The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1870-09-02
..r,m the American Asr.cul;uFis'
walks md Talks on the Ehrh'

Walks and Talks on INC H"t '"'
There i, general impression that farm
inc r,ouircs very hard work. do not
l-,,or nf any kind Of " ork that is easy,
hut I would like 10 know where the
s,ccially hard " ork OH farm comes IN.
'fak. the corn crop; blowing tho sod is
sometimes rather hard work, bu. il lasts
only few days. and frequently, SO far
rs mere strength is required. boy VIII
pillow AZ well as a man. narrowing, ro!-
ling, and marking are not very back
breaking work. Planting with ma
chine requires brains rather than muscle,
and in planting by hand boy fifteen
wears old will sometimes keep up with
the men. lie may not do AS good work,
but ut any rate II shows that the men arc
not endangering their health with ex-i
haustiMg labor And so with clultlvat.
ing boy with steady horse. provided
Won do not give him las too frequently
happens) the oldest heaviest. ana poor
est cultivator Oh the farm, will generally
keep up with the men. !
liocing is very hard work; so hard
that the men sometimes require little
cider 10 enable them to keep up with the
women and boys, working in the same
field. Cutting up the crop is also heavy
work, but still there are few men who
feel ashamed TO have a boy keep with
them. Husking is such hard work that
il ia often lett TO the women and the
boys. The same remarks will apply to
the potato crop. Haying and harvest
ing are such hard work that the men
must have higher wages and better fare.
Riding on moving machine is not SO
very laborioue, If il was not for the fact
that the knives have 10 be ground and
sharpcned occasionally, and nuts screw
ed up and the bearings oiled. When l
rake up hay with sulky, steel-toothcd
rake. one Of may little children some
times goes with me on the rake. and ap-
parently enjoys riding up and down the
field as much rs any of her city cousins
would drive in Central Park. When
we had only one-horse tedding machines
man could use them without ovcrtax-
ing his strength. but now We have two
horse tedders and we expect one man 10
drive both horses L. ii not hard work
Cooking. opening, spreading out. turn.
ing, and recocking, are not traditionaliy
hard work. Pitching requires some
strength, but the work may be greatly
lessened and facilitated BY the exercise
Of little mechanical knowledge anG
common-sensc. Unloading is down
right hard work, but we have good fork
that do away with the necessity for it
Moving away in close barn is any
thing but agreeable. but in commodi
Gus barn. with hay fork, it requires
very short time to stow away load.
In harvesting grain. binding is hard
and when there are thistles, very disa
Creeable work, and it is time we got ri
of the latter, and machine to do th
former Pitching sheavcs is compare
lively light work. l would much rattle
pitch than load or unload. But where
the killing labor2 Is il in thrashing?-
With the exception Of feeding, if thel
is any really hard work about thrashin
YOU will generally find that it is asigne
to boy. had man leave me becau!
would not let him have three men
help him on the straw stack. We we
thrashing as we drew it from the fel
and one man did the pitching. If v
had been putting grain, straw, and all
q stack before thrashing, he would ha'
required only boy to help him. b
to stack the straw alone required TO
men. Such is the force of tradition.
Depend upon it, the hard work on
farm is a myrth-an idea Of the pa
and no young man need hesitate abo
devoting his life to agriculture on {
count Of the great labor and strength
CURED. If he has heath, industry, cn'
~, perseverance,, . cultivated mil
some mechanical ingenuity, and 60
stock Of common-sense, with big he
in his bosom that will never allow h
to neglect an animal, let him join
great army Of farmers. We need 81
men, and l cannot see why his chan
of success are not as great as they wo'
be II he adopts any other business.
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