Show THE ONE ACRE FARM OK ont A cu cure CUKE RE FOR yon hand HARD TIMES 1 BT BY HOE how much land have hake you got here herp in in y your 0 u r lot mr brigs briggs I 1 V ai 1 I have Z one ore cre sore it i one acre and here you are arc taking the new naw england farmer fanner the cultivator honeys IIo lio veys magazine and the tha horticulturist and all because you have one acre of ground how many such papers would you have to take isyou had a hundred dacres acres i 11 1 I should rit probably need more than ihan I 1 take now you know mr hir chapman one can gan san go through willell will all ali the notions on one acre as well as on a lt undred hundred A man can ran throop throw way away money without any if lie he has haa a mind to for ifor all the good you get from such sueh periodicals yon might as well probably throw tile he money motley they cost into the fire their are nothing but humburgs humbugs hum bugs 61 1 I pay two dollars for the new england farmer one dollar for or the cultivator three dollars for fur tile the horticulturist and two dollars for hov ays eys magazine in all eight dollars eight ight dollars enough to buy a tiptop tip top barrel of or flour and a leg of bacon and then if you read rend these periodicals there is twice the amount of the money spent in the time lime of reading them 1 I do usually read or hear bear read almost every word there is in them my boys hoys and I 1 take turns in readi reading nr and one reads aloud while the reit reft work complete non ron nonsense no wonder your shop dont dent turn 0 out 1 ut any any more inore boots in a day than it doest does i hl i perhaps Per hap we dont do as great days work some same days as some of our neighbors but I 1 gues guess that in the course of the year we vve turn out ns many according to the number of hands at work as most do 11 1 suppose it is out of these publications you vou you get your foolish notions about so many kinds of fruit trees one of my baya bays came homp home a awhile ano aro and said mr brighi had got it lots and lots of fruit trees and such thines thinus that cost rest I 1 dont know how much mu chand and wanted me to buy some grape vines vines pear tree freer and so on I 1 told him it was all foolishness and pot not to let me we hear him bay adv thing about spending money so sa foolishly you have I 1 da dare r e say laid out ten oi or fifteen dollars this spring ng 3 yes ayes nearly as much again I 1 have laid out twenty five dollars for trees and garden fruits 1 I twenty fige five dollars I 1 wonder you are not on or the town or in jail atlease at least before now im not afraid of either ill bet you do dollars llara that I 1 will sell you that amount of fruit from those things for which I 1 paid the twenty five dollar dollars in five years done ill stand you so your trees will cost you fifty dollars sure in money besides the time me thrown away in setting them out and tak ine ins care of them k As for the time lime spent in setting them out or taking care of them it is as good exercise as p playing I 1 ayin g ball wicket or anything else while we were setting them out one of your boys came to get my hoys boys to go over to mr moodys Mo moods odys where he said was to be a great time playing T ball and I 1 have no doubt your boys spend just as much time playing as mine do with our trees and so forth and then something is done but in playing the strength ia is all laid out for nothing well it dont cost anything to play ball but trees cost money the foregoing conversation occurred in the shop between two neighbors both bootman boot mak ers in a town not more than thirty miles from boston 1 1 i 1 r 7 r mr nir briggs in whose shop the conversation took place was a man of more than ordinary intelligence for one of his advantages and circumstances cum rum stances in life he had been a poor boy and by industry observation and conomy had worked his way on in life and reared and weil well educated a family of children who like himself were industrious and steady for the few years past he had become interested in horticulture and both for exercise and amusement had turned his attention to culli bating his one acre farm his attention was first called to this thit by means of a back number 0 orthe new england farmer which was put pu t round some things bought at the store mr dir briggs found this so interesting that he purchased another number at the periodical depot and then he became a regular subscriber his sons soon became interested in the same sarno direction and the interest of the father and sons increased to the pitch indicated in the foregoing conversation in time every inch of that acre of ground wag waa brought under the spade and almost every best variety of fruits had a place there and the father and sons found pleasure and profit in the garden after being shut up in the shop till the stent was done and the exercise was wa is far r more profitable than the spasmodic violent exercise exercise taken in game mr chapman the flie other neighbor was a man of oatlie tile tiie common stamp ile he looked upon every thing new or uncommon as folly and nonsense and was ready to sneer at every one who stepped aside from the common track it looked simply imply silly to him to see a man stay at home from muster or training or show spend his bis t time 1 in cultivating a garden or instead of loitering away the evening at the store smoking and hearing or telling a deal rieal of nothing or wo worse arse to spend the evenings at home reading such nonsense as the farmer and horticulturist afford years pass and mr briggs brings one acre farm shows that he and his boys have not read the pa pers in vain they have learned to set out a tree and how to take care of f it after it was set get out every thing showed it received the right kind of food and care and straightway began to bring forth fruits meet for good cultivation in a short time the wants of the family were more than supplied and the surplus found a ready market with tile tiie neighbors at good prices those early parly apples so rich ana tempt tempting irig when nil other apples were so green preen and hard and then such pears they went as fast as the sun and house could ripen them at three four and five centi centt apiece then such clusters nf f rich rid ripe grapes too tempting for the coldest to pass without a watering mouth mr chap mans family gamily were among the best customers for the tempting fruit first having learned their excellence by liy tile the liberality of mr briggs who never failed to send a specimen of his best to his neighbor the fifth season came and it proved a very fruitful year A apple appie p le pear peach plum and other trees were fo loaded abed with fruit ke kepping keeping ping in mind his conversation w with ith al mr chapman mr briggs had directed his family to tn set down every cents worth of fruit sold to mr adir chapman or his family this year as it happened was a year of extreme hard times the boot business was at its lowest ebb little work wark and vry very fry low wames wages wages and yet the llie prices of every kind of provisions up to the highest notch and money extremely tight light t but there was gnp on family that did not seem i to be in the least affected by the change in the prices of labor and high rates ot of provisions or scar ity of money mr briggs and ilia his two oldest sons had a little spare change to let on short time to their needy neighbors one dav day mr chapman who was short api plied to mr briggs for a halt for a quarter im meaning caning fifty dollars for three months yes said mr briggs aa a half or a whole just as you like what a hundred dollars by you these time timp how is this you and your boys dont work any harder than I 1 and my buys boys do and we can scarcely zet set along we are as saving and pinching as cari can le he too times ire to ko dreadful lard hard an and d every thing a family has to buy is so dreadful high and wages so low bs a dollar a 1 bushel beef fifteen cents a pound pork sixten sixt en cents eggs twenty give five cents a dozen and flour ten nr or twelve dollars a barrel how cn cm a man live it wont be hardly fair for meto me to ask for that twenty five dollars now will it I 1 i I 1 twenty i give rive dollars what do you mean I 1 dont un understand der stand you dont you recollect we have a bet between us about the price of some fruit trees I 1 bought five yeara ago next spring ah ali I 1 do remember something about it you yon were to give me twenty five dollars if you get ge ayour your twenty five dollars back from me for the products of those trees and things it will come very handy just now y dont be too fast neighbor I 1 am afraid it wont come very handy just now that was what I 1 was dunning you for that twenty five dollars what you dont dent pretend 0 to o say we ive have had twenty five dollars worth woith of autt from frona your garden more maiore than that from that very twenty five dollars worth of trees and other things here is an account of every thing you have bought and paid for of course it dont include what I 1 have sent you gratis gratia and you certainly have not been stingy clingy why this tins bill amounts to thirty seven dol doi dollars lIts it is not possible it is just BO so you have had over twenty bushels of apples and ad three bu liels of pears and these theme alone come to twenty five dol doi dollar lars larm 1 I I own up tile tiie corn draw the note for seven ty five dollars conov nn nov v I 1 guess we will let that twenty fivey five go 0 o I 1 only mention it to show you that there may tle lie good sense in in new things sometimes now no NY ill lil let lel iel iet the twenty five dollars ovet over again that loy low store bill hav hay not been the palt past season linof as large as yours though I 1 have hive had one the more in my family if I 1 had not beer so badly taken in before I 1 would stand you but I 1 guess it wont be safe y we have hive raised our own pot corn pens bealis beans and other garden vegetables our e egg gd are always fresh and in in abundance from the tile nelt neit and for more than flan two years we have not been without ripe resh fresh fruit now how can than bew ber be well by the tile first of june we luave have strawberries ripe soon after cherries then tilen ties currants gooseberries goose berries and so forth and long before these are gon gone the ahe early earla apples pears and peaches then grapes gropes later pears and apples and these continue all winter and apples until july when the early fruits again con hect the luscious circle well I 1 declare that is something I 1 never thought of but it tikes so much time and both cr er to get these things started then iol lol its s an eyer everlasting er job to take care of them i it needs no more time lime and money than you throw away on things that amount lo 10 nothing at itt all and with abundance of fruit you save the expense of n heavy meat bill which diet is is not atall at all ali healthy ingot in hot weather no doctor lias has been to step ster foot into my door for over four years past fresh ripe fruits fruit sur sir ure tre sure remedies for all ailments and they are not hard lo 10 take lake mr chapman put the he fifty into his wael wapl asel skin ekin and left with witha a flea in in his ear N E L farmer |