The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-10-17
The ThriftleSs Farmer.

ioi hlo cdluo uulinS the lnclemency OF The
winter, but permits them to stand shivering
by the side of the fence, or to lie in the
snow, as best suits them
He throws their fodder on the ground, or
in the mud, and not unfrequently he high
way, by which large portion of it, and all
the manure is wasted
he grazes his meadows in fall and spring;
by which they are gradually exhausted and
finally ruined.
His fences are old and poor, just such as
10 let his neighbor's cattle break into his
fields, and teach his own 10 be unruly aud
spoil his crops.
He neglecls 10 keep the manure from
arouud the sills of his barn-if he has one
by which it is prema,urely rotled, and his
barn destroyed
He tills or skins over The surface of his
land until ii is exhausted, but never thinks
1t worth while 10 manure or clover it. For
al first, he has no time, and for the last, he
is not able.
He has place for nothing, and nothing
IN its place. He constantly wants hoe or
rake, or hammer, or an augur, but knows
not where 10 find them, and thus loses
much time.
He loiters away days and evenings, when
he should be repairing his utensils, or i'm,
proving his mind by reading useful books
or newspapers.
He spends much time in town, al the cor
Eer OF the streets, or in the "rum holes, -
complaining of The hard times, and goes
home in the evening "pretty we'll tore"
He has no shed for his fire wood con-
sequently his wife is out of humor, and his
meals out of season.
He plants a few fruit trees, and his cattle
forthwith destroy them. He "has no lack
in raising fruit"
One half of what little he raises is destroy
ed by his own or his neighbor's cattle.
His plow, harrow and ether implements
lie all winter i'll the field where last used
and Just as he is getting in a hurry, the
next season, his plow breaks, because il
was not housed and properly cared for
Somebody's hogs break in and destroy
his garden, because he has not stopped a
hole in the fence that he had been intend.
ing TO stor for a week.
He is often in great hurry, but will stop
and talk as long as he can find any one &c
talk with.
He has, of course, but little money, and
when he must raise some 10 pay his taxes
etc, he raises it at great sacrifice IN some
way or other, by paying an enormous shave,
or by selling his scanty crops when prices
are low.
He is year behind, instead of being a
year ahead OF his ouslue sand always will
be
When he pays debt, it is al the end o
an execution consequently his credit is al
low ebb.
He buys entirely on credit, and merchants
and all others with whom hei.deals charge
him twice or thrice the profit they charge
prompt spaymasiers, and are unwilling to
sell him goods at;any cost. He has 10 beg
and promise, and promise and beg, to ge
them on any terms. The merchants dread
to see his wife come into their stores, and
the poor woman feels depressed and de-
graded.
The smoke begins 10 come out OF hi:
chimney late of winters morning, while
his cattle are suffering for their moming'.
feed.
Manure lies in heaps IN his stable. his
hnr ,,I
harness trod under their feet
His bars and gates are broken, his build
ings Imprinted, and the boards aud shin
giles falling of-he has no time to replace
the holes stopped up with rags and ole
| hats.
He is great borrower of thrifty farmer,
implements, but never returns the borrow
be found.
He is person OF great sloven, and never
attends public worship: or if he does oc
casionaly do so, he comes sneaking in
when service is half over.
He neglects his accounts, and when his
neighbor calls to settle with him he has
something else TO attend 10:
Take him all in all, he is a poor farmer
poor husband, poor father, poor neigh.
Dor, and poor Christian.
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MAEEERs.-Young folks should be man
nerly but how to be,>is the question. Many
good boys and girls feel that they canno,
behave 10 suit themselves in the presence
of company. They are awkward, cIownish
rough. They feel timid, bashful, and self
distrustful, the moment they are addressed