The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-03-19

FARM WoRK.-The time for the farmers TO
begin the work of the year-to prepare for
steady work-to set their farm and implements
in order for the season-has arrived, and they
should be up and doing. Fences that have
been thrown down by fox hunters and others
during the Winter, should be reconstructed
put up again. Gates and other entrances to
fields that need re hanging or repairing in any
way should receive attention at once and be
put in good order for the future.
Ploughs, harrows, single-trees, hoes, mat
tocks &c.. that need it should should be repair
ed Immediately. The fuel necessary for the
Summer should be procured and put if posi-
bic, in dry place for use, that there may be no
stopping to attend to any of these things when
the busy days of plouhng, seeding or harvest
ing are upon us. System. matter so impor-
tant in every department of trade and bust
ness, is no less SO in farming. lie who con-
ducts his plantation with system and order is
generally ahead, with his work, of those who
do things haphazard and take hold of work at
loose ends He who is ready to go ahead with
the legitimate work of the season without being
disturbed by having to stop to attend to work
that should have been done on odd days and
idle times-getting wood for instanee-looses
time and gets his crops putin in due season,
while he, who has to quit planting corn or put
ting in oats or potatoes to procure fuel for the
use of the house or to thresh wheat to send to
MILL does not properly appreciate the utility of
system or the i'm portance of time, IN getting
his crop into the soil early practicable.
A day or two lost in this manner is calculated,
when the weather proves unfavorable, to de-
lay your planting a week two. Thus the
proper use of idle days in Winter and odd times
iu any event would give your crops the advan-
tage Of it may be one, two or three weeks
growth. This may be a matter of no small
importance, when you take into considers
tion the chances of your crops being drenched
by exceeding wet weather, or stinted in their
growth by severe drought, or becacse the sea-
son had expired before they have had a suffi
Client time to mature.
On farm ordinarily, from crOp-saving till
erop-planting time, there are many idle days
in which little or nothing is done but feeding
stock, threshing and the like. If the farmer
would make it a rule to find something to do
on each one of these days, the work of the sea-
son would be far on its way, when the warm
days of Spring rolled around. If these days
were used in examining the condition of the
farm implements of all kinds, and in having
them thoroughly repaired for constant use, the
farmer would not be annoyed and delayed in
his operations by discovering, to his astonish
ment, just as he was putting his horses to the
plough for the first time in the Spring, that
it is absolutely unfit for its work and that he
must unharness his team and take his plough
to the shop for repair. This is a delay no one
need repeat every time anyother implement in
the series is needed for use.
Make use of the odd moments as they pass
along and you will find at the end of the year
that you have saved days of time and added
much to the material worth of your crop and
of your years work.