Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-09-10
MISCELLAN NE0US.
The ThrifiIcss Farmer.


the inclemency of the winter; but permits
them to stand shivering by the side of n
fence, or lie in the snow as best suits them.
lie throws their fodder on the ground,
or in the mud and not unfrequently in the
highway; by which large portion of 1t,
and all the manure is wasted.
lie grazes his mcdows in the fall and
spring, by which they are grudully exhaust
ed and finally ruined.
His fences are old and poor--just such
as to let his neighbor's cattle break into
his field, and teach his own to be unruly,
and spoil his crops.
He neglects to keep the manure from
around the slls of his barn. if he has one, by
which they become prematurely rotten and
the barn destroyed
He tils, or skins over the surface of
the land, until it is exhausted, but never
thinks it worth while to manure or clover
it. For the first, he has no time, for the
last he "is not able"
He has place for nothing and nothing
in its place. lie consequently wants hoe
or rake or a hammer, or an auger, but
knows not where to find them, and thus
loses much time.
He loiters away stormy days and eve-
nings when he should be repairing his
utensils or improving his mind by reading
useful books or newspapers.
lie spends much time in town nj the
corner of the street, or in the "snaie holes"
complaining of hard times, and goes home
in the evening, pretty well tore.
He has no shed for his fire wood-con-
sequently his wife is out of humor, and his
meals out of season.
He plants few fruit trees, and his cat
tie forthwith destroy them. He has no
luck in raising fruit.
One half of the little he raises is des-
troyed by his own or his neighbor's cattle.
His plow, drag, and other implements, lie
all winter in the field where last used; and
Just as he is getting in a hurry, the next
season, his plow breaks, because it was
not housed and properly cared for.
Somebody's hogs break in, and destroy
his garden, because he had not stopped
hole in the fence, that he had been intend
ing to stop for week.
He is often in a great hurry, but will
stop and talk rs long as he can find any
one to talk with. =
He has, of course, little money; and
when he must raise some to pay his taxes,
&c, he raises il at great sacrifice, in
some way or other, by paying an enor-
nous shave, or by selling his scanty crop
when prices are low.
lie is a year behind insead Of being a
year ahead of his business-and always
will be-
When he pays debt it is OF the end of
an execution; consequently his credit is at
low ebb.
He buys entirely on credit, and mer-
chants aud all others with whom he deals,
charge him twice or thrice the profit they
charge prompt paymasters, and are un-
willing to sell him goods at any cost. lie
has to beg and promise, and promise and
beg, to get them on any terms. The mer-
chants dread to see his wife come into their
stores, and the poor woman feels depress-
ed and degraded.
The smoke begins to come out of his
l'iNf VI a nIlil'i MlllIt
his cattle are suffering for their mornings
feed.
Manure lies in heaps in his stable; his
horses are rough and uncurried, and his
harness trod under their feet.
His bars and gates are broken, his build
ings unpainted, and the boards and shin
giles falling of--he has no time to replace
them-the glass is out of the windows. and
the holes stopped with rags and old hats.
He is great borrower Of his thrifty
neighbor'S implements, but never returns
the borrowed article, and when it is sent
for, 1t can't be found.
lie is in person great sloven, and nev-
er attends public worship, or if he does oc-
casionally do so, no comes sneaking in
when the service is half out.
He neglects his accounts, and when his
neighbor calls to settle with him he has
something else TO attend to.
Take him all in all, he is poor farmer,
poor husband, and a poor father, poor
neighbor, and a poor Christian.-Fort
Wayne Times.