Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-10


III ths tst place. spare no pains to estsbaish for
yourselves good characters for honesty punciu4is
", industry and economy If amaHs credit is gead
and he IS in want, Of the loan of few d0lsrs, to
carry his business to better advantage, he can
readily getit but otherwise the lender will keep
his money and the borrower may do rs he car.
Never make positive promise to pay money, or do
anything else certain day. without some provisp.
Use all endeavors to meet every engagement pune
tually at the time. Avoid as much as possible all
Earring and differences with others If they do arise,
compromise the matter, even at some sacrifice if it
can be done if not, leave it to reference, and
there let it end. Be particularly careful to guard
against being concerned in law suits ;-in most
it is better to give up the claim than 60 to law
about it. is easy to get into the law but often
times very hard and expensive to get out Of it..
If your capital is small, begin business on mod-
crate scale, and as your gains and experience in:
crease, your business may also be increased. Let
specializing very much alone, and be contented with
the slower but more certain profits of regular bus
ness. Avoid entirely all visionary speculative
prospect of rapid accumulations, and making an
independent fortune in short time. But see the re-
suit all piece of deception attended with the loss
of much money and trouble. z..ess !.
If the business is farming have your work SOAR
ranged as to change from one thing to another as
little possible in the same day; do one thing at
time, and that before beginning another; ana al
ways remember that if thing is worth doing at all
it is worth doing well Let there be no hurryng
and driving of hired help, to get as much work as
possible out Of them in day, nor pinch them
down to work for less than common wages; there
is nothing gained by it but the name of close
listed, hard master, and perhaps little addition of
ill.will.
Stay at home and see to the work yourselves, that
it is done properly and in the right time Deal fairly
and pay in cash short credits settle with all
! those you deal with least once in every year.
Keep fair accounts of debt and credit, that you
may know at any time how your affairs are going
on.
If you borrow anything of your neighbor, be care
full that it be not injured, and return it as
you done with it, and make the same terms with
| them when they borrow.
| Be accommodating, for it costs but little remem-
bering that you may yourselves be placed in diff
6culty.
Have a place to put all your tools and implements,
in the day, when not in use and then you will know
| where they are, when wanted to use again. How
often do we pows, harrows, &C., left in the cor.
| ner of the fence where they were last used.
| A man will never make poor farm rich with but
little money, unless these small matters attend
| &c to.
If there should be any new tangled project got up,
and there is hardly year passes without, for
the purpose of improving land. or making money
faster and easier; if you are disposed to try them
at a. do it a small scale, and then if it should
| prove blank as they most commonly do, there will
not be much loss but if it succeeds try it again,
as one experiment in farming operations does not
| establish fact.
approve of farmers trying experiments on a
small SCALE that look likely to be beneficial in rails
ing crops, improving land. There have been
valuable discoveries made thereby, and perhaps as
many others the result of accident
Such has been the experience of one who spent
long life devoted principally to the culture and
improvement Of the land one who practised what
he has laid down in these essays, and whose obser-
vations of the practice of others has confirmed his
belief, that no man will ever make a good farmer
in any other way, save by his own experimental
knowledge.
A PRACTICAL FARMER
| Byberrv, Sd NO., 1853