The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-04-13
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FOR TIE LEDGER


WHATEVER is to be done, should be done
right, applies as well to farm husbandry, rs
any other department of bU sincss. To do
things right requires time but this time is
only the result of the necessity of its being
done, it belongs particularly to the thing to
be done, and is not extra work.
One would suppose from hearing farmers
often say that they have not time to do
particular thing as il should be done wiz
right that there is some half way point,
at which n thing may be done, and that to
take time to do it well, would be to bcstow
something additional upon it.
This not doing things right is great cr-
r"r, which carries along with. it too often
failure and disappointment. 1t is the result
of the want of proper judgment or sufficient
industry. The very necessity for doing any
''""T re1nirHS mat il shnnId 10 ii.
or IN right way. To undertake more than
can bc done right, evinccs want of a prop
cr understanding Of business. No prudent
business man will undertake more than he
has time to accomplish. The Judgment il
however. sometimes overreached, and .neor
cuts are taken. remember on one occa-
sion To have seen farmer plowing his corn.
ana he was doing so with long grab the
corn was about three or four inches hirb
and he put in each row with that long gr.. b.
three tnrrows-the third dividing nearly @.
qually the two furrows. The first furrow
on either side OF the corn, must have been
At least one and n half feet from the young
corn, leaving about three feet of hard ground
across the corn hill. This, then, was the
first working, and was TO stand as such
thought he might rs well have been blowing
in his ncghbor's field, perhaps better, for i,
corn was certainly cheated out of n WORKING
The long grab was II good plow for the oc-
caslon, but 1t was too far off from the corn.
On another occasion, a farmer who had
used the long grab in breaking up and pull
rerlzlng his soil, baying checked off his field
with deep Long Grab furrow, dropped his
corn, and putting manure upon the corn in
the furrow, directed it ali to be planted in
that manner, and as the grouud was cold,
Tor II TO remain uncovered for day or
two, so as to he warmed by the genial rays
oi the sun, then to be covered with two fur
rows, with that same long grab. After the
ilrst days planting, the old man, who did
all things "zdetIy" called up the manure car
rlers, and put them with their hoes TO cover
the corn manure and all On the next day,
the man who wanted to work with the long
grabs, came into the field, and discovered his
manure carriers covering corn with the hoe.
Calling up his old man, he desired to know
why he had not obeycd his orders when he
was told that the mice pere eating up he
corn IN The NIL, and that he had made all The
hands shop" into the field loih their hoes and
corer IL aH"P Here "Long Grabs" was out,
but his corn was in. How the matter will
turn out, is yet to be seen. At all events
the corn was not covered with long grabs.
Whenever things are not done right, if not
from want Of proper understanding, it, then,
is tho result Of want of industry. The law
man never has time to do any thing right
He is always under press, and he never can
ind time to do any thing as it ought to be.
Take time, and What is 10 Je ,.,;,ne let IL be done
right Bearing this always in mind, with
the free use of the Long Grab, and we can
build the Railroad to Camden without fail.
'CoRDING."