The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-06-08

HEADwoRK IN FARMING.-It is surprising
how much muscular labor is wasted every year,
which might be saved or better directed This
is true of all kinds of business and not the least
in farming. For instance how many farmers
toll on year after year, with scanty or imper-
feet implements Of husbandry. The modern
Improvements, which save much labor, and do
the work cheaper and better, they will have
nothing to do with. Improved varieties of seed
they hold to be almost without exception, hum.
bugs. Draining and subsoil blowing are rank
ed in the same catalogue they are labor lost
but manuring cold wet lands, and blowing
+ them late in the summer few inches deep,
and gathering scanty crops-is this not labor
| lost. Rotation Of crops and manurng land
with reference to grain or roots to be grown on
them, they consider something like book farm
ing-a very dangerous thing.
7 We never could see, why farmers should
think for themselves, and be able to give a sa-
I tisfactory reason for every process they under
! take. We never could see why they should
not endeayor to improve in all farming opera
tions, to learn the best way of doing everything.
and then do it So 1t is told of farmer, who
! had not yet found time to clear the stumps from
! his fields, that his boys complained bitterly of
their troubles in plowing and harrowing-the
old fashioned "drag" especially troubled them
by its frequent oYerturning while plunging
among the stumps, and needing to be set right
side up at every rod Boys" said the en-
ragged farmer one day, "take that harrow over
to the blacksmith, and tell him to make all the
teeth twice their present length, and sharp at
both ends, and we II see what that'll do' The
thing was done; the thing was done; the teeth
were pointed both ways, ike those of a revolv-
l,x. tC,.+, II, D.
father, 1t has upset again as bad as before
''Never mind, boy, go right ahead, it will work
we'll either side up. See, now what comes
from little thinkingn' And sure enough, it
/ did work, and the field was narrowed in spite
of the stumps.. We might have selected more
dgnifed example of the use of headwork, but
this homey story will answer our purpose.
In the matter of rotation of crops, there is
need of forethought and management. Some
farmers neglect to manure largely because of
its expensiyeness; they would like to under
drain more extensively, and to subsoil- plow
their lands, if these things DO not cost more
time, labor and money than they can spare
But it costs no more to follow good system of
rotation of crops, than it does to carry on farn
without such plan. Yet such system may
bring the farmer three fold greater and better
crops. Nor in degising such plan, has he got
to depend entirely on his own experience and
sagacity. Books and agricultural journals are
at hand. containing the results of other mems
experience, and all he has to do is to adapt
such information to the wants of his own case.
A very little headwork of this sort would pay
we'll 1t would pay in the increased and pro-
longed fertility of the land, and in more boun-
tifuI crops. American Agriculturst.
A DoLoRoUs BUT GRAPHIC VIEW OF HUMAN
I AFFAIRs.-A correspondent of the Wisconsin
Chief thus sums up the characteristics Of human
existence All confidence is lost between man
and man The bottom has fallen out of every
thing. Shrewd business managers are cheat
ing God in their professions, ana the devil in
/ their bargains. Gingeris made out of mustard
and coffee ont of chickory. Young Hyson is
raised in the COW pasture, and Y oung America
in the dram shop. Pure wines are made of
poor whiskey, and HavannaS Of herbs. Ras-
caIty has become virtue, and rot-gut turned
+ to vinegar. Legislatures are marked as mer-
chants mark goods, and the peoples funds alb
sorbed by s'chartable purposes"
Governors are knocked off for $50, 600; leg
islatures from $4,000 to 500 900 Railroad
stock is down below zero. Caucuses are'packed'
and young men electioneer on tie Sabbath
Fairbanks scale have taken to sWindling, and
old rats selling their tails to spike cannon. Jews
harps are palmed off as harps Of a thousand
strings, democrats as genuine fwubllcans"-
spirits of just men made perfect, Sausages
are adulterated, and tempting links seem to
wag in the most dogged manner. Our terri
tory, as we'll as our crinoline, is definitely ex-
pandng. In fine, there are none truthful save
politicians; none talented but those who make
''on change" of a grocery corner and cheat
out of the needy what they give to the Lord
A writer in Household Words" thus de-
scrbes the personal appearance of Napoleon
Ill: He is grizzled cadaverous, and lame
in the left hip, and labors to conceal this last
defect His walk is awkward. He turns out
his toes, and leans heavily on the strong stick
be carries in his well gloyed hand. He care
fully dressed; but, though his coat fits him very
accurately, he has nothing of the air of per-
fectly-dressed man. His figure is not improv-
ed by the curass which his coat will not con-
ceal Every step he takes is studied while
his eye scans every paSSer-by with look which
has something uncanny in It's expression"
Girls, beware of transient young men. New
er suffer the addresses of a stranger. Recollect
that one good farmers boy, or industrious me-
chanic is worth all the floating fops in the world.
The aIIurements of dandy Jack, with a gold
chain round his neck, a walking stick in his paw,
three penny cigar in his mouth, some hon
est tailor's coat on his back, and brainless.
Up Eile loss
Of a good fathers home, good mothers coun-
sci, and the society of brothers and sisters; their
, affections last, while that of such young
man is lost in the wane of honeymoon. 'Tis
true.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled can Act to in
corporate the Louisiana Central Stem OF the MisSis-
sippi and Pacific railroad company.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the ste of Louisiana in gen
eraI assembly convened That the first section OF sad
ct he amended to read as follows, to-wt: That the
stockholders Of the fousena cenT" Stem ard Of the
Mississippi and Pacific railroad 5 fd SGng ad are neret
under the conditions and limitations and with all the
rights, powers, duties and liabilities recited in their
act of incorporation, and such viii be adopted in
r this act and any subsequent amendment thereto