Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-02-21
A Better Glass of Labor
. q Needed ON n Farm.

One of the bad things about farming
Is the want of intelligent, trusty and
reliable help. The farmers OF New
York are throwing away large sums OF
money upon labofers, not one I'm ten of
whom can do the ordinary, work OF the
farm, except under careful and minute
supervision. We have laborers who
demand and are paid enormous wages
that cannot handle an axe, q plow, or
do any farm work skillfully. Many OF
them do not understand the care OF
stock, nor even how to harness or use a
team properly. They may be willing
to work, but cannot set themselves
about it. They have no economy.
They are constantly breaking and des-
troying every class OF tools and imple-
ments put into their hands, not, per.
haps, from any willful Intention, but
from ignorance in handling, or from
sheer thoughtlessness. We hire labor
ers with plenty of muscle, but with a
limited supply of brains. These last
are cultivated in solving, the problem
as to how much money can be- taken
out of the farmer by the greatest
understood tiIat the farmer must be
ing them i'm the field, or he cannot farm
to the best advantage. Fifteen years
ago native laborers coulc be eThired who
knew how work should be performed,
who could be sent out In tlie woods to
cut and haul timber, or to plow, to SOW,
to reap, TO build fences, and it would be
done ia the pest manner. He who now
sends his man to do such jobs, will be
likely to find the manner of the work
time lost, and the cost of the breakages
an expensive matter. Were IL not for
improved farm machinery, the MAORI.
ty of farmers would find farming very
unremunerative business. Our labor.
ers are for the most part foreign born,
always having worked abroad under q
superintendent and dndft a task To
exercise thought on their own account.
What we have said above does not APP
ply tosall, II Is true, but 1t does 70 many
and perhaps to a majority of this class.
The great want in American farming
to- day, Is skillful laborers. Men who
will assume some care and responsible
ty; men who will think u little if not
deeply. A friend remarked to us re-
Gently, that Of Irish laborers he prefer
red new hands just over TO those who
had been long In the country, because
the old hands were less willing to learn
were less careful, less attentive to busi.
ness, and were in every way less relia
ble.
We are sorry to see so many farmers
SONS leaving the farm and accepting In
some inferior plat I'm city or village
under the impression that farm work II
low business, fit only for an ignorant
and low class of laborers reckless, shift
less, and of no care or thought In farm
management and economy.
| In England, Scotland and Ireland
there are large number OF young mel
farmers SONS, brought up to understand
thoroughly the business of farming In
all its departments. They 20 out ai
farm managers, but few of them com,
to this country. There Is demand TO
such men. We hear constant inquir
les for farm managers, men who CAT
| take charge of q farm, who understand
all its details, and are to be trusted
The salary offered Is often considerable
but they are not easily found. Coul.
we raise farming 70 q profession, ant
induce our young men tn engage In IL
studying IL as a science, great advanta
ges would result to them and the coun
4 try at large. We have an example Q
tnlS III fTusSld. II FuS6Id udS Ieteuts'
startled the world by springing to tn
first rank among the continental pow
ers of Europe. In accounting upoi
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of Prussia, th
states she has annexed, and tue mum
Der of men she has put under arms
people forget the real force and trG
grahtlebr of nation. Taking the al
vantage of an uninterrupted peace n
fifty years, Prussia has developed he
agriculture, drains her marshes brough
vast tfacts Of uhfertile land under eul
tivatibh, provoked by sound Legislation
the increase of landed proprietors, ere
ated schools I'm every village, and rem
dered attendance to them compulsory
raised the level Of instruction in tile ri
raj districts organized q complete syt
tern tf AGRICULTURAL training which ex
tends from the village school to seien
ltific requirements. BY these method
she has raised the agricultural profess
ion, honored manual labor, and attrac,
ed Into the ranks of simple farmers tn
children of the best faniifies. - Ufic
Herald.
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