Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-10-12
Advice to Farmers.

Jacob Strawn is said to be most extensive
and successful farmer in Illinois, though mol
doing so much as formerly. He gives the
following advice to farmers:
When you wake up, do not roll over, but
roll out. 1t will give you time to ditch all
your sloughs, and break them up, and harrow
them, and SOW them with timothy, and small
portion of red clover with it. One bushel oi
clover to ten of the timothy is sufficient. Make
your fence high, tight and strong, so that ii
will keep your cattle and pigs out If you
have brush, make your fence secure, and be
sure to keep pigs and hogs from the cattle
for if the corn is clean they will eat it much
better than if it is not. Study your interest
closely, and do not spend one.twentieth part
of your time in electing Presidents, Senators,
or small officers, and talking Of hard times
while spending your time in town, sitting on
the store boxes, and whiting all the soft
wood up, instead of leaving 1t to kindle fires
with, so that they can get to business.
Be sure to get your hands to bed early, and
they will have to rise early by the force Of
circumstances Pay hand-if he is a poor
hand-all you promise him; if he Id good
hand, pay little more; it will encourage
him to do little better. WhenI was younger
and employed great many hands q have
employed over two hundred day. made
it universal rule, all the time, to pay good
hands more than promised them. thought
it brought me more interest than any money
I ever handled. Extra pay is appreciated by
a good young man much. Always feed them
as we'll as you feed yourselves, for the labor
ing men are the hope and sinew Of the world,
and ought to be well treated. All our wealth
and fine clothes come by hard labor. Our
best girls, if they would 60 to bed three
hours earlier than their usual time, and get
up two hours sooner, which would give them
one hour more sleep than they now have, and
when they did getup, help prepare the break
fast, wash the dishes, and Bling the pots
around, not SO as to oyer-strain themselves,
they would be much more healthier, more
handsome, and get better husbands.
I ain satisfied that getting up early, indus.
try and regular habits, are the best medicines
ever prescribed for health. Look at our gen.
eral-land surveyors, when fist running off
the land in the West, wadng in water from
the shoe mouth to the waste, at night making
calculations, keeping their minds employed,
were all well and hearty, willie tue hands
employed in carrying the chain, when they
had nothing to do, laid down and died like
rotten sheep. When did you ever know OF a
General in an army who was man, but who
was at his post when duty called for it, in
good health2 Look at our ncighbors in the
spring, about the time that their corn should
be planted. They get in hurry, getting
harness, plows aud almost everything be-
longing to their misunderstanding around,
going to mill, getting part of u Load Of wood
at time, and not enough to haul full load
at tilnc-they are SO extremely hurried to
get their corn planted
If they would keep at work all the season,
we would starve the lawyers and whip tho
doctors When it come rainy, bad weather,
so you cannot plow, cut and split your wood.
Make your rakes when it rains hard, cleaning
your stables or fixing something indoors that
that you might have to stop the plow to fix
in good weather