The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-08-31
The Thriftless Farmer.

The Fort Wayne Times, gives The follow :
ing ME nke portrait OF ''thriltess far
hier::"
Ills fences are old and poor-just such as
TO let the neighbol's cattle brcak into his
iiel,is and teach his own 10 be unruly, and
spoil his crops.
Tie grazes MS meadows in the IA ] and
spring, by which they are gradually exhau =
led and finally ruined.
lie tis. OF 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, for tine last he ''is
not able " g.
lie has place for nothing and nothing
in It's place. He, consequently, wanIsa hoe
or rake, or hammer. or an auger, but
knows not where to lind Them, and thus los
Is much time.
tie loliers away stormy days and ever
ings when he should be repairing his utcn-
1,ls, on improving his mind by reading use
iul books, or newspapers.
He spends much time in town, at the cor.
Ter Of the street, or in the snak nolcs econ,-
pigining of ''bard times" and goes home in
ihe evening, "prett well tore."y
His pioWs and other implements. lie all
winter in the field where last used: and just
rs he is getting in harry, the next season,
his plow breaks, because it was not housed
and ,propery cared fer.
Somebody's hogs break in. and destroy
his garden, because he had not stopped IA
hole in the fence that he had been intending
10 stop for week.
He Is often in great hurry, but will stop
and talk as long as he can find any one IL
talk with.
He has ofcourse little money; and wher
he must raise some to pay his taxes, DC,
he raises it at great acraiice, in some way
or other, by paying an enormous shave, ol
by sellivg lis scaDty crop when prices are
low.
ne is a year behind, instead of year
ahead of his busness-and. always will
b..
When he pays debt it is at thcss end oi
nm execution; consequently his credit is at a
low ebb.
He buys entirely On credit, and mer'
chants, and all others, Nth whom he deals,
charge INN twice or thrice the profit they
charge prompt ptpaymaster, and are unwilling
to sell him goods at cost. He has to beg
and promise 10 get them on any terms
The merchants dread to see his wife come
into their stores and the.poor woman feels
depressed and degraded.
The smoke begins TO come out OF his
chimney late of winters morning, while his
cattle are suffering, for their mornings feed.
His bars and gaes are broken, his build
mos Imprinted and the boards and shingles
falling of and he has no time to replace
them, the glass is out Of the windows, and
the holes stopped with rags and .old hats,
He negIects his account, land when his
neiglbor calls to settle with him, he has
something else to attend TO.
Heis a great borrower Of his neighbours
implements,i ibut never returns theibomowed
articles, and when it is sent for cannot be
found
He is in person, a great soven,ss ssand new
er attends to public worship, or if he does
occasionally do SO, he comes sneaklng in
when the service is ha f out.
If the printer wants quarter of beef, or
a few bushels OF oats or potatoes, on his bill
our farmer "has none 10 spare y
Talks him all in all, be is a poor farmer. a
poor husband, a poor father, poor neighbor
and poor christian