Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-06-10

That mortal no trace Of Your brightness
can find,
Lost needles and pins?
Farmers and their Hired Hen.
Probably the difference between
farming and almost all other kinds Of
business is more distinctly marked IN
the relation existing betw cen the emf
ployer and his laborers than in.any
other way; and willie we fully appre
ciate the kindly relations which grow
out Of the friendly companonslip Of
isolated residences in the country, and
of employment at the same work, we
have been sometimes inclined to think
that if a shade more, rot OF supreliori
ty, but of authority, were made TO
mark the difference between the mas
ter and the man, farming might become
more systematic and more satistac-
tory business. In saying this, we
would by no means imply an approval
of supcrciliousness OF demeanor, OF un.
kind treatment or manner, or OF any
lessening of the most friendly relations
between two classes OF people, who
generally, except for the simple fact
that one is the employer and the other
the employed, stand on the same level
OF education and intelligence. We
only mean that no work can lie sue
cesStul that is not systematic. No sys-
tenn can be carried out in which there
is not one head, responsible Tor the
working of all subordinates, and for
the conforming Of all parts 10 the re-
quirements OF the whole.
There is Il great deal OF humbug in
the matter of the giving Of orders to
farm laborers. The fact exists that
the farmer is an employer, and TIE Ia
borer an emp1oge. lie is employed to
do certain things, and to do them
when and as he is told to. Ii he fails
in this respect he is, or deserves to be,
dismissed from the service. He IN
derStands this perfectly well, and SO
does the farmer, ana it is simple non
sense to convey orders in the honied
phrases-'Supposc You iced the oxen,
or, "l on may hoe corn awhile to-day, If
YOU have a mind to-. II 1t is the
mans business to teed the oxen, it is
the masters business to tell him to do
SO; and, il being perfectly we'll under
stood that the corn is to be hoed, and
hoed according to order. there is no
sense in seeming to leave it TO the dis
cretion Of the workman. Al order to
do a given piece OF work is Just as
much an order when put III one form
of words as when put in any other
and IN our view, it implies a lack OF
good sense on the part OF the MDorel
to suppose that he is not wiling to be
told in plain terms,-"To-day you will
hoe the corn or, at is time to feed
the oxen II General Grant had re-
piled to Shcridan's famous communion
ton by saying, "Iou may push things
] if you have mind to" much OF til,
force and formal authority Of his sim
pie Push things would have beel
lost.
Most of our American farm hand
have been American soldiers, and the
have become thoroughly used to bein,
told what they are to do III plain Enc
fish; and we know from our own eXpt
riencc that they would still prefer, j
their more peaceful occupation, to hay
all of their directions couchcd in III
mistal.able. though by no means dis
courteous, language. 1t may b
thought that this is Il small matter t
write an article about, but it IS not
The manner in which authority is ex
ercised over subordinates is an ntall
bic indication Of its value and cffec,
and the quiet determination which II
duces a farmer to tell his men in
manly and straightforward way wha
they are to do, indicates by no mean
that he considers himself better tina
they are, but that his work is benz
carried on according to an establishe
plan, and that his plan will be executes
with that promp'ncss and dispatc
which are Indispensable to success i
any walk OF lite, whether III the army
in the workshop, or on the farm
Men who are worth having will prcte
to have their Instructions given I,
them in definite form as instruction
and not as hints; and the most success
ful farmer, other things being eqFla'
will be the one who, in this respect
adopts the course that We have inli
Gated American Agriculturist
We take the following from til
monthly report of the Department c
Agricultural for March and April
Official statistics show that in tn
grand duchy OF IIessc there are, on 80
square miles, 1861 hives Of bees, be
ING 73 hives to the square mile in a
zcy, o3s hives to the squarcmie
in Offenbach, %; in Prussia, rs; schwa
razburg- Sonderhauscn, %; Bavaria, 4.
Sachsen- Altenburg, -; Sachsen Mei
ilburg 40; Schwartzhurg Ruho!stad
80; kingdom OF SaNony -; Sacher
Wcimer 81; nriemburg a. Babe
g.; Oidcnburg ~ Hanover Il
Aroyal decree in Prussia makes it II,
lawful 70 killorcontinn in cages the blu
gorge, red-gorge, nightingale, hedge
, sparrow, red start, wagtan, wren, BLACK
bird, titmouse, finch, linnet, sparrow
/, grccnfinch, thstlc-tinch, lapwing, swa
low, church-owl, starting, crow, ravcl
roller, at-snapper, sparrow haWI
cuckoo, wrey-netk, hlizzarl, hawl
t and owls, with the exception Of tt
horned owls. 1t IL likewise in.crdic