Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-07-24
Honse, Gaydsn and far,tt
Thirty six Maxims for Far.
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mendations, by the agricultural press
l. Never get in debt when you can.
. not see your way out again; when you
owe, pay as fast as you can, and prompt.
; ly.
2. Never enlarge your farm when half
of what you now own is not cultivated.
3. If you own more land than you
can till well, are in debt, or need funds
to make necessary Improvements, sell part
OF your farm and use the money to pay
your debts and make your improvements.
A.. Never borrow money to build q
snowy house, when a less pretentious one
would answer better and never lend
money when you have undrained or poor.
y titled land to improve.
B. Lay out system of improvements
for your farm and buildings, and as your
means permit, carry these plans out.
=. Do not enter upon speculation with
other peoples money, or your own, unless
you see clearly that you will make profits;
and even then do not do it to the neglect
Of your farming.
I. Do not mortgage your farm for
money to buy goods; very few men can
enter the mercantile business without
training for it, and not become bankrupt.
8. Do not buy fancy stock and pay
fabulous prices, on the spur of the mo.
ment, or without knowing why you want
it, and how you are to make the invest
mcnt profitable.
o. Do not keep poof stock when you
can keep good at the same expense, and
with four times the profit.
10. Do not change your kind of farm
ing, because what you raised this year is
low priced, for that which is hig Oh +; ten
chances to one your crop will be up next
year, and that which is up now will be
down then.
II. Do not try to grow those crops
for which your farm is not well adapted.
Il. If you have good location, do
not sell out expecting to better it, because
you are offered good price,
IL. Do not change farms often, for
BY 50 doing you can carry out no definite
system Of improvement.
il. Do not begin to improve till YOU
have general plan of what you wish to
do; to do so would be like commencing
to get cut timber for house before yon
know its length and BREADTH
15. Unless your crops are good ones.
sow less and plow better.
16. BE present with your hands as
much as possible, otherwise little work
will be done, and that poorly. No busi-
ness requires the masters oversight more
than farming.
Il. Cultivate a little well rather than
much poorly. Who does not remember
the story of a f,rmer who had two daugh-
ters2 When the first one married he
gave her one-third of his vineyard, and
yet he had as many grapes as formerly
the second married, she took kalf of the
remainder for her portion, and vet the
yield Of the fathers share was not lessen.
cd.
IS. Keep ahead Of your work, or your
work will keep ahead of you
10. Resolve that your farm shall be
i profitable one, if Industry aud good
management: will make it so.
20. Invest your surplus earnings in
making such improvements as will add to
the profit, appearance and convenience vf
your farm.
2l. When you make experiments, see
that you keep within the laws of nature.
These are the farmers helps; make such
experiments as appear to be reasonable,
no matter what your neighbors say.
% BE kind to those you employ, and
to all the animals you work.
%. Sell your produce when prices are
high, and if you do not need the money
keep 1t when they are very low, unless it
IS certain they will remain so.
u. Make yourselves thoroughly ac-
quaintod With the principles OF agricul-
ture, AMI be guided by them.
y. Perform all labor at the right
season.
26. Do all jobs in the best manner.
~. When you begin one piece of work
finish it before you commence another.
2S. Do not leave work half done, ex-
pecting to finish it next year; finish as
you 60.
-. Take care Of your tools when you
get through using them. and do not work
with peer ones when you can afford good
ones.
80. Do not buy old wagons, harnesses
plows, &c, at auction, because you can
get them cheap. Better expend the mon-
ey for books, travel, or some needed im-
proyement.
81. Do not keep more stock on your
farm than you have plenty of pasture for.
81. If at forty-Gye you have fair
property, do not work with your muscles
so hard as formerly, bat save the after
noon Of each day Tor mental aud social
improvement. !.
53. Give your childfen good edu.
cation, physically, intellectually, morally
and socially.
81. Take an interest in all improve
ments that have bearing on agriculture.
%. Ose machinery and horse power,
where possible, instead Of your own mus
clcs.
81, In all YOU do ondcavor to get
hold Of the long end OF the lever, instead
Of the short one, If ycu would work to
advantage.