The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-02-08
farm and atuusthpId.


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b'oF AL the fhausiridl patsul,s IN which
eHr population are otcnpied, none suffers
80 materially from misnianagoment an1
waste oftinle as farming Almost all other
eaiflngs have ah mvaried routine, and the
machinery moves 30 many hours each dayl
summer or winter, warm or cold, Not 40
with ono who cultivates the soil. No ten.
hour system can succeed on the farm, in
the1ong SIMMER days, when every hour
cohnts, and WHOM the farmer feels that
+" Hiae is money" Whom the foul weed
aud tenacious grasses arc doing their ut
most under a hot suu, to dispute with the
cultivated crops, The pee session Of tho rich
soil1Yhcn the ripened harvest aud the
now rsalo hay are waiting to be housed,
aud tho farmer, the saccesSfW farmer, linls
the day, none Too long from sun to sun"
lie who tills his own acres is, notWith-
etandiug, the most independent, tho most
Fee OF any among "a. Aud this very hce.
dom, may easily, nay often docs, work his
failure. IL you go among tho farmers in
the winter season, you will find they have
plenty ofileisure. True, they have their
ilreshng to attend to, their wood to cut
and perhaps hay to haul home from distant
stacks. But, attending 10 these at their
convenience, much time is lrittered away
jns such q manner as would surely work
ruin in any other pursuit. That the farmer
should have relaxation from his severe la
bore is right aud proper. Aud while others
have their recreatiOns mostly in midsun
imer, he must take his Ia winter. But re-
creation and reasonable enjoyment are no
waste of time. What wo refer to ia spend
ing the days, whole days and half days, ire.
quently without any iorcthough or plin.
and producing no tangible resnlt II any
farmer will make good record at tho olDse
Of each day during tho winter, OF the prob
able nett results OF the dav, he will bo sur.
prised to find how much ho is losing from
nero want of iorotlIpught and plan. Wo
would have our ihrmGr5 ron.vmber that
titne r money, not only in summer but in
winter too. isr
There is muclf' winter work, on almost
every farm, which should be performed
Just as Systematically as the harvests are
gathered in summer. Swamp lands TO bu
cleared mp 10 time but winter is fit for
this, Fuel to be prepared aud stored to
lastlu until smother winter. Fenciug innto
rials to be prepared and distributed, ready
For the opening spring. Supplies of any,
and all kinds, wherewith to replonish the
manure heap, the stable and the pig.sty.
There are fow farms where the materials
Tor the manure anu compost heap may not
be had in abundance for the nero hauling
and every load will make return in gold.
These things shoul DO attended to non,
in the winter. And they should be attend.
ed to systematically. or oil occupations,
that of the farmer requires the most rigid
adherence to rule and this rulo should bo
made TO apply to oil his time, because no
other man is SO free to use his timo as ne
pleases. Let tho work be planned out in
advance planned for fair weather or foul !;
planned SO that every day will tell planned
with view to what will be wanted when
the long sumnerdays come again iplanned
NO that time may bc economical, and not
wasted. ErF