Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-08

ADVICE TO FARMRRs.-Jacob Strawn
g said to be the most extensive and
,ucceesful farmer in Illinois, though /,
not doingse much now as formerly
He gives the following advice to farm.
When you wake up, do not roll over,
but roll OUT twill give time to ditch
all your sloughs, and break them up,
and harrow them, and SOW them with
timothy, and asman portion Of red clo-;
yer with it. One bushel of clover to
ten Of the timothy is sufficient, Make
your fence high, tight, and strong, SO
that it will keep your cattle and pigs
out. If you have brush, make your
fence secure. And be sure to keep the
pigs and hogs from the cattle; for if
the corn is clean they will eat it much
better than il 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 spend
ing your time in town, sitting on the
store boxes, and whiting all the soft
wood up, instead Of leaving it to kin
die fires with, so that they can get to
business, ~ - -.s.''-,g ~ ~, la j.,
Be sure you get your hands to bed
early, and they will have to rise early
by the force Of circumstances. Pay q
hand-if he is poor hand-all you
promise him if he is good hand, pay
. little more ; it viii encourage him to
do little better. When I was young
er, and employed great many hands
q have employed over two hundred a
day., l made it universalrule, 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
. good young man much. Always
feed them as we'll as you feed your
selves, for the laboring men are the
hope and sinew Of the world, and ought
to be well treated. All our wealth and
fine chothes 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 get
! up, help prepare tho breakfast; wash
the dishes, and sling the pots around,
not DO as to over-strain themselves, they
would be much more healthier, more
handsome, and get better husbands.
lam satisfied that getting up early.
industry and regular habits are the
best medicines ever prescribed for
health: Look at our general land sur
veyors, when FIRST running off the land
| in the West, wading in water from the
shoemouth to the waist, at night max
ing calculations, keeping their minds
employed, were all well and hearty,
while the hands employed in carrying
the chain, when they had nothing to do,
laid down and died like rotten sheep.
! When did you ever know General in
an army who was a man, but who was
at his post when duty called for it, in
good health Look at our neighbors
in the spring, about the time that their
corn should be planted. They get in
a hurry, getting harness, ploWs and
almost everything belonging to their
! business, busting around going to mill,
getting q part Of a load Of wood at a
time, and not enough to haul a full
load at q time-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 the doctors. When it comes
rainy, bad weather, SO you cannot pillow,
cut and split your wood. Make your
rakes when itrains hard, cleaning your
stables or fixing something indoor that
you might have to stop the pillow to fix
| in good weather. d Aaysa