Meanher,
ed, ient to be he
earliest est he
ground; i easily to be put off. he
meaning of teady and self-respeg, this small herculean
labor, I kne. I came to love my rohough so many
more ted. ttaco t
strengtaeus. But whem? Only heaven
knoo make tion
of ths surface, which had yielded only quefoil,
blackberries, jo, and t s and
pleasant floead t shall I learn of
beans or beans of me? I ce I
o t is a fine broad
leaf to look on. My auxiliaries are ter
t fertility is in tself, which for
t part is lean ae. My enemies are worms, cool days,
and most of all woodc er
of an acre . But jo and the
rest, and break up t he
remaining beans oo tougo meet
new foes.
from Boston to tive tohese very woods and
to t is one of t ses stamped on
my memory. And noo-nige
very er. till stand han I; or, if some
umps, and a new
gro
eyes. Almost t springs from the same perennial
root in ture, and even I lengto clothe
t fabulous landscape of my infant dreams, and one of ts
of my presend influence is seen in these bean leaves,
blades, and potato vines.
I planted about two acres and a was
only about fifteen years sihe land was cleared, and I myself
out tumps, I did not give it any
manure; but in t appeared by the
arroination had
aly d ed and beans ere we men came
to clear to some extehe soil
for this very crop.
Before yet any woodche road, or
t above the dew was on,
t it -- I o do
all your work if possible wo level
ty upon
ted, dabbling
like a plastic artist in t later in
tered my feet. ted me to hoe
beans, pag slo yellow gravelly
upland, beteen rods, the one end
terminating in a s in the shade,
the green berries deepened
tints by time I . Removing the
ting fres tems, and encing this
weed ws summer
t in bean leaves and blossoms rathan in wormwood and
piper and millet grass, making tead of grass
-- ttle aid from horses or
cattle, or s of husbandry, I
e han
usual. But labor of to the verge of
drudgery, is per form of idleness. It has a
stant and imperiso t yields a
classic result. A very agricola laboriosus o travellers
bound o nobody knows where;
tting at th elbows on knees, and reins
loosely oons; I taying, laborious native of
t soon my ead of t and t.
It ivated field freat distan
eit of it; and sometimes
travellers gossip and ent
t for ;Beans so late! peas so late!" -- for I
tio plant wo erial
suspected it. ", my boy, for fodder;
for fodder." "Does ; asks t of the
gray coat; and tured farmer reins up eful dobbin
to inquire w you are doing whe furrow,
and reends a little c, or any little e stuff, or it
may be aser. But wo acres and a half of
furro -- there
being an aversion to ots and far
aravellers as ttled by pared it aloud h
t I came to know ood
in tural in Mr. ans
report. And, by timates the crop which
nature yields in till he
crop of Englisure calculated,
tes and tas in all dells and pond-he
ures and ss grows a rid various crop only
unreaped by man. Mine ing liween
ivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others
hers savage or barbarous, so my field was,
t in a bad sense, a ivated field. they were beans
ing to tive state t I
cultivated, and my hem.
Near at opmost spray of a birche brown
to call he
m, glad of your society, t another farmers
field if yours ing the seed, he
cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it
up, pull it up, pull it up." But t , and so it was
safe from suc his rigmarole,
eur Paganini performances oring or on ty, have
to do ing, a prefer it to leached ashes or
plaster. It op dressing in wire
faith.
As I dreill fres th my hoe, I
disturbed tions who in primeval years
lived us of war and
ing of they lay
mingled ural stones, some of whe marks of
he sun, and also
bits of pottery and glass broug cultivators
of tinkled against to music
eco t to my
labor and immeasurable crop. It was no
longer beans t I hoed beans; and I remembered
y as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances
y to attend torios. thawk
circled overernoons -- for I sometimes made a
day of it -- like a mote in the eye, or in heavens eye, falling
from time to time he heavens were
rent, torn at last to very rags and tatters, a a seamless cope
remained; small imps t fill the
ground on bare sand or rocks on tops of hills, where few have
found t up from the
pond, as leaves are raised by to float in the heavens; such
kindredsure. the wave
ed
o tal unfledged pinions of the sea. Or
sometimes I che sky,
alternately s and desding, approag, and leaving one
anot of my os. Or I
tracted by to t,
quivering winnowing sound and carrier e; or from
under a rotten stump my urned up a sluggisentous and
outlandisted salamander, a trace of Egypt and t
our porary. o lean on my hese sounds and
sig of the
inexible eai wry offers.
On gala days tos great guns, which echo like
popguns to tial music occasionally
pee to me, a ther
end of to;
and urnout of w, I
imes of itg
and disease in tion
tina or ker-rasil at length some
more favorable puff of he
ayland road, brougion of t;trainers." It seemed
by tant the
neigils advice, by a faint tintinnabulum
upon t sonorous of tic utensils, were endeav
to call to the sound died
quite a favorable breezes
told no tale, I k drone of them all
safely into t no
on t was smeared.
I felt proud to kno ties of Massacts and of
our faturo my
h an inexpressible fidence, and
pursued my labor crust in ture.
sounded as if all
t bellohe buildings expanded and
collapsed alternately sometimes it was a really
noble and inspiring strain t reacrumpet
t sings of fame, and I felt as if I could spit a Mexi h a
good relisand for trifles? -- and
looked round for a woodco exercise my chivalry
upon. tial strains seemed as far aine, and
reminded me of a marc
tantivy and tremulous motion of tree tops whe
village. t days; the sky had from my
clearing only tingly great look t it wears daily,
and I sa.
It long acquaintance which I
cultivated ing, and hoeing, and
ing, and the
last of all -- I miging, for I did taste.
I ermio know beans. o
ill noon, and only spent
t of t otimate and
curious acquaintanakes
eration in t, for ttle
iteration in turbing te anizations so
rutins h his hoe,
levelling ing
anots Roman s pigs sorrel
-- ts piper-grass -- urn s
upo t let he shade, if you
do urn other side up and be as green as a leek in
t hose
trojans whe
beans sao the
ranks of trench weedy dead.
Many a lusty crest -- towered a w above
.
temporaries devoted to the
fis in Boston or Rome, and oto plation in India,
and oto trade in London or Neher
farmers of o t I ed
beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are
ed, wing, and exchem
for rice; but, perc work in fields if only for
tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day.
It , oo long,
migion. them no manure, and
did not hem unusualy well as far as I
, and in t;trut; as
Evelyn says, "no post or laetation o this
tinual motioination, and turning of the
spade." "t; ;especially if fresh, has a
certain magism in it, by tracts t, power, or
virtue (call it eit life, and is the logic of all
tir it, to sustain us; all dungings and
otemperings being but to this
improvement." Moreover, t; and
exed lay fields erce, as
Sir Kenelm Digby ttracted "vital spirits" from the
air. I ed twelve bushels of beans.
But to be more particular, for it is plai Mr. an
ed cs of gentlemen farmers,
my outgoes were,--
For a hoe ................................... $ 0.54
Plowing, oo much.
Beans for seed ............................... 3.12+
Potatoes for seed ............................ 1.33
Peas for seed ................................ 0.40
turnip seed .................................. 0.06
e line for crow fence .................... 0.02
ivator and boy three hours ......... 1.00
to get crop ................... 0.75
--------
In all .................................. $14.72+
My ine rem familias vendacem, non emacem esse
oportet), from
Nine buss of beans sold .. $16.94
Five"large potatoes ..................... 2.50
Nine"small .............................. 2.25
Grass ........................................... 1.00
Stalks .......................................... 0.75
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In all .................................... $23.44
Leaving a peiary profit,
as I have elsewhere said, of .............. $ 8.71+
t of my experien raising beans: Plant the
all of June, in rohree
feet by eig, being careful to select fresh round
and unmixed seed. First look out for worms, and supply vacies by
planting ane for woodc is an exposed
place, for t tender leaves almost
as tendrils make their
appearaice of it, and will sh
botti like a squirrel. But above
all as early as possible, if you s and
his means.
to myself, I will
not plant beans and ry anot
suc lost, as siy, truth,
simplicity, fait
grooil and manurance, and sustain
me, for surely it been exed for these crops. Alas! I
said to myself; but noher,
and anoto say to you, Reader, t the seeds
ues,
en or tality, and so did not e up.
only men hers were brave, or
timid. tion is very sure to plant and beans each
neuries ago and taughe
first settlers to do, as if te in it. I saw an old
man to my astonis, making th a hoe
for tietime at least, and not for o lie down
in! But ry neures, and
not lay so mucress on ato and grass crop, and
hese? hy ourselves
so muc our beans for seed, and not be ed at all about
a neion of men? e should really be fed and cheered if
o see t some of ties
wher
produs, but broadcast and floating
in taken root and grown in him. here es such a
subtile and ineffable quality, for instance, as trutice,
test amount or ney of it, along the road.
Our ambassadors sructed to send home such seeds as
to distribute the land. e
sand upon ceremony y. e should never
d insult and banishere
t
meet te. Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem
not to ime; t t
deal hus plodding ever, leaning on a hoe or a spade as a
staff betially risen out
of t, like sed and
he ground:--
"And as hen
Spread, as to fly, t;
so t we migh an angel.
Bread may not al al even
takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant,
nize any generosity in man
or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.
A poetry and myt, at least, t husbandry
; but it is pursued e and
being to have large farms and large
erely. e ival, nor procession, nor ceremony,
not excepting our cattle-shanksgivings, by which
the saess of his calling, or is
reminded of its sacred in. It is t
to Ceres and terrestrial
Jove, but to tus rather. By avarid
selfis, from whione of us is free,
arding ty, or the means of acquiring
property che landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded
of lives. ure
but as a robber. Cato says t ts of agriculture are
particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and acc
to Varro t;called ther and Ceres, and
t t tivated it led a pious and useful life, and
t t of turn."
e are tet t tivated
fields and on ts distin. they
all refled absorb a
small part of ture which he beholds in his daily
course. In ivated like a
garden. t of and
rust and magnanimity. though I
value t t in the
year? t so long looks not to
me as tivator, but ao influences more
genial to it, green. these beans have
results grow for
(in Latin spica, obsoletely
speca, from spe, be the
s kernel rain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is
not all t it bears. fail? Shall I
not rejoice also at the
granary of t matters little paratively whe
fields fill true husbandman will cease from
ay, as t no whe woods will
bear uts t, and finish every
day, relinquiso the produce of his fields, and
sacrifig in only but fruits also.
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