The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-08
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, What is 4 Days work.

Not few men who, having been
bred TO other business. enter more or
less largely into farming at or after
the meridian of life, are imposed upon
by those in their employ who fail to
do fair days wolhh, and yet demand
q price that should secure all that o
man is capable of accomplishing. We
propose to go over the whole ground,
and indicate THAT good man can do,
industrionsly working ten hours
Although, where men are hired by
the month, they are expected to make
In pleasant weather, about eleven
hours i'm the summer, as there. are
numberless days during the season
when, in consequence of rain or s0me'
other cause, they work less, ii they
work at all. Begin with
WINTER WORK.
In the matter of cutting wood in
the woods-an employment which a
vast number of men follow--one cord
Eand a Ealfo hard wood, cut four feet
long and split, and two cords of soft,
Ecut the same length, is all that an av-
erage man can do. If the trees arc
short and seraggy, he will do less, and,
under the most favorable circumstan-
ces, could not be expected to do any
more.
AT the wood-pilc, ten hours should
suffice to saw cord of fOur-f0Ot
wood into sixtccn-inch sticks, and
split it in readiness for the stove.
In the matter of threshing, another
winter employment, ten bushels of
rye, fifteen of barley, and twenty-five
of oats, is all that good man can av-
crage, working from sun to sun, any
day between the first of December and
the first of February. -
WORK IN THE SPRING.
Among the earliest things to be
done about farm is ovcrhauling the
barn-yard and stable manure" heap
ing it, as farmers say. At this busi-
business, with a good drag-hook and
light, four-tined fork, a man can ca.
silly do thirty carloads, or about l5
cords. We have known man who
threw out of a low hog yard, over q
four-foot fence, twenty-five heavy
loads OF this heaviest and hardest ma
nure, i'm nine hours, digging it all up
from the bottom the yard. This was
a good days work.
In the transportation of manure to
the fields, man can fill his own cart
(holding half a cord) and drive an OK
team half q mile to the lot, and take
out fifteen loads day, pulling it out
into heaps. If he dumps it, he can do
something more. tlfr.s t.3-,
In the matter of ploughing on fair
soils, when the sward is not terribly
tough, and the ground is not over
full of stones, with good yoke of
cattle, a man should plough, If the
day is cool, SO that they can be kept
steady, not far from an acre, and dc it
well. A coed heavy pair of horses
on the same land will do an acre and
a half, and when the soil is sandy or
free, they will do two acres and halt,
cutting a furrow six inches deep and
the usual width.
In the matter of spreading manure
when it has been pu. out into heaps,
thirty loads if we'll done, is a good
days work. ,t FItttL
Taking the common New England
style Of planting, man, after the
ground is furrowed, should drop his
handful of fertilizing material, drop
his corn, and cover at least halt acre
a day, if the ground is well prepared
beforehand, so that soft earth may be
readily obtained to cover the corn or
potatoes Gf they ale planted in hills),
as the case may be.
This brings us to as