Show all england turning farmers not only has the mania for farming pursuits taken hold of those located in close proximity to farming districts and living in smaller towns but the fever created by the bubli ca linof OUR farhi FARM OF FOUR fourt ACRES and the money we made by it ity a racy practical story from the p pen en of an englishwoman t has extended itself into the midst of the metropolitan cockneys cockney cock ss of london itself where millions have been reared ank ana and passed away without even seeing a farm or scarcely knowing that there was purer air in the region of our sphere than that putrid mass that floats about london and which they had quaffed as though it was the tha pure element of life while in truth it contains III in a large proportion those that tend to dissolution multitudes who have in years gone by toiled in the workshops of the manufacturing towns of england and lingered out a miserable existence among the operatives of the dingy eight by ten workshops and miscellaneous establishments of the metropolis are ardently longing to exchange their places for the occupation of a small farm and the more satisfactory profits arising an exchange C says that the triumph of the ame age age 0 in the art of husbandry consists in proving that a few acres scientifically cultivated pay a better and surer profit in general than many acres loosely tilled under the traditional systems 1 and that the problem of the times is upon how small a quantity of land may a man 1 live comfortably and support his family these are questions of no trifling import they come home to the very hearthstone of multitudes of the very best of human kind on this subject the london weekly dispatch contains a spirited article from which we extract I 1 as follows nature stirs within us pleads with all oe of us who are not quite rotten at the core to go back to her to make our abode with her to shut out the world that insane sophistication has fashioned and open up anew that which the creator has unfolded to feel that god made ade the country and man made the town this this is indeed the sheet anchor of the hope of the patriot the consolation of the moralist the light to the labors of the philanthropist philanthropic t this rush of all who can out of the town awa away y from its sights and scenes its thoughts its jaded feelings feeling sits its skepticism of good goot its that neither believes nor hopes hopeb its despair of human nature that geranium in the window or mignion ette oa on the sill the green leaves of the elms glimmering at the window ot 0 the counting house in the court the bees in the spitalfields Spital fields garret they are all fragments broken off the country by the liht poor prisoner who cannot get there this thi s delight in rural scenes this instinctive unconquerable qu erable attachment to nature naked as from the earth it camey cames came and entered life at first this passion for the thre pursuits of country activity the diversities of agricultural occupation the battle with the elementary laws and the hard facts of creat creation ion iOD and the escape from the circle of predicaments in which human nature takes the chief part is let us all be thankful for it es especially english it is this tie that perhaps is the source of th the profound melancholy that wat is at the bottom oke oie of tte tie the great heart of john bull his ilia love of something better and purer than the rank and gross thins thin things s that alone poss pose possess ess the lic ril hin Sin weeded garden garan of the world his disgust dla dia 0 at the oppressors oppre wron wrens the proud proui man x contumely the pang padg par of de dep depal pmj kl loe lore tae ane labye law delay lelay the nce rice of r ace and the spurns that patient merit of the uc worthy unworthy ake draws him back to rest on the lap of his cornmon common mother earth to drink in nature as the creator fashioned it to start pir fit a lodja in som anif vnye tt rist some bounlab bound boun lB les contiguity y or af shade where rumor of or d arceli celt aught never ni vet vee teach reach him more moie e alluin 0 to thi the change so mysteriously taking in place in the minds of the minor tradesmen and operatives of london the interest being awakened irv in them for agricultural pursuits the dispatch says they are even beginning to know more of the country and a good deal less of the town agricultural science attracts more general attention tho the productive capabilities of land are better understood and seem to be infinitely important in making up the sum of national wealth the moral mental and physical uses of rural industry become also we trust more appreciated A small work our farm of four acres and the money we made of it has been bought up with a degree of avidity which shows that the current carrent has strongly nily set in the direction of rural tastes and miss mar afar ti story of our farm of two acres just completed has formed the chief source of the sale of the new periodical once a week 21 nobody has done such service to this cause a as 51 william cobbett with all his prejudices his unfairness his narrow minded errors his unsparing and violent personalities there is a cleanness and health about that mans mind which is eminently refreshing there is nothing of the conventionality of the great wen about him he is eminently a typical englishman his rural rides his hia cottage economy his advice to young men his gardener form the most charming reading in and present endless exquisite pictures oj of scenery enery c and farm life that are unequalled unequal led in our literature there is too a real insight in them that startles one at the wonders that may be done with the soil for the substantial benefit of the nation the laborers friend friends had shown how a pig abid arid a cow could be kept on an acre of land the cottage economy proved that I 1 a quarter of an acre might keep a cow captain blacker martin doyle oconnor passi passy laing mill and others have subsequent subsequently y demonstrated the wonders of the small farm system in ireland and on the continent john of suffolk on his two acres continues his demonstration of the endless fertility and productiveness of which the soil is capable under careful and assiduous manipulation and now families of the less dependent classes are beginning to fall into the practice of making th the e most of in place neglecting neglect in their gardens and their paddocks at the time of the cochin cochia china fowl furore ladies in various parts of or the country pursued the breeding of poultry for profit with the I 1 greatest success various interesting details of extensive dairies conducted by ladies with sub Bub substantial returns have a appeared eared in chambers journal and the household ouse hold hoid words Word sy and there is now no kind of reading so carefully studied and so eagerly pursued by ladies and heads of families as that supplied by miss mibs martineau and the authoress of our our oar farm of four acres if listless young ladies observes miss martineau from any town in england could witness the way in in w which hi c h hours slip by in in tending the garden and consulting about the crops and gathering fruit and flo they would think there must be something in it more than they understand if they would but try their hand at makiji making a batch of butter or condescend to gath gather r figs eggs eggs and court acquaintance with hens and their broods or assume the charge of a single nest they would eind find that life has pleasures for them that they the K knew n e N v ii not of pleasures that have as inu int much le romance and ind poetry in them as any book in mcfiel audies library ll 11 |