Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-09-05
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A Turiffless Farmer.

for his cattle daring the inclemency of the
winter, but permits them to stand shivering
by the side of the fence, or te lie il The snow
as best suits them.
He throws their fod Ter on the ground, or
ia the mud, and not unfrequently 10 the high
way, by which large portion of it, and all
the manure is wasted.
He grazes his meadow in the fall and spring
by which they are gradually exhausted and
finally ruinea-
His fences old and poor, just such as to let
his neighbor's cattle break into his fields, and
teach his own to be unruly and destroy his
crops.
His neglect to keep the manure from around
the slls of his barn if he has one-by which
they are pTematurely rotted, aud his barn de-
strvyed.
He tills or skins over the surface of his
land until it is exhausted, but never thinks it
worth while to manure or clover it. For the
first. he has 10 time, and for the last, &c is
not able
He has place for nothing, and nothing in
its place. lie constantly wants hoe or rake
or hammer, or auger, but knows not
where to find them, and thus loose much
time
He loiters away stormy days and evenings,
when he should be repairing his utensils, or
improving his mind by reading useful books
or newspapers.
He spends much time in town, at the cor
ner of the streets, or in the rum holes"
complaining of the hard times, and goes home
in the evening pretty well tore"
He has no shed for his fire. wood; conse-
quently his wife is out of humor, and his
meals out of season
He plants few fruit trees, and his cattle
forthwith destroy them. He has no luck
in raising fruit"
One half of what little he raises is destroy
ed by lis own or neighbor's cattle.
His plow, harrow and other implements
lie all winter in the field where last used; and
just as he is getting in hurry, the next sea-
son, his plow breaks because i: was not hous-
ed and properly cared for.
Somebody's hogs break in and destroy bis
garden, because he has not stopped hole in
the fence that he had been intending to stop
for week.
He is often in great hurry, but will stop
and talk as long as he can find any one to
talk with.
He has Of course, but little money. and
when he must raise some to pay his taxes,
ect 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
year ahead of his business-and always will
be-
When he pays debt, it is at the end of an
execution; consequently bis credit is at q low
ebb
He buys entirely on credit, and merchants
and all others with whom he deals charge him
twice or thrice the profit they charge prompt
paymasters, and are unwilling to sell him
goods at any cost. He has to beg and prom
Use, and promise and beg, to get them on sny
terms. The merchants dread to see his wife
come into their stores. and the poor woman
feels depressed and degraded.
The smoke begins to come out of his chin
ney late of winters morning, while his cat
tie are suffering for their mornings food.
Manure lies in heaps in his stable, his hor-
ses are rough and uncurried, and his harness
trod under their feet
Ills bars and gates are broken, his bull
dlngs unpainted, and the boards and shingles |
falling of-he has no time to replace them
the glass is out of the windows. and the holes |
stopped with rags and old hats
He is great borrower of thrifty neiebbors |
implements, but never returns the borrowed |
article, and when it is sent for, it can, be |
found
lie is In person great sloven, and never
attends public worship; or if be does. occs-
sonally do SO, he comes sneaking in when
service is half over.
He neglects his accounts, aud when his
neighbor calls to settle With him he has some.
thing to attend to-
Take HIM all in all, he is a poor farmer. a
poor husband, poor father, poor neigh.
Dor, and poor Christian