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Taking A Hint

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
August
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

It is very surprising to see how slow iome men are totakeahint. The frost iestroys about or.ehalfthe bloomon fruit trees ; everybody prognosticatcs the loss of fruit ; instead of tliat, the half that remain, are larger, fairer, and higher flavo red than usual ; and the trees, instead of bcing exhausted, are ready for. anothercrop tho next year: Why don't they tak e the hint, and thin out lus fruitevery bearing yearf JJut no ; the next seasonsees his orchard overloaded, fruit small, and not well formeel ; vet he always boasts of that first mentioned erop, without profiting by the lasson which it teaches. We heard a man saying, "the best erop of eclevy I eversaw, was raised by old John , on a spot of ground whcre the wash from the barn-yard ran into it after every hard shewer." Did he take the hint, and apply liquid mnnure to his celery trencb.es? Not at all. We knew a case whcre a farmer subsoiled a field, and raised crops in consequence, which were the admiration of the whole neighborhood ; and for years the field showed the ndvantages of deep handling. But we could not learn thal a single farmer in the neigliborhood took the hint. The mrm who acted thus wisely, sold his farm, and his successor pursued the old wayof surface scratching. A staunch farmer complained to us of his soil as too loóse und light ; we mentioned ashes ns worth trying ; "Well, now you menüon if, I bclieve it will do good. I bought a part of my farm from a man who was a wonderful fellow to save up ashes. and around hiscabin itlay in heaps. I took away the house, mid to this day I notice that when the plow runs along that spot, the soil turns up moist and close-grained." Jt is strange that he nevcr took the hint. A farmer gets a splendid erop of corn or other grain from off a grrss or clover ley. Does he take the hint ? Doei i he adopt the system which shall allow him every year a sward to put his grair i on 1 No, he hatos book farming, ant ; scientific farming, and "this notion of ro ! tation ;" and plods on the old way.-Essex Transcript. Whcn wc see a man kick a horsr, wè 8ay at once, that he never necd ío como to eourt our dauffhter, for he should not hr.ve