The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-05-10
THINGS 4 sARnEa sIIoUID NoT %,

THINGS A SARakR SHOULD NOT 10.
A farmer should not break up more
land than be can cultivate thoroughly;
half.tilled land is always growing poor.
CT, while we'll titled land is constantly
improving. A thrifty and prudent
farmer will not devote bis sole atten-
ton 10 the Improvements Of certain
fields on his farm, because the land is
"easy TO work at, and let other por-
lions OF his premises 20 uncultiyated,
and grow nothing bat brush, bogs,
briars and stones. l09ita ins 'o-et
A farmer should never have more
cattle, horses or other animal stock
than he can keep in good order. An
animal in good order at the beginning
of winter is already half wintered.--
Nor should he let bis cattle endure the
chilling storms Of winter in an open
yard or field, whilst few dollars ex.
ponded in the way Of making comfort.
able stables would amply repay him
in saving Of fodder, and afford great
CT umOunI VI mIlR.
A farmer should never depend too
mach on his ncighbors for what he can
by careful management produce on his
own land. He should not make it u
common practice TO either buy or beg
fruit while he can plant trees and cul-
tivate them on his own ground-nor
annoy his neighbors by borrowing tools
to work with, while he can make or
buy them. The borrower is servant
to the lender"
A farmer should never be so i'm
mersed in political matters as to neg
ect doing his various kinds ofwork in
due season, and TO snug up matters and
things for winter; nor should he be so
nattentiye TO politics as to remain ig-
norant Of those great questions Of ma
tional and state policy which will al
ways agitate more or less free people.
A farmer should not be continually
borrowing his neighbor's newspaper,
while he can easily save money enough
by curtailing some little extravaganza,
to subscribe and pay Tor one or moro
of his own.
A farmer should never refuse fair
price for anything lie wishes to SELL
| have known men to refuse a dollar
and half for bushcl of corn and
after keeping il FIVE or six months
they were glad to get a dollar for it
| have known farmers to refuse to take
a fair marketable price for their dali
rics of butter, and after keeping it
three or four months they concluded
to sell the butter for only two-thirds
the price which they were first offered.
ga bird in the Land is worth two in
the bush"
A farmer should not allow his wood.
pile to be reduced down TO the shorts
merely drawing little by piecemeal,
and green at that. lie must expect to
encounter the sour looks OF his wife
and family, and perhaps be compelled
! (in series Of lecturesl to learn that
the man who provides green wood to
burn IL the winter, has not measured
the first rules for domestic economy.
NOT ouOuiu uC Sbh l4'S oVHiO DO'SH
mason to build his chimney upside
down" so that his family will be near
ly smoked out of the house, and the
walls become as yellow as saffron.
A farmer should not lot his build
ings look as old as the hills, and go to
decay, while h, can easily afford the
means to keep them in repair, nor
should he allow tattered cloths and old
hats to be stuffed ir the windows, in
place of glass. Ifhc does, he need not
be alarmed if he acquire the reputation
OF mean man, or one whotarries long
where liquor is sold by the glass.
A farmer should not be contcnted
with dilapidated looking fences on his
farm, so as to tempt his cattle to be-
come unruly and destroy his crops,
while he has plenty of opportunies and
materials to make or keep them in re-
pair Working Farmer.