The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-03-17
MAXIMS AND PRECEPTs FOR YOUNG
FARMERS.


Regard all persons whose time and labor
are wholly at your command, as beings,
TOR whose health, comfort and good conduct
IN this life, you will be held mos, tear!ully
responsible in the life TO come.
Never forget that both moral and bodily
health depend on the same thing, that it is
temperance in food, drink, and all sensual
nduigeuces and temperance in The use Of
means TO get rich.
Ever bear 10 mind that useful knowledge
aud the proper application Of II, are 10 the
health o! the soul, what wholesome food and
proper exercise are to the health Of the
body.
Value, as you ought, the experience Of
others, and your own will COS, you far less
lhun without such aid /; since 10 use theirs
cost only the effort of memory, whereas the
price paid for your own will often be the
loss Oh health, fortune aud character.
The more you strive 10 enrich your
minds with every good thing which men
aud books Gao teach, the greater will be
your power to obtain wealth, honor, fame
aud every rational enjoyment.
Trust not others TO do for you what you
can readily do for yourselves.
Ii you ever make business of your
pleasures, they will most assureGsy soon
make an end of your business.
AVOID debt as you would pesiilence, for
It humbles, debases and degrades man in
his own eyes subjects him TO insults from
others but siill worse IS perpetual temp.
tation, however anxlously resisted, 10 fraud,
falsehcod and iheit-nay, not untrequently
TO despair, and even self murder.
The only Just and certain means Of in.
creasing wealth, are constant industry
true economy OF lime-as well as money
well directed labor, and the regular appl.
cation of portion OF our profits TO increase
our capital.
Never expect your lands to give YOU
muck, if you give them lille J. nor 10 make
you rich, ii you make them poor. There.
fore, always manure them to the full extent
Of your means, and they will ever make you
ample returns 10 rapidly increasing your
productions.
Economy, not less than humanity, re,
cuires YOU TO keep all your farming stock
in thriving condition; for working ami,
nal IN good order, will do much more work
and eat less than a poor one; while the
rest ofy your stock well kept, will yield more
of every thing, than double their uumber, if
half starved, as such ahlmals often arc.
In all your farming operations, never for
gel that TINE, like money, if once lost or
tnisspent, is for ever past recovery.
Provide a place 10. every thing, and
misplace nothing. No time will ever then
be lost IN searching for what you want.
Never resort to what are called make.
shifts, when it is possible to avoid it; for
they are almost always sure signs.
10 keep good gates and fences, saves
much time aud labor in preventing trespas
ses much loss of crops from depredalons !;
and the best of all, it saves much wranSling
and Ill viii among neighbors, about mis-
chicvous stock.
Encousage both by precept and example,
the true spirit OF husbandry; for 1t pro
notes harmony, good will and social inter
course among all with whom you deal ; II
tends to elevate your own class to It's pro-
per rank; and above all it advances the
welfare OF your country, by promoting the
most important Of all her great interests.
Mover ihtter yourselves, as some silly
people do, that you know all which can DO
known, even 10 the most simple branch OF
! your profession, or you will soon know
much less than thousands Of your more
modest, less assuming brethren. But al
ways act under the firm belief, that there is
no ascertaiuable limit to our acquisitions
in any art or science, whatever nor any
difficulties which constant, dilligent study
canuo. overcome. Your progress then, to,
wards the highest a:tainable point in which
ever you prefer, will be as sure as fate II.
self The accidents and vicissiiudes of life
may possibly interrupt your course; but
only perserere, and you will finally conquer
with absolute certainty, all obstacles that
ore not iusuperable. -Cul'imtor.