Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-01-07
THE THRlFTLESs FARMER

lfthe winter, but permits them to stand
shiyering by the fence, or to lie in tho
snow, as best suits them. IN
He throws thoir fodder on the ground
or in the mud, and not unfrequently III
the highways by which a large portion
of it, and all the manure. is wasted.
Ho grazes his meadows in the fall
and spring, by which they are gradual
ly exhausted, and finally ruined
His fences are old and sPeor-jus.
such as to let his neighbor's catlc break
into his fields, and teach his own to be
unruly.
He neglec,s to keep themanure from
around the sills of his barn-iihs,hss
one-by which r,hey are prehatlsely
rotted and destroyed.
He tills, or skins over the surface Of
the land until it is exhausted; bhtn
or thinks it worth whils to manure or
clover it. For the first he has no time;
for the last he "is not able"
He has more stock than be has means
to keep we'll.
He has place for nothing, and no.
thing in its place. He consequently
wants a hoe or rake, hammer or an
augur, but knows not where to hsd it.
He and his whole household are IL
search Of it, andsmnsh time is lost.
Heloiters away stormy days and eve.
nings, when he should be repairing
utensils or improving his mind by read
ing the newspapers.
He spends much time in town, at the
corner of the street, or in the "snake.
holess' and goes home pretty well tore
Elephants few fruit trees, and the
cattle forthwith destroy them. He has
mo luck in raising fruit"
He has no shed for his frs.wood; con.
sequen,ly his wife is ut,ofhumor, and
his meals out Of season. "A
His plough, harrow, and ether i'm.
plements. heleaves all winter where he
last used them, andju as he is getting
in a hurry the next season. his plough
breaks, becauseitw was not properly cared
for and housed.
Somebody's pigs break in and dss.
troy his garden, because he had not
stopped a little hole in the fence that lie
had intended to stop for week.
He is often int great hurry, but will
stop and talk as long as he can find any
one to talk with.
He has, of course, little money, and
when lie mus, raise some to pay histax-
es, &C., he raises it at great sacrifice.
in some way er other, either by paying
great shave, or selling his scan,y crops
when prices are low.
He is year behind, instead of being
a year ahead ofhis business, and always
will be.
When he pays debt, it is at the end
ofan execution; consequently his cred
i, is at a low ebb.
He buys entirely upon credit, and
merchants or others with whom he deals
charge him twice or thrice the profit
they charge promp, payers, and are un-
willing to sell him goods at that. He
has to beg and promise, and promise
and beg, to get ,lem~on any terms
The merchant breads 10 see his wife
come into the store, and the woman fsels
depressed and degraded.
The smoke begins to come out Of his
chimney late ofa winter morning, while
his poor cattle are suffering for their
mornings food.
Manure lies in heaps in his stable; his
horses are rough and uncurried, and the
harness trod under their feet.
His bars and gates are broken, his
buildings unpainled, and the boards and
shingles falling ot;-he has no time TO
replace them; the glass is out of tho
windows, and the holes stopped with
rags and old hats.
He is great borrower ofhis, thrifty
neighbor's implements, but never takes
home the borrowed articles; and wbet
they are sent for they can't be found.
His children are late at school, thatia
if they go to school; their faces un
washed, their clothes ragged, theirhai
uncombel, and their BOOKSTORE and dh
ty. sal4
He is, in person, q great sloveh, an
MAYER attends. public worshin---or If h.