The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-02-26
Time tho Farmers Treasure,


RI There Il no emplo, ment better admitted to
secure the Improvement Of ell ones time,
particularly Of those fragments which are 80
often unimproy ed, than that Of the farmer
There are many occupations in which time Is
necessarily lost to the occupation itself, be-
cause Of bindrances which, 10 stopping one
part. stop all. There are intervals in most
persons business which cannot be filed up
with any thing pertaining to the business IT.
self, because the main thing to be done Is it.
slf almost the only thing. 1t Is true thatno
man, whatever his occupation, need waste
any portion Of time, however small, for he
can employ Il 10 thousand things which will
promote his lappiness AID elulness, though
not bearing dlrtc ly upoa his main object ofI
pursuit. He can have always at hand a book,
or subject Of study to engage his thoughts
when the, are Temporarily rrs ,sed from daily
business. But there are few who can, like the
f,rnior, employ even the frsgm, nts, in the
details Of that which is emphaically the
business Of their lives. The isrmer's bust
ness is one Of times and seasons, and to every
thing 10 the farmers life there Is time, and
for every time, every day in the year-there
Is something which not only can be done, but
must be done. IL wi not do then for the
farmer, Of all men, to put off till to morrow
what can be done to day, for tomorrow will
certainly bring enough to be done. We have
heard farmers complain of this, and say that
tbey were the only men who were dru1ges,
always having something to do, while many
others, is stopped in the Ierst cution OF their
daily business, were stopped alt gether, hav.
ing no Incidental m tiers 10 astenl to, and
~ for TN "a ie farI
s from being true, for many classes OF persons,
as editors, physicians, DC. never have an
hour they can call their own. But it it we're
true, and so far as it is true, it shows clear
advantage on the part Of the farmer. If the
carpenter or the mason is stopped for day
Z or two in his work, be must lose the time. as
Is. as b.: earnings are concerned. And this
II often serious loss, for though il is true he
may improve the time in study and other
! useful ways, yes it may be that he can i'll az
ford the consequent diminution in his earnings.
Yet il is very seldom that he can turn his
hand to any thing else with any profit
Generally the most that he can do is to per-
form any little household job which perhaps
Il he might have had to hire another TO do, if
LIE had been employed at his own work.
% But the farmer can never be at q loss for
work adapted to the very time which the
Necessity of dscontinuing some other work
I'd has render vacant. He has but to step out
Of bis door, and cast his eye over his domain
fences down. doors off ihefr hef aitsnssd HihSss to- It
evsporating in the sun, as he cin see Every
day in the year upon the farm of his neigh
(. Dor, who has adopted the principle of never
doing to-day what can possibly be put off till
3. to,morrow, But his experienced eye will de-
tct the symptoms Of decay, he will see where
things are just beginning to go wrong. as
things are constantly beginning to do in this
world, and he will remedy the mater at once.
There is no greater mistake than to suppose
that when the farmer is prevented BY the
weather from out door work be has nothing
else to do. He can always find something to
do in the barn, the stable, the granary, or the
tool-shop where he has laid up some nice sea-
soned hickory, and ash for extra hoe handles,
axe helves, teeth for rakes, OF yokes, &c,
for It is very easy for him with few good
tools, to make these things, and much better
ores than he can buy and then how much
time 10 saved by having such things ready
when they are wan ed. so that i'm port n work
may not be delayed by sentiug a man on
horseback three miles TO get a new implement,
or waiting half day to have the old one
mended. A great deal Of the farmers work
Is that Of preparation, and these pre- parations
are SO various that he may easily choose his
ewn time for many Of them. In ano,her inn
portant respect is Time the farmers treasure.
he can. and in fact usually does. use the same
Time several times over. While he is cutting
his hay, his wheat is ripening while he is
hauling his manure, his cattle are fatte,,ino
while he is making his fences, his chestnut
rails are growing. Nature. or, we would
rather say, Providence, Is all the time doinu
his work for him. All be has to do is to cut
out work for the rain and sun and atmosphere
10 do, How ungratefnl in him to grumble i'll
sometimes these powerful and bene icent
agents, in accomplishing other more impor-
tant purposes of the Almighty. destroy his
crops. Nor is there, Lotwthstan ling what
We have said, any man who has more time
to spare for social intercourse anil Intellectual
improvement, than the farmer who makes it
point to let nothing &c: behindhand. While
a other men. however Industrious they may be,
ind their business constantly making greater
demands upon them, he can at almost auy
time, with safety, leave his farm for a few
days. Things cannot go very far wrong for
that space Of time, when they have SO uni.
iormly been made to go right and bis first
business when he returns will be to see if ey-
cry thing is right. Thus we contend that the
farmer can, il he will, make more of his time
than any other man, not excepting a WALL
street broEer.-[B B.. in Country Gentleman.
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