Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-11-26
TIE THn1rr1Ess F,RMrR.


The thriftless farmer provides no shelter for his
cattle during the nclemency of the winter but per
mits them to stand shiveriHg By the side of fence
or lie in the snow, as best suits them.
He throws them their fodder on the ground or
in the'mud, and not frequently in the highway, by
which large portion Of it, and all the manure,
are wasted.
He grazes his medows in the fall and spring, by
which they are gradually exhausted and finally ru-
ined. -. -.-.- .-.... .'.-.-,
His fences are old and poor, Just such as to let
his neghbor's cattle break into his field, and teach
his own to be unruly and spoil his crops. y, ,,-7
He neglects 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.
He tills, skins the surface of his land, Un
til it is exhausted: but never thinks it worth while
to manure or clover it. For the first, be has no
time, and for the last he @s not able ..-
He has place for nothing, and nothing in ist
place. He consequently wants hoe or rake, or
a hammer, or an auger, but knows not where to
find and thus loses much time -...,..-i
He loiters away stormy days and evenings,
when he should be repairing his utensils, or i'm
proving his mind by reading useful books or news
papers ,-...l... -. s47 80 Is ga ,
the street, or in the rum holes" complaining of
hard times and goes home in the evening -pretty
well tore" sEJ5 s.-U
He has no shed for his ire-wood; consequently
bis wife is out of humor, and his meals out Of sea-
son. ..t IL .-.s5y--.. a-rg- .. u.s s..,...s q ,
He plants few fruit trees, and his cattle forth
with destroy them He has no luck IN raising
| fruit" d. -.-- ..fs.-. y. .-7aae.T,
One-half the little he raises is destroyed BY his
| own or his neighbors cattle. -.r.s7g al ),
His plow, harrow, and other implements he all
winter in the field where last used; and just as be
| is getting in hurry, the next season, his PloW
breaks because it was not housed and properly
| cared for. . F.. --.-s.. e. --.s-5 5.sf IL.
Somebody's hogs break in and destroy his gar
den, because be had not stopped a hole N the
! fence that he had been intending to stop lor
| week. -1e # u ..f..T a.. ..-...-.. ..5 .,
He is often in great hurry but willstop and
| talk as long as be can find any one to talk with.
/ He has, of course, little money; and when BE-
must raise some to pay his taxes, &C., he Esises i
| at great sacrifice, in some way or other, by pay
ing an enormous shave, or by selling his scauty erol
| when prices are low. -1--... T.. ..-.--.r .s..-..
He IS year behind, instead of being q year a
head of his business-and always viii be, -5.
When be pays debt, it is at the end of an ex
ecution; consequently his credit is at a very los
ebb. Z. -i--sa vtz2 ~ la -.u-LE uI-cH
He buys entirely on a credit, and merchants an,
all OtheSs with whom he deals charge him twice o
thrice the prophet they charge prompt paymasters
and are unwilling to sell him goods atany cost
He has to beg and promise, aud promise and beg
to get them on any terms The merchants drea
to see his wife come into their stores, and the poo
woman feels depressed and degraded % s,.s
The smoke begins to come out oil DIS cnlnlle,
late of winters morning, While ms catte arc SU
fering for their mornings feed --L BIZ. sH ..
Manure lies in heaps in his stables his horses ar
rough and uncurried, and his harness trod unde
their feet -..s5- Be-. z.i,l4 ,.1y ., $50
His bars and gates are broken, his buildings IN
nainted, and the boards and shingles falling of-h
has no time to replace them-the glass is out G
the windows, and the holes stopped with rags an
, old hats. . 1. -.y-T 5..-.., ....l5 -, +.
: implements, but never returns the borrowed art
Gle, and when it is sent for it can't be found.
He is, in person, great sloyen, and never a
tends public worship; or if he does occasionally {
SO, be comes sueaking in when the service is ma
out.
He neglects his accounts, and when his neighb'
calls to settle with him, he has something else
, | attend to. ~
Take him all in all, he is a poor farmer, a poo
1 | husband, poor father, poor nelghoor' ana
poor Christian.-[ Farmsrs' Magazine.