Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-10-07
Farm and Garden.
Farming and Half Farming.


We have known people ambitious to
make money, who would spare no labors
to increase their income, and when they
had secured it, would spend it to no pur-
pose; waste it, get rid of it they scarcely
knew how, and have nothing to show for
it. They were good to make money, hut
could not keep or use it well. The only
good they could get Of their money was
the doubtful good of ha"ing it pass thro'
their hands. There are many people of
this stamp. They can get business and
do it, can earn great wages, drive and
push through any amount of toll, make
long and close calculations, talk largely
and well enough about business, but can
not increase their own capital. Their
purse Will not hold money. 1t leaks. Ii
seems like the tabled pit, without a bot
tom, or like the miller's dam, whether it
rained much or little, would hold no wa
ter. Or, more likely, they have no purse.
Their money burns their pockets and
hands. They have it spent before it Is
got, or plans on hand for its disposal
Much like this class of people are many
farmers. They can raise good crops, bu!
cannot make them pay. They neglect
their fences, and the cattle break in Just
before harvest; or if they have a good
crop, they have no place to secure it
Fine fields of hay and grain are gather
ed, but there are no barns and granaries
to keep them. The fruit trees yield we'll,
but there are no means fer preserving the
fruit, and it goes to waste. The root
crops are good, but The frost and the win
ter destroy them, because they cannot
bear everything. The farming imple-
ments rot more than they wear, because
the rain and sun are ever pelting and
scorching them. The cows give good
milk, but the want of dairy appliances
makes the milk of but little value. The
pigs are in the corn-crib; the sheep
are in the garden; the kitchen has no
wood, but lives from hand to mouth; the
house has no cellar; the water is far
away. Everything works the hard way.
There Is much done but little saved
When spring comes everything is gone.
! cCCuS VI uIl hllluS IluSL UC DUu0 lit lllG
rotten utensils replaced by new; the bro
/ ken down fences made over; the pealed
and browsed fruit trees replaced by new
and young ones, and a world of labor
/ spent to get the farm into working order
again. So it goes year after year. Much
IS done, but little improvement made
And all the difficulty lies in a want OF
order and taste in the style of farming.
| No man of order or taste Will see gates
/ hanging on one hinge, fences reeling,
everything looking like old chaos of young
ruins. Men of taste will husband we'll
| their farms. And men Of real farming
skill will have arrangements for making
the most of all they get, for saving or
marketing, that nothing be lost. 1t is
farmers losses that keeps them back
And the most of their losses are by their
own negligence or want of skill. There
is much haIf-farming. They waste a
| great deal of labor and time. he art of
keeping everything in order lies in hav-
ing place for everything, and putting
everything in its place when used; in
making repairs when needed in always
putting in all odd moments of time, rainy
days, &c, in making improvements, ar
ranging ConyenienCes, and in getting
ready for the seasons of active labor
Let all half farmers mend their ways as
! fast as possible, so they will mend their
fortunes and all heir temporal interests.
|-ValleV Farmer.