Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-04-08

THE THREFFLEss FARMER.


for his cattle during the. inclemency of the
winter; but permits them to stand shivering
by the side of the fence, or to lie down in
the snow as best suits them.
He throws their fodder on the ground or
in the mud and not unfrequently in The high
way, by which large portion of it, and all
the manure, are wasted.
He grazes his meadows in the fall and
spring, by which they are gradually exhaus-
ted and finally ruined. ~s~s~ ts285a
His fences are old and poor-iust such as
to let his neighbor's cattle break into the
fields and teach his own to be unruIy.
He neglccts to keep the manure from
around the sills of his barn--if he has one
by which they are prematurely rotted and
his barn destroyed. Il II III .
He tills or skins over the surface of his
land, until it is exhausted, but never thinks
it worth while to manure or clover it. For
the first he has no time, and for the last he
is not able
He has more stock than he has means to
keep well.
He has place for nothing and nothing
in its place. Consequently he wants hoe or
where to find it. He and his whole house
hold are in search of it, and much time is
lost.
He loiters away stormy days and evenings
when he should be repairing his utensils or
improving his mind by reading.
He spends much time in town, at the cor
ners of the streets, or in the "shake holes, y
complaining of "hard times" and goes home
in the evening, pretty we'll store"
lie plants few fruit trees, and his cattle
forthwith destroy them. He "llas no lnck'
in raising fruit.
One half of the little he raises, is destroy
ed by his own or his neighbours cattle.
He has no shed for his firewood, conse-
quently his wife is out of humor and his
meals out of season.
His pillow, drag and other implements, lie
all winter in the fields where last used, and
just as he is getting in a hurry next season
his pillow breaks because it was not housed.
Somebody's hogs break in and destroy his
garden, because he had not stopped hole
in the fence which he had been intending to
stop for week.
lie is often in great hurry, bnt will stop
and talk as long as he can find any one to
talk with.
He has Of course little money, and when
he has to raise some to pay his taxes, he raj
ses it at great sacrifice in some way or 9th
er-either by paying an enormous shave, or
by selling his scanty crop when prices are
low. fsEE#
He is year behind, instead of being a
year ahead of his business, and always will
b..
When he pays a debt, it is at the end of
Al execution; consequently his credit is at a
low ebb.
He buys entirely on credit, and merchants
and all others with whom he deals, charge
him twice as much profit as they charge on
prompt payments, and are unwilling to sell
him goods at that. He has to beg and pro-
mise and promise and beg, to get them on
any terms. The merchants dread to see his
wife come into their stores, and the poor wo-
foels deProoood and degraded.
The smoke begins to come out of his CHM
ney late of winters morning, while his cat
tie are suffering for their mornings feed.
Manure lies in, heaps in his stable, his hor-
SEES are rough and uncurried and his harness
ses trod under foot. :.. -.. s.-...
His bars and gates are broken, his build
ings implanted, and the boards and shingles
failing; he has no time toreplace them; the
glass is out of the windows and the holes
stopped with rags and old hats.
lie is great borrower of his thrifty neigh
boris implements, but never returns the Dor
rowei article, and when it is sent for, it can't
be found
His children are late at school-that is if
they 60 to school-ther clothes ragged their
faces unwashed, their heads uncombed, and
their books torn and dirty.
lie is, in person, a great sloven, and never
attends public worship, or if he does occa-
sionally do so, he comes sneaking in when
the service is half out.
If the printer wants quarter of beat, or
few bushels of oats, or corn, or potatoes on
his bill, our farmer has none to spare.
Take him all in all, he is poor farmer, a
poor husband, poor father, poor neighbor,
a poor citizen, poor Christian, and a poor
devil, any way you can take him. ...
On some subsequent day we may attempt
to portray the indications of poor house
keeper.