Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-12-10
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A PRACTICAL FARMER.

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ing farmer--one who can take hold Of any
tool orfimplement used in agriculture, and
20 ahead with It through the day andthrough
the iob-one who can carry on the opera
,tions of a farm with the raw hands at COM
.msnd, and if naedfub conduct the whole
with bevy Of greenhorns. There is SO
much stress on this, and on the danger OF
anyone not intimate with the details Of
agriculture entering ,upen it, that many are
deferred from embsrking in any farming
undertaking, when perhaps the party thus
discouraged is really very much better a.
dapted for o frs: class agiculturist than
ninety mine ont of, q hundred of those who
have been bred to it {; for those raised on a
farm are sometimes so.blinded by the pre-
jpdices and antiquated customs handed from
one generation to another, that they do not
have thegood sense tossee through inherit
ed and inbred folly; and some lack cour-
age to rsform, for ii any attempt to abol-
ish old customs and introdnce new ones,
there Is shout as much opposition as there
always is by the old Tories Of England a
gainst every useful and enlightened altera-
ton of the laws. "a
These isgno. class Of men so slow; to ad-
vance as the regular home-bred farmer. 1t
was always So; for if brighter son than
usual is in the family, he becomes disgust
ed. With. the toiling, drudging habits of the
farm and takes to something else. 1t is
likely to be 50 in fnture, till farmers brains
can save, their muscles some, for why should
the practical farmer and all laborers under
him be called upon to work more hours than
any, other class of men in the world Why
cannot the minds of agriculturists devise
ways and means to do all that man ought
to do in twelve hours, or even in ten, ex-
cept in harvest2 Tradesmen, whose labor
is of. a lighter kind, do not continue on at
their work 80 many hours. Thehorses and
oxen could do: all they do now in less time
and be much better for it, but then the Gus
tom has been and is now, TO- be about all
these late hours, and though common sense
and every mans own feelings tell him that
men and cattle could do all they do or ever
can do, in ten hours steadfast, straightfor-
ward labor, yet longer days, and half the
time idling, is preferred. aL@
There is not the least doubt of there be-
ing hundreds of men who know nothing a
bout agriculture, and have never had any
opportunities of farming, or any correct
idea of farming, who would yet make ex-
cellent men Of business as agriculturists,
would eventually become better managers
than the practical farmer who derives his
origin from the land, and rise far superior
to any of the regular, common practical
farmers, for when once they master the
common routine of operations, and have
knowledge Of the mode of proceeding
through the whole season, they are more
open to conviction on any point where i'm
proved systems are introduced, and are free
from the educational prejudices ofthe home
bred farmer.
: A thorough man of business, whose ear
ly associations had not warped his judg-
ment, on hearing that his neighbors stock
was looking much better than his, would
not rest until he knew the reason; and, on
finding that all kinds OF animals were turn
ing out much better than ordinary, in To-
cality some hundreds of miles distant, would
visit that part of the country and ascertain
how the farmers manage there, and, if he
found they had made this improvement by
obtaining good males from reliable sources
and by generously treating the offspring
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food, comfortable shelter from heat, cold
and storms, he would Immediately adopt
the same, and probably, by having seen the
details of management on several places,
noted the different degrees of excellence in
the animals on different farms, and found
out cause and effect, his adoption of the
best of these procedures would enable him
to 20 on at once in more rapid advance
ment than any one Of these men had
done. -.
STAY AT HOME, BOYS.