Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-03-12
PhysiologicaI Farming.

Michael Sullivant owns and has paid for,
ore hundred thousand acres of land, near
Homer, Illinois. lie keeps a large amount
ofmoney always on hand, to pay his work
men at the end of every week. They take
their breakfast at half past five in the
morning, and ride to the place of work
They dine at noon, their dinners being
brought to them. They quit work at sun
down, and ride home. In this short mar
ration, there is knowledge of physiology,
of body and mind, which is highly credita
BILE TO the Napoleon of farmers.
The land having been paid for, saves an
immense amount of up hill, hard, dragging
WORK. To have to pay cut any coasidera
able part of farm earnings for enting inter
est. even at six per ct, and every once in a
while an installment of the purchase mon
ey, instead Of being able to expend these in
substantial improvements, In The purchase.
Of fertilizers and labor saving machines,
such as McCormick's Reaper, and grain
sower and the steam pillow, make the cult
Walton of the soil, in innumerable cases, q
literal galley life. By this same course,
many an honest, industrious, and ambitious
farmer has worked himself to death, before
he lived ont half his days.
To farm" pleasantly and successfully,
not only must the land be paid for, but
liberal amount Of motley should be on hand
to meet emergencies, and pay the laborers,
always, promptly, in full, at the hour, and
to the last cent in money. Such course
will always secure the best hands at the
lowest prices; and it keeps the men thus
avoiding improbable and troublesome
changes and if unavoidable circumstances
compel them to leave, they leave with a
kindly feeling, and will not fail to recon.
mend others to fill their places; hence, such
a farmer is everywhere well spoken of, at
all times his pick and choice of hands, and
more, he will get more work out ofhis men,
for knowing that their pay is always in
full, and at the hour, they have the strong
est stimulus to make an effort to retain
their places, and to do their work we'll ;
and by doing it cheerfully, they perform a
great deal more work in given time.
They take their breakfast early in the
morning before they go to their work, thus
preventing the inevitable exhaustion which
results from working several hours on an
empty stomach and besides, largely con-
tributing to the prevention of fever and
ague, by fortifying the stomach against the
morning miasma, which always abounds
in fiat and fertile countries, causing innu.
merahle cases of chills, fever, diarrhmas
| and dysenteries.
Another little item merits attention.
The workmen are not allowed to waste
their early strength by walking mile or
more TO their places of work; means are
provided for riding there, so as to enable
them to commence work with the full
stock of strength secured by the rest of the
night.
The same husban ling of the energies
against useless waste is looked to in hav-
| ing their dinners carried to the workmen ;
and then, when quite enough wearied by
| the legitimate luLors of the day they ride
! home 50 as to prevent that exhaustian, that
over fatigue which walk OF mile or two
or three, would otherwise occasion, and
which would have to be substracted from
the strength of the next day. For let US
all remember, that the overwork of to day
| is but draft on to morrow, and which
must be paid" infalli5ly, and to the
utmost iarthing.
| 1t is pitiful to think of unrequited toll; of
/ unavalling labor, of squandered strength ;
I OF wasting, wearing care, and of the unsuc-
! cessful lives, which every year witnesses,
! by the unwisdom of men in owning more
land than they have paid for, Or can thor
oughly and easily cultivate.
| In any given case, man who has paid
for his ten-acre farm, and always has mon
! ey on hand, without owing a dollar, to pay
his workmen, and to take advantage Of
/ passing circumstances. will live longer
more happily, more usefully and success
fully, than his neighbor, who works harder
by many fold, in cultivating ten times the
amount of land, yet unpaid FOR, who is al
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