colorud complexion by lying out in thu sun, po.-tsibly uu a trvass plot. Color bas beun - as we all know - a very exoiting topic. Tlie agitation of black and white ïu.idu a great many look blue for several yeurs - at intervals. But color aloat, isut uny ovidence that a ïuan is a farmer. I've seen as white a man as ever buttoued up a .shirt, who didn 't know a hoo handle from a churn dasher ; and I hav soen one so black that bis shadow falling on a ten acre lot at noonday has left that lot shrouded in total darknees ever sinoe, who didn't know the düfsrenoe between a lima bean and a cucumber. In faet I men of U ooloi entirely destituto ot' what ono man should know " About Farming." Complexión I say ifaerefore ia no indioation of nian's knowjedge of agricultura, Farming is one thing in theory, and anothcr in practioe. ou can t raise chickens by planting cggti, my moro thun yon can raise a colt by planting a plow ooulter ; you can't get a barrel of ilour by planting flowers - all these things huvo to be learnedj and observation is a very important agent in securing knowledge. No less than flfty persons within the past three days have asked ino to " write a book." When I'm on the plantation I cm appreciate my inability to writo tho fivst two linos of a Prefaoe. ïwo days' tui!:, Buch is I've listened to in your city, came near convertiiig me to the opinión that I was an agricultura! genius, fully competent to out-do Mr. Ghreeley and writo " Finis " to a book of 800 pagea in two weeks. Mr8. Jiabbl tliinks I'd botter learn flrst not to bring home to her auy more snapdragon and "ÜTO-forever" for dioico botanioal planta ; that I'd be ascurtain tho di.stinetion betwoen farming implemento, o that when I'm Bont alter a roapi r I can bring homo som-cthing else Shan ii hay-fork. The weather beoaine so warm a few days since, that Í lelt confideiit I could raise a erop of cotton before the trost caught it, and ah 1 had no seod, 1 folio wcd Mr. advioe and plantea1 - in drills- some ootton batting. Mrs. iiabblo thinks I better watch it closely or 1 ntay get a orop of coat linings. 1 told her tho soasons wero so variable now-a-days that a farmer hordly knew what would coinu u i ; that he waa as liable to get barley trom beans, or pie-plant rrora buok-orop, as anything elaê. .1 inooculated souiekernels of corn wheat in trying to " c witli ueppermint drops, and am oxpocta produoiioa bt cologne that will ''just knock" Dew-D-Audes, and I Love N"n, of the market. ïhure's a fortune in store for me, Mrs. ]iabblu Bays, if the wenther only proves propitious so :is to enable me to gtther n before the close oi' the watering season. I propo s to commeuce advortising - that all editora like- -this article m a t'ew days; iufaci just as soon as 1 enn hit upon some " nobby " natne for it. (Conadontially, inay ï assume that th bill will bc taken out in a few bottles of perr fumery. Mrs. ; ys l'ii 6 orusher to extract the juice, and tliinks a cotton gin might. 1 teil her that I'm nol partial.to that brand of gin- its too A eider presa has been tendered me, lit tho patturn is too stnull, being a to '"mash " onlj ■ at a time, i pity the man whowaite for the eider ilit comes frouj - ■ -iiiinj ; and yet the inventiou tella me he is gure of succesa - he's been to Long Branch to seo "the govenimrnt." Mrs. H kbble's man Priday, whoassumes to know eyerything thinks ['d better buy a grist mili. His opinión on my tobáceo planta in that they are very promising mullen leaves - ii' so they turn iut, there U be a row between myself and that i bor of Gongress who sent me the i no member of the Lower House can plaj that trickon me with impunity. We had a very exciting inowing maten on the plantation a few days since, Ln whieh theWanior, the Buokoye, the Advance and tibe Bprague machines were 'the contestants, I being the umpire. They mowed abóui two hours and 1 announoed tbot " all had done romarkably well" - and bo they had; they had oui about i our grass. But they wanteil ttnal ju. hrment OH tile nu rits oi' i,he respective machines. I deláyed nction a couplí' of days, and gol e flO note brom one uvan, $l from unother, sjn Erom tho third man, but the fourth wasn't in clined to " see " me - be seemed to have doubts is to my honesty, never before (juestioned. I ;'hung ofi&" and finally gol his oheok for 60, my mind was made up in a very few moments that he had thobest maobiue, and so I decided. Me stopped paymenl of the check. I donJt think liis machine móws tety well, in any ívspect. Spceulative-ly youTB) Bi:.n ÍiAHi;i.l::. BCfiniagG is liho a brUlÍHnt (npor's liht, Plaoed at a viiximv in :i sammei aight, Alt moting all the et the lir Tt oom! and Bingi their pp ■■ tnngl tsi hen ; i ■ .■. ■ . ml butt hoadfl againsi tihe puno S ! tlioei) within butt to-jjwt wit ugain.